No. 20 MBB Continues Home-stand Sunday Against Gardner-Webb

[Roberts, Matt]

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20/17 BAYLOR BEARS (2-0, 0-0 Big 12)
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20/17 BAYLOR (2-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs. GARDNER-WEBB (1-1, 0-0 Big South)
Nov. 12, 2023 • 4:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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GARDNER-WEBB RUNNIN' BULLDOGS
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Story lines

• No. 20 Baylor plays host to Gardner-Webb in the first-ever meeting between the two schools

• The Bears are 4-0 all-time against teams from the Big South.

• BU's last meeting against a Big South opponent was a 73-57 win over USC Upstate in December of 2012.

• Baylor is 55-6 in home games over the last four seasons.

• Sunday marks one of just six remaining home games scheduled for the Ferrell Center this season.

• Baylor's game against Gardner-Webb will mark the third of four games in a seven-day stretch.

• Less than 48-hours after defeating Auburn in the season-opener, 88-82, The Bears beat a fiesty John Brown squad on Thursday morning 96-70.

• Langston Love matched a career-high with his team-leading 20-points against the Golden Eagles.

• RayJ Dennis notched his BU career high with 16 points, and a career-high 6 steals in the win.

• BU erased a nine-point halftime deficit in the season opener against Auburn to win 88-82 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

• The nine-point halftime deficit matched BU's largest halftime deficit overcome in a win since coming back from 11 down to beat Texas in overtime on Feb. 27, 2019 in Waco.

• Five-star freshman Ja'Kobe Walter burst out of the gates against Auburn with 28-points, the most by a freshman in a debut in program history.

• Walter is one of four freshman in Big 12 history to score at least 28 points in his debut, and the only one to do it against a power conference opponent.

• Walter went a perfect 10-for-10 from the free throw line making him the ninth different player in program history to shoot 1.000 percent from the line [min. 10 attempts]

• Baylor is 79-13 vs. unranked teams over the last four seasons (.855%).

• BU is 80-20 over the last three-plus seasons, tied for the nation's best record by a Power-6 team in that span.

• Baylor has built leads of 10+ points in 52 of 75 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (49-3 record).

• The Bears opened the season as a ranked team for the fifth-straight season, and 11 of the last 14 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.

• Baylor is 106-24 over the last four-plus seasons, the nation's best winning percentage among Power-6 teams in that span.

• The Bears are a nations-best 27-11 vs. AP top-25 teams over the last four years, with 16 of those wins coming away from home.

• Baylor is replacing four of its five starters and 68% of its scoring from a season ago.

• Only one returning player averaged more than 20-minutes per game last season (Jalen Bridges).

• BU is playing its 348th game as a ranked team under Scott Drew — Baylor was ranked in just two of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, The Bears have been ranked in 330 of 469.

• BU is the only program with three-straight top-16 picks and only one of two with three-straight top-20 picks (Duke).
For a full version of Baylor's game notes, click here.<file:///documents/2023/11/10/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_3_GWEBB_23-24.pdf>


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