{"id":18224,"date":"2025-06-27T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18224\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:20:10","slug":"baylor-basketball-announce-fort-worth-matchup-against-louisville-in-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18224\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor basketball announce Fort Worth matchup against Louisville in 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\">Baylor<\/a> men\u2019s basketball <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/news\/2025\/6\/26\/mens-basketball-mbb-announces-regular-season-showdown-with-louisville.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/news\/2025\/6\/26\/mens-basketball-mbb-announces-regular-season-showdown-with-louisville.aspx\">announced<\/a> Friday that the Bears will face Louisville next February in a non-conference match-up in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Set to be just the second time the two programs have met, the game will be played at Fort Worth\u2019s Dickies Arena on Feb. 14, 2026. In the only previous matchup between the two teams No. 20 Baylor beat the Cardinals 66-63 to win the 2016 edition of the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Scott Drew\u2019s squad is coming off a 2024-25 season that saw the Bears go 20-15 to earn a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They beat 8-seed Mississippi State in a close one before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/2025\/03\/23\/baylor-overwhelmed-by-no-1-seed-duke-cooper-flagg-as-bears-miss-out-on-sweet-16-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/2025\/03\/23\/baylor-overwhelmed-by-no-1-seed-duke-cooper-flagg-as-bears-miss-out-on-sweet-16-again\/\">losing to Cooper Flagg\u2019s Duke in the second round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Next season\u2019s Bears will have to contend with losing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/2025\/06\/25\/baylors-vj-edgecombe-selected-no-3-overall-by-the-philadelphia-76ers-in-2025-nba-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/2025\/06\/25\/baylors-vj-edgecombe-selected-no-3-overall-by-the-philadelphia-76ers-in-2025-nba-draft\/\">star player V.J. Edgecombe who was drafted No. 3 overall<\/a> by the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA draft. Scott Drew\u2019s incoming recruiting class is ranked No. 32 in the country by 247Sports and headlined by 5-star forward Tounde Yessoufou from California.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__P4zn3 inline-block pr-8 shrink-0 w-auto flex flex-col\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2025\/06\/26\/big-12-paypal-announce-partnership-to-facilitate-direct-student-athlete-payments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__6H-hI dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IPJ2KRQZNJC6ZM4F3SKWUCF2IM.jpg\" alt=\"Logos for several Big 12 schools are seen during the Big 12 Media Days at AT&amp;T Stadium,...\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conference\u2019s agreement with the payment giant reflects a whole new era in college sports.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__P4zn3 inline-block pr-8 shrink-0 w-auto flex flex-col\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/06\/26\/moms-take-centerstage-at-nba-draft-as-sons-appreciate-all-the-effort-theyve-put-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__6H-hI dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WGEBMV25CBBSHDBRXUHD7N5OTM.jpg\" alt=\"Cooper Flagg hugs family members after being selected first overall by the Dallas Mavericks...\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mothers of Mavs\u2019 top pick Cooper Flagg and Baylor\u2019s VJ Edgecombe were both on hand in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Baylor coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baylor men\u2019s basketball announced Friday that the Bears will face Louisville next February in a non-conference match-up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,3917,10857,7371,7372,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-18224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baylor-bears","10":"tag-colleges","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114753648959992816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}