No. 15 MBB Host Kansas City for "Late Night at The Ferrell"

[Roberts, Matt]

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15/13 BAYLOR BEARS (3-0, 0-0 Big 12)
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Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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15/13 BAYLOR (3-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs. KANSAS CITY (2-0, 0-0 Summit)
Nov. 14, 2023 • 9:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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KANSAS CITY 'ROOS (2-0, 0-0 Summit)
Location: Kansas City, Mo.
Conference/Affiliation: Summit
Head Coach: Marvin Menzies (UCLA, 1987)
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Story lines

• No. 15/13 Baylor plays host to Kansas City in its “Late Night at the Ferrell“ game, a 9pm local-time tip.

• Fans attending the women’s game at 6:30 p.m. vs. Utah are able to stay in their seats for the men’s game at 9 pm.

• Kansas City leads the all-time series between the two 4-3, with the last meeting coming in 1998.

• The Bears have won all three previous meetings in Waco, while the ‘Roos have won every meeting away from the Brazos Valley.

• Baylor is 56-6 in home games over the last four seasons.

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

• Baylor’s game against Kansas City will mark the fourth of four games in a seven-day stretch.

• BU improved to 3-0 for a fourth-straight season with a 77-62 win over Gardner-Webb on Sunday.

• The Bears won the game despite snapping an over 33-year old streak of making at least one three-pointer (0-9).

• Ja’Kobe Walter led the team in scoring for a second time in three games with 14 points to go along with a career-high 8 rebounds.

• Walter concluded his historic week by collecting Big 12 Player of the Week honors this week, becoming the first freshman in program history to win that award.

• Less than 48-hours after the season opener, BU knocked off a fiesty John Brown team 96-70 on “Future Bears Day”

• 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 80-13 vs. unranked teams over the last four seasons (.855%).

• BU is 81-20 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 53 of 76 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (50-3 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 107-24 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.

For full version of Baylor game notes, click here.<file:///documents/2023/11/13/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_4_KANCITY_23-24.pdf>


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