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<b>Location:</b> Waco, Texas <br>
<b>Conference/Affiliation:</b> Big 12<br>
<b>Head Coach: </b>Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)<br>
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<b>Nov. 27, 2024 • 1:00 p.m. CT</b><br>
<b>Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion </b>(7,500) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">NEW ORLEANS PRIVATEERS (2-4, 0-0 Southland)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<b>Location:</b> New Orleans, LA<br>
<b>Conference/Affiliation:</b> Southland<br>
<b>Head Coach: Stacy Hollowell</b> (St. Edwards, 2001)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://baylor.app.box.com/s/pixj7k5dq7uo84maocw4vv2vhlhzh1c8"><b><i><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Media Materials Folder</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Story lines</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• No. 17/18 Baylor returns home for its second all-time meeting with the New Orleans Privateers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• The only other meeting between these teams was an 84-44 Bear victory in Waco on Dec. 29, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• Baylor’s
<b>Jayden Nunn</b> will be honored prior to the game for scoring his 1,000th-career point last week against Tarleton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Scott Drew</b> is 15-1 against current Southland Conference teams during his 22 seasons at Baylor. The Bears lost to TAMU-CC in Drew’s second season, but have won 14-straight against current Southland Conference teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Drew </b>is one of six active coaches who have won a national title, beating two of the other five already this season (Calipari & Pitino). Drew and the Bears will play two more in the regular season (Hurley & Self)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• BU enters Wednesday winners of four-straight at Foster Pavilion and coming off back-to-back 100-point outputs in front of the
home fans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• In 22 years,
<b>Drew </b>has never lost more than two games in the month of November <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• Eclipsing the century mark against Sam Houston and Tarleton, the Bears put together back-to-back 100-point games for the first
time since 1989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• In it’s last home game, BU beat Tarleton by 63 points, the just the second 60+ point win over a D1 team (and fourth overall)
for BU since 1980<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• The Bears are coming off a second-place finish at the Baha Mar Bahamas Championship, improving to 30-6 in its eight regular-season
tournaments since 2013-14, going 3-1, 3-1, 3-1, 4-0, 4-0, 3-1, 3-0, 3-0, 1-1, 2-0 and 1-1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• Baylor is 43-14 in regular-season tournaments during the Drew era, including titles in four of the last 6 tournaments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Norchad Omier</b> led the way for Baylor, averaging 23 points and 10 rebounds against a pair of ranked opponents, earning a spot on the all-tournament team and Big 12 Player of the Week honors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• With two more double-doubles in the Bahamas,<b> Omier</b> now has 72 in his career, 10 ahead of Auburn’s Johni Broom for the
most among active players in the NCAA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Omier</b> is the first bear since <b>Ekpe Udoh</b> in 2009 to have four double-doubles in his first six games in a Baylor uniform<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• The Miami transfer is one of just three players in the country with 1,500+ points and 1,000+ career rebounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Jeremy Roach</b> also made the all-tournament squad averaging 14 points and 3.5 assists, highlighted by his game-winning buzzer-beater against No. 22 St. John’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Roach’s</b> buzzer-beater was the first by a Baylor Bear since Lester Medford beat Texas Tech at the Gun in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• BU’s 14-point halftime deficit was its largest in a comeback win since it trailed by 15 at the break against Rick Pitino and
the Louisville Cardinals in the Battle ‘4’ Atlantis Championship in 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• Second-half surges have the Bears outscoring their last five opponents by a total of 221-151 in the final 20-minutes, an average
of 14.0 points per game<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• BU has the toughest strength of schedule among power-five conference teams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">• Ranked as the 8th-toughest schedule by Ken Pom, the next hardest schedule by a power-conference team is Alabama at No. 43.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
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