Basketball
In men's basketball, Baylor and A&M have competed since the 1914–15 debut season of the Southwest Conference. With 211 games played, A&M leads the series with a 136 wins, 71 losses and 4 ties. Since the formation of the Big 12, the teams have followed parallel paths. Both spent the early years of the conference as lower-division teams (they combined for one NIT appearance and zero NCAA appearances from 1996 to 2004, and both suffered winless conference seasons during that span). However, in more recent years, they have grown into Big 12 contenders, with A&M reaching the NCAA's six straight years between 2006 and 2011 and Baylor reaching both in 2008 and 2010, with elite eight appearance in both years. In 2011, Baylor did not reach postseason play but swept the series with the NCAA Tourney-Bound Aggies.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)