No. 5 MBB Heads West for the Continental Tire Main Event

Wed Nov 16 14:38:54 CST 2022

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BAYLOR BEARS (3-0)
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Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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16/14 Virginia (2-0) vs. 5/6 BAYLOR (3-0)
November 18, 2022 • 6 p.m. CT
Las Vegas, Nevada • T-Mobile Arena (18,000)

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VIRGINIA CAVALIERS (2-0)
Location: Charlottesville, Va.
Conference/Affiliation: ACC
Head Coach: Tony Bennett (Green Bay, 1992)
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STORY LINES

• No. 5/6 Baylor hosts heads to the Continental Tire Main Event in Las Vegas, where they will open with the second all-time meeting between BU and Virginia.

• Monday marks the 2nd all-time meeting between the Bears and Cavaliers. They last met Dec. 28, 1968 with BU winning 79-61.

• The game will feature two of the last three national champions. UVA Beat Texas Tech 85-77 in the 2019 National Championship Game, while BU dispatched Gonzaga 86-70 in 2021.

• This is the earliest BU has faced a ranked team in a season since they hosted No. 4 Oregon on Nov. 15, 2016.

• Baylor is 22-6 against AP top 25 teams over the last three seasons, including a13-4 mark against top 25 teams away from home.

• BU has won 18 of its last 20 non-conference games at road or neutral sites.

• Having won the Battle 4 Atlantis last season, Baylor is 39-12 in regular-season tournaments during the Drew era, including 26-4 since 2013-14.

• Baylor is making it's first appearance in Las Vegas since they opened the 2020-21 campaign in the Vegas Bubble with wins over Louisiana and Washington, They would go on to win the National Championship that next April.

• The Bears are 5-1 in their last six games played in Las Vegas.

• With a 95-62 win over Northern Colorado on Monday, Scott Drew became one of 10 active coaches with 400 wins at his current institution.

• Drew has a winning percentage of .705 (366-153) 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.

• With a 117-53 win in the season opener against Mississippi Valley State (11/7), BU notched the third-largest margin of victory in program history, and 117 points were 1 shy of a Ferrell Center record.

• In an 87-70 win over Norfolk State, BU shot 38 three-pointers, the second-most in the Scott Drew era and the fifth-most in school history.

• Adam Flagler notched his third-career double-double to lift BU to a 95-62 win over UNC, to improve to 3-0 (11/14).

• BU has scored 299 points through the first three games, the most in program history.

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

• Baylor is 41-3 in non-conference games over the last three seasons.

• The Bears are 58-9 over the last 2-plus seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor is 84-13 over the last 3-plus seasons, the nation's 2nd-best record by a Power-5 team (Kansas).

• 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 623rd game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (314) have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's rebuild.
Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF/)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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