MBB Readies for Late-Night Showdown With No. 13 Arizona

[Roberts, Matt]

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NR/RV BAYLOR BEARS (16-9, 8-6 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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13/13 Arizona (17-8, 11-3 Big 12) vs. NR/RV BAYLOR (16-9, 8-6 Big 12)
Feb. 17, 2025 • 9:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500)

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13/13 ARIZONA WILDCATS (17-8, 11-3 Big 12)
Location: Tucson, Ariz.
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Tommy Lloyd (Whitman)
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Story lines
• Baylor closes down the season series with Arizona in a late-night tip against the No. 13 Wildcats on Big Monday on ESPN
• This is the second-straight year BU has played a 9 p.m. CT home game after beating Kansas City 99-61 in a late-night tip in Waco last season
• BU has won seven of its last nine games with a scheduled tip time of 9 p.m. CT or later and is 12-4 in these late-night games since 2011-12
• The last time Baylor played a power conference-team in the central time zone at 9 p.m. or later was Dec. 2, 2020 when the No. 2 Bears beat No. 5 Illinois 82-69 in the Jimmy V Classic at Bankers Life Field House in Indianapolis, Ind.
• The Bears are carrying a four-game home win streak and a 12-1 mark at home this season averaging 86.5 points per game and outscoring teams by an average of 24.6 points per game
• Baylor will look to even the season-series with the Wildcats after an 81-70 setback against U of A last month in Tucson, despite a 20-6 run by the Bears in the second half to get a 27-point deficit to single-digits
• The last meeting in Waco came on Dec. 7, 2019 when No. 18 BU beat No. 12 Arizona 63-58, holding the Wildcats to 27% shooting, which was the lowest in the Sean Miller Era at the time
• Baylor is 35-22 against ranked teams over the last four seasons, including a 17-4 mark at home
• Last time out, BU outlasted a feisty West Virginia squad 74-71 in overtime, despite not making a field goal in the extra session
• All nine of Baylor's points in OT came from the foul line, while junior Langston Love capitalized on his 12 trips to the charity stripe in the game, netting all 12 attempts
• Saturday marked the eighth time in program history a player had gone 12-for-12 or better from the line and the first time since Taurean Prince made all 12 of his foul shots at Kansas on Jan. 2, 2016
• With its eighth Big 12 win on Saturday, BU has 8+ Big 12 wins for a 14th-straight season after winning 8+ just 3 times in the league's first 15 years
• BU is 170-104 in Big 12 play in 15 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons
• Baylor has 72 conference wins over the last six seasons, second only to Kansas' 74, the next closest team in that span is Texas Tech with 57
• The Bears have lost 28 games and counting due to injuries this season: Langston Love (14), Jeremy Roach (6), Jalen Celestine (4) VJ Edgecombe (2) and Josh Ojianwuna (2) (Out for the season)
• Of the 1,025 minutes of game time this season, Baylor has had it's full complement of rotation players for just 189:56 (18.5%)
• In the absence of Ojianwuna, Baylor's Norchad Omier has been forced to play extended minutes, but has led the team in scoring in each of the last four games
• The fifth-year senior continues to climb the record books, recording 81 career double-doubles, which is the eighth-most all-time
• His 1,571 career rebounds are 17th-most in NCAA history and he is 31 rebounds away from tying Elvin Hayes for 15th all-time
• Omier's 13 double-doubles are the ninth-most in a season by a Baylor Bear and the most since Jo Lual-Acuil had 13 in 2017-18
• The dynamic freshman duo of VJ Edgecombe and Rob Wright have stepped their games up as of late averaging 16.0 and 14.0 points per game, respectively, in Baylor's last five games
• Wright is now just five assists away from tying the freshman assist record held by John Lucas III (120)


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