No. 12 MBB Returns to Action Against Nicholls

Tue Dec 27 13:57:52 CST 2022

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BAYLOR BEARS (9-2)
Location: Waco, Texas
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Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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NICHOLLS (6-6) vs. 12/13 BAYLOR (9-2)
Dec. 28, 2022 • 7:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • The Ferrell Center (10,284)

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NICHOLLS COLONELS (6-6, 1-0)
Location: Thibodaux, La.
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Head Coach: Austin Claunch (Emory, 2012)
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• No. 12/13 Baylor hosts Nicholls in its final game before conference play begins

• Baylor has won 12-straight home games, tied for the fifth-longest home winning streak in program history.

• The top-eight Ferrell Center winning streaks have all come under Scott Drew and five of the top eight have come in the last seven years.

• BU is 2-0 all time against Nicholls, and the two are meeting for the second-straight season.

• The Bears are the best offense in the Big 12 (10th best in the nation) according to Ken Pom (114.2 Adj. Efficiency rating), averaging 80.6 points per game.

• BU has won 70-straight when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent (last loss March 2, 2019 at K-State).

• Baylor is 79-4 in its last 83 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.

• Baylor is 24-7 against AP top 25 teams over the last four seasons, the nation's best mark against ranked teams. 15 of those wins came against top 25 teams away from home.

• With its 64th consecutive week in the AP Top 25, Baylor has the nations second-longest streak (Gonzaga 122).

• BU held NWST to 48 points and improved to 44-1 under Drew when holding an opponent under 50 points (12/20).

• The 12th-ranked Bears spent a school record 54-straight weeks top-10 ranked in the AP Poll (12/19/19 -12/5/22).

• Keyonte George scored a game-high 19 points to lift BU to a win over Washington St., its seventh-straight win over a Pac-12 foe (12/18)

• Down its two leading scorers, George and Langston Love and went for 20+ points each to lift the Bears past Tarleton (12/6).

• BU held the nation's best offense in Gonzaga, to a season-low 63 points in a 64-63 win in the inaugural Peacock Classic (12/2).

• LJ Cryer set career highs in points (28), field goals (10), rebounds (4) and minutes (35) against No. 8 UCLA (11/20).

• Cryer's 23.5 points per game in Las Vegas earned his first-career Big 12 Player of the Week Award.

• Baylor has had at least one player score 20+ points in seven of the last 12 games.

• Adam Flagler and Keyonte George have three 20-point games in that stretch, followed by Cryer (2), Jalen Bridges (1), and Love (1).

• With a 95-62 win over Northern Colorado (11/14), Scott Drew became one of 10 active coaches with 400+ wins at his current institution.

• Drew has a winning percentage of .700 (371-155) since BU's first year with no scholarship restrictions in 2007-08.

• In his 20th season at BU, Drew is coming off Big 12 Coach of the Year honors for a 3rd-straight season, joining Gene Keady (Purdue, 94-96) and Jay Wright (Villanova, 14-16) as the only high-major coaches to accomplish the feat.

• Baylor is 45-5 vs. unranked teams over the last three seasons.

• Baylor is playing its 631st game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (322) have been as a ranked team.

• BU was ranked in two of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew.

• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 10 of 13 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.

Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF/)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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