No. 5/6 MBB Set to Host Mississippi Valley State in Season Opener

Fri Nov 4 17:46:15 CDT 2022

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BAYLOR BEARS (0-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)

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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE (0-0) vs. 5/6 BAYLOR (0-0)
November 7, 2022 • 11:00 a.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE (0-0)
Location: Itta Bena, Miss.
Conference/Affiliation: SWAC
Head Coach: George Ivory (MVSU, 1988)

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• No. 5/6 Baylor hosts Mississippi Valley State at 11 am CT on Tuesday on 'Future Bears Day', over 6,000 kids from 33 local schools will be in attendance.

• With the 11 am CT tip-off, BU and MVSU will be the first two teams to play in the 2022-23 season.

• BU has won 15 of its last 16 season openers, averaging 101.3 points per game in its last three.

• Baylor is 63-1 all time against teams from the SWAC.

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

• Baylor is 38-3 in non-conference games over the last three seasons.

• Entering his 20th season at BU, Scott 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.

• Drew enters 2022-23 just 3 wins away from 400 wins at Baylor

• The Bears are 55-9 over the last 2 seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor is 81-13 over the last 3 seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor's streak of 10-consecutive postseason appearances is tied as the nation's 6th-longest active streak.

• BU won a school-record 26 regular-season games and finished with its 2nd-most conference wins (14) last season.

• Baylor is playing its 620th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (312) have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's rebuild.

• Baylor is 39-4 vs. unranked teams over the last 2 seasons.

• Baylor's 55-9 record over the last 2 seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 teams, and the Bears' 81-13 record over the last 3 seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (89-6).

• BU is playing its 311th 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 296 of 433 games.

• BU won 10+ conference wins for a 9th time in the last 13 seasons after doing so 8 times in 103 years.

• Baylor has won 13+ conference games in 3-straight seasons after never doing so prior to 2019-20.

• Adam Flagler returns for his senior season, coming off a career year where he scored in double-figures 25 times. He has scored 10+ points in 22 of his last 24 games played.

• Flagler was a unanimous Preseason All-Big 12 selection, after being named to the All-Big 12 second team last season.

• The senior was named a preseason Third-Team All-American by CBS Sports and The Almanac, and one of two Big 12 players on the Jerry West Award watch list.

• Heralded freshman Keyonte George, the highest-ranked recruit in program history, is set to make his Baylor debut.

• The fifth McDonalds All-American in program history, George was named the Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year.

• BU is just the third program in Big 12 history to have back-to-back preseason Freshmen of the Year.

• Baylor enters 2022-23 as the preseason Big 12 favorite for the second time in three seasons.

For the full version of Baylor's game notes, click here<file:///documents/2022/11/4/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_22-23_1_MS_Valley.pdf>.

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