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    Crowd turns out to cheer on Baylor, the undefeated NCA women's champs

    These are heady times at Baylor.A few months ago, quarterback Robert Griffin III became Baylor's first Heisman Trophy winner. In March, the men's basketball team advanced to the NCAA round of 16 for the second time in three years. Together, those two teams won 40 games and lost 11 over this year.Fundraising efforts are going gangbusters and applications to enroll are up.And then there are the Lady Bears, Kim Mulkey's women's basketball team that just went 40-0 to win the program's second NCAA championship. Player of the year Brittany Griner led the way to an 80-61 rout Tuesday night against Notre Dame.And all five starters are expected back next season.Some 2,000 people turned out Wednesday at the Ferrell Center — Baylor's home arena, where the Lady Bears won 19 games this season and have gone 184-19 during Mulkey's 12 years at the school — to welcome the team back to Waco after its championship game win in Denver."You do not win championships with one player, two players," Mulkey told...

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