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WACO, Texas - With it already known that the 2015 Big 12 Championships and the NCAA Championships are coming to Waco, Baylor men's tennis head coach Matt Knoll announced the rest of his team's 2014-15 schedule on Wednesday.

Overall, BU's schedule currently features eight fall individual tournaments, two spring individual tournaments and 17 dual-matches. The Bears will host 12 opponents in the dual-match season, while traveling for the five remaining matches.

After a 13-year run, BU's fall season will not include the hosting of the Baylor HEB Intercollegiate. However, the Bears will begin their fall season at the Rice Fall Invitational in Houston, Sept. 19-21. As that event is wrapping other players are scheduled to take part in the USTA Napa Valley $50K Challenger in Napa, Calif., Sept. 20-28.

Five Bears have already been selected to compete in the next event, the ITA All-American Championships, Sept. 27-Oct. 5 in Tulsa, Okla. The fall individual season continues with the ITF Futures of Mansfield $15K that will run Oct. 10-19.

Baylor will head south to College Station, Texas, for the USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championships on Oct. 18-21, after hosting the event a year ago. The Bears will wrap the month of October with players competing at the ATP Charlottesville $50K Challenger, Oct. 24-Nov. 1, in Charlottesville, Va.

BU will take a break from facing outside competition and host its only fall event with the annual Alumni Match scheduled for Nov. 2.

Athletes, who have qualified in the regional competition, will then travel to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate in New York, Nov. 6-9, while other Bears will compete in the Kramer Club Invitational, Nov. 7-9, in Rolling Hills, Calif., to complete the fall season.

The 2015 portion of Baylor's schedule starts on Jan. 2 with the USTA $10K Florida Futures in Plantation, Fla., which runs til Jan. 11.

As they have for the past several years, the Bears will close out individual play by traveling to the Sherwood Collegiate Cup in Westlake, Calif., Jan. 16-19.

Baylor opens its dual-match season with the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, which will serve as the qualifying rounds of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. BU faces Tulane at the Hurd Tennis Center on Jan. 24 and the winner of that match will play the winner of Drake and Miami on Jan. 25.

BU continues its home stand by welcoming Louisiana-Lafayette on Jan. 31, before playing its first road dual-match at Tulsa on Feb. 7.

If they win both matches of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend, the Bears will again take part in ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 13-16.

Following the indoor championships, Baylor will play six straight matches vs. team that finished in the top-50 of the final 2014 ITA team rankings. BU begins that test at home against No. 42 Purdue on Feb. 20, before hosting No. 3 UCLA (Feb. 22) and No. 4 Virginia (March 1).

Playing its final two road non-conference matches, the Bears will travel to No. 21 Memphis for a match on March 8, before taking on No. 34 Mississippi on March 10.

Baylor's final non-conference matches before the start of league play will come at the Oracle Collegiate Cup, March 17-19. For a second year, Baylor will host teams as part of the BNP Paribas event in Indian Wells, Calif. This year's teams that are scheduled to attend include USC, Oklahoma, California, Tulsa, BYU, Columbia, and Purdue.

Big 12 Conference play begins for Baylor with TCU coming to Waco on March 24. The Bears will then play their only scheduled doubleheader of the year by hosting Incarnate Word and UT Arlington on March 29. BU's final non-conference match of the season will be April 7 vs. Seminole College at the Hurd Tennis Center.

Baylor hosts NCAA runner-up Oklahoma on April 10, before playing its last regular season home match with Oklahoma State on April 12. The Bears play at Texas on April 15 and then wrap up their regular season at Texas Tech on April 18.

The 2015 Big 12 Championships will be held in Waco on April 24-26, while the first and second rounds of the NCAA Championship will be held at select campus sites, May 10-11. The final 16 teams in the NCAA Championship will come to Waco, on May 14-19, to determine the NCAA champion. Following the team portion, the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships will be May 20-25 at the Hurd Tennis Center as well.

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