  An analysis is presented of the ground state baryon's (N and \Delta) masses
and axial couplings in the combined 1/Nc and chiral expansions. Renormalization
and alternative power counting schemes are discussed to one loop (NNLO). An
application is made to lattice QCD results for non-strange baryon masses and
the nucleon axial coupling as functions of the pion mass. This work represents
a brief summary of a more extensive analysis to be presented elsewhere.
