Final Road Test Awaits Baylor MBB in Fort Worth

[Hutton, Josie]

Final Road Test Awaits Baylor MBB in Fort Worth
Baylor Faces TCU on Tuesday in Fort Worth at 7 p.m. on ESPN+
For more information contact: Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,  josie_hutton at baylor.edu<mailto:josie_hutton at baylor.edu>
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Baylor men's basketball wraps up its regular-season road slate on Tuesday, traveling to Fort Worth to take on TCU at 7 p.m. on ESPN+ at Schollmaier Arena.

Baylor (17-12, 9-9 Big 12 Conference) will face TCU (16-13, 9-9 Big 12) in the final road test of the 2024-25 season. The Bears are coming off a 71-61 win over Oklahoma State on Saturday and enter the matchup owning a No. 30 NET ranking.

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• Baylor ventures to Fort Worth on Tuesday to wrap up its road slate, taking on TCU at 7 p.m.
• The Bears are coming off a 71-61 win over Oklahoma State on Saturday, honoring a trio of seniors, including guards Jayden Nunn and Jeremy Roach, and forward Norchad Omier.
• BU fell in the lone meeting in the series earlier in the year, as TCU posted a 74-71 win over the Bears at Foster Pavilion on Jan. 19. The Frogs outscored the Bears 42-32 in the final period to rally from a seven-point hole to post the win, evening both team's records at 3-3 in league play. Norchad Ormier led the Bears with 20 points and 11 rebounds, while VJ Edgecombe chipped in 18 points.
• Baylor leads the all-time series with TCU, 107-87 and own a 45-43 margin in the series in games played at TCU.
• The Bears have won 18 of the last 25 meetings in the series and have won four straight meetings in Fort Worth.
• The win for the Bears over Oklahoma State on Saturday snapped a three-game losing streak, that featured a 69-67 loss at Cincinnati, a 76-74 loss at Colorado and a 74-67 setback vs. No. 19 Arizona.
• Baylor erupted in the second half vs. Oklahoma State, extending a two-point halftime lead with a 45-point second stanza. Jeremy Roach chipped in a season-high 21 points with four rebounds and three assists off the bench, while Robert O. Wright III had 16 points and Norchad Ormier had 10 points and 13 rebounds.
• The Bears shot 23.53% from the field in the first half vs. OSU before sinking 14 of 25 shots (56%) in the second half that featured six 3-pointers. BU held OSU to a 38.8% clip from the field in the win.
• BU pulled down 29 rebounds in the first half vs. OSU, the most rebounds in a half in Big 12 play for BU in the last five years.
• It marked the fifth straight win for the Bears over Oklahoma State, the second-longest win streak in series history.
• Against OSU, BU's Norchad Omier recorded his 17th double-double of the season, equaling the most by a Baylor player since Rico Gathers had 17 in 2014-15.
• Omier's 17 double-doubles this season rank as the third-most in program history and two shy of Jerome Lambert (1993-94), who had 19.
• With 1,618 career rebounds, Omier moved past Bill Russell for 13th all-time, and sits just behind Al Innis (1,667) from St. Francis (N.Y.)
• VJ Edgecombe continues to climb draft boards, averaging a team-leading 17.2 points per game over his last 12 games, shooting 47.2% from the field, 40.4% from three and 79.4% from the free-throw line.
• Edgecombe ranks eighth in the Big 12, averaging 16.3 points per game in conference play and with 14.6 points per game, he is on pace for the fifth-best scoring average by a freshman in BU history.
• Robert Wright now holds Baylor's single-season freshman assist record (128), which comes after setting the single-game freshman record of 13 against Norfolk State earlier this season.
• The Bears have lost 32 games and counting due to injuries this season: Langston Love (14), Jeremy Roach (6), Jalen Celestine (4) VJ Edgecombe (2) and Josh Ojianwuna (6) (Out for the season).
• Of the 1,185 minutes of game time this season, Baylor has had it's full complement of rotation players for just 189:56 (15.9%).
• Baylor has 8+ Big 12 wins for a 14th-straight season after winning 8+game just three times in the league's first 15 years.
• The only team in the league with 11+ Big 12 wins in each of the last five seasons, Baylor is in search of its seventh-straight season with double-digit conference wins.

Josie Hutton | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (FB, T&F/XC, MTEN)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: (254) 709-7720

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