MBB Heads for West Texas Showdown at No. 13 Texas Tech

Mon Feb 3 15:46:54 CST 2025

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RV/RV BAYLOR BEARS (14-7, 6-4 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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RV/RV BAYLOR (14-7, 6-4 Big 12) vs. 13/12 Texas Tech (17-4, 8-2 Big 12)
Feb. 4, 2025 • 8:00 p.m. CT
Lubbock, Texas • United Supermarkets Arena (15,098)

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12/13 TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS (17-4, 8-2 Big 12)
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Grant McCasland (Baylor, 1999)
Roster<https://texastech.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://texastech.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2024> | Game Notes (PDF)<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2025/2/3/G22_-_Texas_Tech_vs_Baylor_2025.pdf>
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Story lines
• Fresh off its biggest win of the season against No. 11 Kansas, Baylor heads to the Hub City for a Super Tuesday Showdown in search of another ranked win against former Baylor player and Scott Drew Assistant, Grant McCasland on ESPN2
• Drew split two meetings with McCasland last year, and is 2-4 against his former assistants
• Tuesday is the only regular-season meeting between these two teams, marking the first time since 1957 the Bears and Red Raiders will not play home-and-home
• This is the first meeting since February 16, 2019, where BU enters as the lower-ranked team
• The Bears have won seven of the last 10 meetings against Tech, including three of the last four
• In the last meeting, the Bears erased a 16-point second-half lead by the Red Raiders to lead by one with 7:25 to play, but Tech went on a 14-2 run, to go back in front by 10 and closed out the game
• Baylor has 70 conference wins over the last six seasons, second only to Kansas' 72, the next closest team in that span is Texas Tech with 54
• BU is 32-17 in Big 12 Road games since 2019-20, The best mark in the league in that span
• The last time out, Baylor won its fifth-straight game against the Kansas Jayhawks in dramatic fashion, 81-70
• Down by 19 at the break, BU erased the KU lead less than seven minutes into the second half, and matched the largest halftime comeback in Big 12 history
• In the process Baylor became the only team over the last 15 seasons to beat a ranked opponent by double-digits after trailing by 20+ points
• Drew is one of six active coaches with a national title, and now has wins over three of the other five (Calipari, Pitino and Self)
• Baylor freshmen VJ Edgecombe and Robert Wright have taken their games to the next level, averaging 22.2 and 14.8 points per game, respectively, over the last five games, and are the two highest-scoring freshmen in the league
• Wright was named the Big 12's Newcomer of the Week, after Edgecombe picked up co-honors last week, becoming the first Baylor duo to win newcomer of the week in consecutive weeks
• Against BYU, Wright and Edgecombe became the first BU true freshmen to each score 20 points in the same game since John Lucas III and Lawrence Roberts did it against UNT in December of 2001
• Edgecombe has seven 15+ point performances in Big 12 Play, and now ranks fifth in the conference in points per game in league play (18.1)
• Across his last five games, Edgecombe is averaging 22.2 points per game, shooting 50% from the field and 58% from three-point range
• With his 78th career double-double against the Jayhawks, Norchad Omier moved into a tie for 11th in NCAA history with three players including UCLA's Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), one more moves him into the top-10 all-time
• BU is 169-102 in Big 12 play in 15 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons
• Five of Baylor's seven losses have come against teams that have been ranked in the top-10 at some point this season, while Gonzaga, Tennessee, UConn and Iowa State have been ranked in the top 3
• The Bears lead the conference and rank seventh in the Power-5 with 13.4 offensive rebounds per game
• Sitting at +2.9, BU is third in the Big 12 conference in turnover margin
• Baylor has had its full complement of rotation players available for just four full games this season

Matt Roberts | Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-227-2280
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