The California Baptist Lancers women's basketball team is a basketball team that represents
California Baptist University
California Baptist University (Cal Baptist or CBU) is a private Christian university in Riverside, California. Founded in 1950 as California Baptist College, it is affiliated with the California Southern Baptist Convention, an organization affil ...
in
Riverside
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,
California
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, United States. The California Baptist Lancers compete as members of the
Division I Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...
(WAC). They are currently led by head coach
Jarrod Olson and play at the
CBU Events Center
The CBU Events Center is a sports arena in Riverside, California. It opened in 2017 and has a capacity of 5,050.
The 153,000-square-feet facility is home to the Cal Baptist Lancers California Baptist Lancers men's basketball, men's and California ...
.
In the 2020-21 season, the Lancers won the WAC regular season championship with a perfect 14-0 record. Despite being ineligible for the
NCAA tournament due to being in the third year of a four-year transition from Division II to Division I, they were allowed by the WAC to compete in the
conference tournament. They won the semifinal and final matchups against New Mexico State and Grand Canyon, respectively, by 43 combined points. Under normal circumstances, Cal Baptist would have thus secured the automatic bid to the
2021 NCAA tournament from the conference, but due to its ineligible status was not allowed to participate in the NCAA tournament or any other NCAA-sponsored postseason tournament. Utah Valley, the WAC's second-place finisher in the regular season, received the WAC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament (the program's first). The Lancers finished the year with a 26-1 record.
Postseason
NAIA Division I
The Lancers made the
NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament
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two times, with a combined record of 1–2.
NCAA Division I
The Lancers won the
2023 Women's Basketball Invitational tournament.
See also
*
California Baptist Lancers men's basketball
The California Baptist Lancers men's basketball team represents California Baptist University in the Western Athletic Conference. The team made the jump into Division I basketball on July 1, 2018. They are currently led by head coach Rick Croy a ...
References
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