No. 1 Baylor MBB Set to Host Top-20 Matchup vs. No. 19 Texas Tech

Mon Jan 10 18:01:01 CST 2022

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#1/1 BAYLOR (15-0, 3-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
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Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1625> (Butler, 1993)

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#19/19 TEXAS TECH (11-3, 1-1) vs. #1/1 BAYLOR (15-0, 3-0)
Jan. 11, 2022 • 6:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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#19/19 TEXAS TECH (11-3, 1-1)
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Mark Adams
 (Texas Tech, 1979)

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STORY LINES

• No. 1 Baylor returns home to host No. 19 Texas Tech at 6 p.m. CT Tuesday on ESPN2.

• BU has the nation's longest winning streak (21), with 9 at neutral sites, 2 on the road and all by 5+ points.

• Baylor looks to tie the 2nd-longest winning streak in Big 12 history (22 by Kansas in 1996-97).

• There have been 4 winning streaks of 20+ in the Big 12's 26-year history – 23 by Baylor in 2019-20, 22 by Kansas in 1997-98, the current 21-game Baylor streak and 20 by Kansas in 2007-08.

• Baylor is the first program to start consecutive seasons 15-0 since Syracuse in 2010-11 and 2011-12.

• Baylor is seeking its school-record 7th-consecutive win against ranked opponents. The Bears are 19-3 against ranked teams over the last 3 seasons, including 13-2 in the last 2 years.

• BU has won a school-record 22-straight home games, averaging a +26.3 scoring margin in those wins.

• Baylor is 23-9 vs. Texas Tech since 2006, including a 14-2 mark in Waco in that span.

• BU swept the series each of the last 2 years and is seeking its first 5-game winning streak vs. Tech.

• Baylor has won 9 of the last 10 series meetings in Waco, including an 88-73 win on March 7, 2021.

• Baylor is 34-1 at home over the last 3 seasons, with the lone loss by 3 to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.

• Baylor's 31-4 Big 12 conference record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• Baylor has been No. 1 ranked in 4 of the last 6 seasons (Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas are only others).

• Tuesday is Baylor's 22nd all-time game as a No. 1-ranked team – BU is 19-2 while ranked No. 1.

• For the second-straight season, Baylor is 1 of the nation's final 2 undefeated teams.

• Baylor's bench has out-scored the opponents' bench in 12 of 15 games and by an average of 30-20.

• BU is allowing only 6.2 second-chance points per game, while scoring 13.1 second-chance points.

• Baylor is averaging 10 more field goal attempts per game than its opponents (BU 64, OPP 54).

• Baylor is the nation's only team ranked top-25 in scoring offense (12th) and scoring defense (19th).

• Baylor ranks top-13 nationally in scoring margin (3rd, +23.3), assists (9th, 18.4), steals (10th, 10.3), turnovers forced (10th, 18.4), turnover margin (11th, +5.6), rebounding margin (12th, +9.3),

field goal percentage (13th, .495) and offensive rebound percentage (6th, 39.2).

• Baylor's defense has recorded 7+ steals and 13+ turnovers forced in all 15 games this season.

• BU's 47-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is the nation's 3rd-longest behind Gonzaga and Villanova.

• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 39-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 36 of those).

• Baylor has been ranked in all 25 spots in the AP Top 25 at some point in the last 7 years.

• BU has led by at least 4 points in all 75 games since the start of the 2019-20 season and built a double-digit lead in 66 of those games, including 42 of 45 games since the start of last season.

• Adam Flagler (Player of the Week) and James Akinjo (Newcomer of the Week) swept this week's Big 12 awards. It's the 7th time Baylor players have won both awards in the same week.

• BU has defeated 3 currently top-15 ranked teams this season – No. 10 Michigan State (75-58 in Battle 4 Atlantis title game), No. 14 Villanova (57-36 in Waco) and No. 15 Iowa State (77-72 in Ames).

• Drew has swept AP and coaches' Big 12 Coach of the Year honors each of the last two seasons.

QUICK HITS

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 385 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• Baylor's 43-2 record over the last two seasons is the nation's best, and the Bears' 69-6 record over the last three seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (74-5).

• Baylor's streak of 18-straight wins by 8+ points was snapped in a 5-point win at Iowa State. BU was the first returning national champion to win its first 12 games by 8+ points since 1990-91 UNLV.

• Baylor has won 36 straight non-conference games (+23.2 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2019.

• BU ranks 6th nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound pct (39.2), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• BU is playing its 294th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, BU has been ranked in 278 of 415 games.

• Baylor and Kansas are the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.

• Baylor's streak of 9 consecutive postseasons is tied as the nation's 7th-longest active streak.

• Baylor has won 20+ games in 12 of the last 14 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).

• Baylor is 88-5 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (58-2 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 91% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (205-21).

• BU is 69-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 260-99 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 260 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (297).

• Baylor is 351-146 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.

• Five of Baylor's players have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Two after transferring to BU (Flagler, Tchamwa Tchatchoua), one before transferring (Bonner) and two as freshmen — Turner and Langston Love.

• Ten of Baylor's 11 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (16 of last 17 seasons).

• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (7 NCAAs, 2 NITs).

• Baylor has the nation's 9th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 977 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).

• BU is 7-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league. Combined with a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Series and 1-0 in the Big 12/Big East Battle, Baylor is 11-2 in conference challenges.

• Baylor has won 8 tournament titles under Drew – 2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 & 2021 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic, 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational and 2021 NCAA Championship.

BEARS MAKING BIG 12 HISTORY

• In the last three seasons, Baylor has recorded the longest winning streak in the Big 12 Conference's 26-year history (23 in 2019-20), the 3rd-longest in Big 12 history (21 active in 2021-22) and tied the 5th-longest (18 in 2020-21).

LONGEST WINNING STREAKS IN BIG 12 HISTORY

1. 23 – Baylor, 2019-20

2. 22 – Kansas, 1996-97

3. 21 – Baylor, 2021-22

4. 20 – Kansas, 2007-08

T5. 18 – Baylor, 2020-21; Kansas 2016-17; Kansas 2012-13; Kansas, 2010-11

T9. 17 – Kansas 2015-16; Baylor 2011-12, Texas 2009-10

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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