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Baylor families - this one's for you!!

Own a Baylor University basketball signed by Women's Head Coach Kim Mulkey.

Baylor Lady Bears head coach Kim Mulkey has won three NCAA national championships, a combined 21 Big 12 regular-season and tournament titles, achieving 600 career wins faster than any other D1 men’s or women’s coach, and the pinnacle of individual basketball honors – she was named to the 2020 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class.

Mulkey's three NCAA women’s basketball championships as the head coach of Baylor and championship as a player when Louisiana Tech won the inaugural Women’s March Madness tournament in 1982 gives her the rare distinction of being the only person in women’s college basketball history to win an NCAA championship as a player (La. Tech), an assistant coach (La. Tech), and head coach (Baylor).

With already an astonishing resume as a player and assistant coach at Louisiana Tech, Baylor hired Mulkey on April 4, 2000, to overhaul a program that had just seven wins in the 1999-2000 season and 13 losing seasons in the previous 17.

Mulkey’s Lady Bears became just the third program in NCAA history to have at least three national titles when Baylor beat Notre Dame, 82-81 on April 7, 2019. The victory placed Baylor in the most prestigious of companies, joining UConn and Tennessee as the only programs with at least three.

Nearly five years to the day that Baylor brought in Mulkey, she delivered the athletics department’s first women’s NCAA title when the Lady Bears’ 22-point victory over Michigan State on April 5, 2005, capped an improbable run that saw BU take down three No. 1 seeds. Seven years later, the Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims-led Lady Bears made history with the first 40-0 season in NCAA history, capped with a win over Notre Dame in the 2012 finals. Keeping with the theme of sevens, Baylor’s Chloe Jackson hit a game-winning scoop layup to down the Fighting Irish in the 2019 title matchup once again with 3.9 seconds remaining.

The COVID-shortened 2019-20 season kept Baylor from defending its national title and its Big 12 Tournament championship, but the Lady Bears collected a 28-2 record, took home their 10th consecutive Big 12 regular-season championship and were a projected No. 1 seed heading into the eventually-cancelled 2020 NCAA Tournament.

Mulkey has also done a phenomenal job of preparing student-athletes for the next level of competition and in life. Of all the Lady Bear players who have started and finished their career at Baylor, those student-athletes have a 100 percent graduation rate. In addition, Baylor has had nine 1st-round draft picks to the WNBA, 19 WNBA draft picks overall, and dozens of Lady Bears who have played professionally overseas.

She is the only person in basketball to have won a national championship as a player, assistant coach and head coach. Mulkey is also the only women’s basketball coach, and one of only three in men’s and women’s basketball, to have a national title as a player and head coach, joining Bob Knight and Dean Smith.

Eight times, Mulkey has taken home “National Coach of the Year” honors from various entities, and she has been selected as the Big 12 Coach of the Year eight times. She’s taken home the New York Athletic Club’s Winged Foot Award after each national championship as a head coach.

Mulkey’s Lady Bears have made the NCAA Tournament in 18 of 19 opportunities under her tutelage, they have earned four trips to the NCAA Final Four, nine trips to the Elite Eight, and 14 trips to the NCAA Sweet 16, including 11-straight trips.

As a player, Mulkey led the Lady Techsters to a 130-6 (.956) record, two national titles and four Final Fours from 1980-84. During that time, the 5-foot-4 playmaker, known for her spectacular passes and French braids, also led Louisiana Tech to its first two national championships (1981 and 1982) and was a part of the USA’s Gold medal-winning team at both the 1984 Olympics and the 1983 Pan American Games.

In addition, the summa cum laude scholar was a two-time Academic All-American as a business major. In recognition of her success in the classroom and on the basketball court, Mulkey was inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Hall of Fame in June 2003.

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