Baylor MBB to Host No. 11 Kansas on Saturday Afternoon

Fri Jan 31 16:46:06 CST 2025

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RV/RV BAYLOR BEARS (13-7, 5-4 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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11/11 KANSAS (15-5, 6-3 Big 12) vs. RV/RV BAYLOR (13-7, 5-4 Big 12)
Feb. 1, 2024 • 3:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500)

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11/11 Kansas Jayhawks (15-5, 6-3 Big 12)
Location: Lawrence, Kan.
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Bill Self (Oklahoma St., 1985)
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Story lines

• Baylor returns home to host No. 11 Kansas in their only regular-season meeting at 3 p.m. on ESPN

• BU is riding a four-game win streak in Waco against the Jayhawks, and has split the season series with KU in five straight, and six of the last seven years

• Baylor is one of two teams in the country with six wins over Kansas since 2018

• The Bears and Jayhawks are two of just four teams to win a game in five-straight NCAA Tournaments

• BU and KU are two of the four programs that have been ranked in the top-10 for six-straight years

• Baylor has 69 conference wins over the last six seasons, second only to Kansas' 72, the next closest team in that span is Texas Tech with 53

• The Bears are 8-2 in their last 10 home games against top-15 teams (4-1 vs. Kansas)

• In that last meeting, The Bears defended home court, led by RayJ Dennis' 19 points and 10 assists

• Scott Drew and Bill Self are two of the seven active coaches with 450+ wins at their current institution

• Drew and Self are two of the six active coaches with a national title, and Self will be the fourth of those championship coaches Drew has faced this season

• Drew and the Bears have wins against John Calipari & Rick Pitino, with the only loss coming to Dan Hurley in Dec.

• Last time out, Baylor had five players log 35-plus minutes in an overtime loss at BYU

• The Bears shot 50% from the field, marking just the third time in the last 110 games BU has lost when shooting 50% or higher from the field, with two of those losses coming to BYU in Provo the last two yrs

• Baylor had it's streak of 65-straight wins when shooting 50% or better snapped, dating back to March of 2018

• Freshmen VJ Edgecombe and Robert Wright combined for 50 points in the game, including the team's final 25 in the second half and overtime

• Edgecombe went for a game-high 28, his third-straight game of 20-plus points, the most by a BU freshman since Keyonte George strung together 3-straight 20-plus point games (January of 2023)

• Wright scored Baylor's final 14-points in the second half to lift BU to overtime with a game-high +10 +/- rating

• Wright and Edgecombe are the first BU true freshmen to each score 20 points in the same game since John Lucas III and Lawrence Roberts did it against North Texas in December of 2001

• Edgecombe has seven 15+ point performances in Big 12 Play, and now ranks third in the conference in points per game in league play (18.6)

• Across his last five games, Edgecombe is averaging 22.2 points per game, shooting 52% from the field and 49% from three-point range

• For his efforts last week, Edgecombe was named the Big 12 co-Newcomer of the week, BU's second weekly-award winner after Norchad Omier was the Big 12 Player of the Week in November

• With his next double-double, Omier will move into a tie for 11th in NCAA history with three players including UCLA's Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), two more earn him a tie for 10th all-time

• BU is 168-102 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 fifth in the Power-5 with 13.5 offensive rebounds per game

• Sitting at +3.2, BU is third in the Big 12 and 15th in the Power-5 in turnover margin

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