No. 7 Baylor MBB Readies to Host McNeese in Wednesday Matinee

Tue Nov 22 13:43:16 CST 2022

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BAYLOR BEARS (4-1)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
Roster<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | Game Notes (PDF)<file:///documents/2022/11/22/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_22-23_6_McNeese.pdf>
McNEESE (2-3) vs. 7/7 BAYLOR (4-1)
November 23, 2022 • 3:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • The Ferrell Center (10,284)

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MCNEESE COWBOYS (2-3)
Location: Lake Charles, La.
Conference/Affiliation: Southland
Head Coach: John Aiken (Southern Maine, 2008)
Roster<https://mcneesesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster?path=mbball> | Stats<https://mcneesesports.com/sports/2008/7/28/955329359?path=mbball> <https://uapblionsroar.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | <file:///documents/2022/11/14/111322_UNC_MBSK_Notes.pdf> Game Notes (PDF)<file:///documents/2022/11/22/McNeese_MBBG6_Baylor.pdf>

Story Lines

• No. 7/7 Baylor returns home to host the McNeese State Cowboys at the Ferrell Center in the first meeting between the two schools since Nov. 14, 2014.

• Fresh off a win against No. 8 UCLA in the Continental Tire Main Event (11/20), BU is now 11-1 in its last 12 games against AP Top-10 teams.

• LJ Cryer set career highs in points (28), field goals (10), rebounds (4) and minutes (35) against 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 is 23-7 against AP top 25 teams over the last four seasons, including a14-5 mark against top 25 teams away from home.

• Baylor has had at least one player score 20+ points in seven-straight games.

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

• BU will celebrate Drew's 400th win at Baylor with a pregame ceremony on Wednesday against McNeese.

• Drew has a winning percentage of .700 (366-154) 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 75-4 in its last 79 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.

• Baylor is 140-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 112-8 since 2007-08.

• Baylor is 56-8 in home games against unranked opponents (including Big 12 play) since 2016-17.

• Baylor is 41-4 vs. unranked teams over the last three seasons.

• 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.

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

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

• The Bears are 60-10 over the last three seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor is 85-14 over the last four seasons, the nation's best winning percentage among Power-5 teams.

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

• Baylor is playing its 625th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (316) have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's rebuild.

•BU was ranked in two of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, BU has been ranked in 301 of 438 games.
Click here<file:///documents/2022/11/22/22-23.Weekly.Release.pdf> for Big 12 Game Notes.

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