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Feb. 1, 2002

WACO, Texas -

#13 Baylor (1-0) vs. #8 SMU (2-0)
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2001, 11 a.m. , Dallas, Texas

The Bears, after opening the season with a victory over then-No. 14 Mississippi State, will get the opportunity to see how good they really are when they take on No. 8 SMU on Sat., Feb. 2 at 11:00 a.m. The match will be held at T-Bar in Dallas.

SMU is 2-0 on the season and recently defeated No. 17 TCU, 4-3, and posted a 5-2 win over Hawaii Pacific in their season opener.

BECKER NAMED PRESEASON ALL-BIG 12...
Freshman Benjamin Becker was Baylor's lone preseason All-Big 12 selection as voted by the conference coaches. Becker, a native or Orscholz, Germany, is currently ranked No. 3 nationally, the highest ever for a Baylor player. Becker finished the fall season with a 14-4 record and made it to the finals of the ITA Indoor Nationals.

BAYLOR IN THE RANKINGS...
According to the latest team rankings released Wed., Jan. 30 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), the Baylor men's tennis team moved up three spots from No. 16 to No. 13 in the country.

Matt Knoll's men's team, currently 1-0 on the season, is the Big 12's highest ranked team. They defeated then-No. 14 Mississippi State last week by a score of 4-3. The men will travel to Dallas on Saturday (Feb. 2) to play No. 8 SMU.

In the ITA Top 100 individual rankings released on Dec. 12, three Bears received rankings. Freshman Benjamin Becker checked in at No. 3, newcomer Markus Hornung, a sophomore, is No. 25 and sophomore Reiner Neurohr ranks No. 91. In doubles, three teams made the rankings. Hornung and Neurohr raned highest at No. 8 while Becker and Hornung are No. 19 and Zoltan Papp and Nathan McGregor are No. 57.