WACO, Tex. — The faithful descended on Baylor University earlier this month, their cars stalled in traffic on University Parks Drive.

They came for another athletic extravaganza, a smorgasbord of sport that featured three nationally ranked teams (women’s and men’s basketball and equestrian), one that is still undefeated (women’s basketball) and one that is 6-2 (baseball). Here, at the world’s largest Baptist university, they no longer view such dates as unusual. Now, they call them Saturday.

This particular Saturday ended with Brittney Griner, the best player on the best women’s basketball team in perhaps the most successful (and surprising) athletic department in the country, falling on her back, performing snow angels in the green-and-gold confetti covering the court. Minutes later, her coach, Kim Mulkey, felt it necessary to remind the crowd that Big 12 championships, like the one the Lady Bears had secured, are difficult to obtain.

How life has changed. In a city scarred by the deadly 1993 confrontation between federal agents and the Branch Davidian group, at a university marred by decades of athletic ineptitude, where a former basketball player killed his former teammate in 2003, it can now be suggested that Baylor sports fans are spoiled by success.