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<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Waco, Texas <br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Conference/Affiliation:</span></strong> Big 12<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Head Coach: </span></strong>Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Feb. 1, 2024 • 3:00 p.m. CT</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion </span></strong>(7,500) <br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WATCH:</span></strong> ESPN<br>
<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Talent:</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Jon Sciambi</span></em> <i>(pxp), Fran Fraschilla (analyst), Kris Budden (Reporter)</i><br>
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<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Talent:</span></i></strong> John Morris<em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> (PBP), Pat Nunley (Analyst)</span></em><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">11/11 Kansas Jayhawks (15-5, 6-3 Big 12)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Lawrence, Kan.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Conference/Affiliation: </span>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Head Coach: Bill Self </span></strong>(Oklahoma St., 1985)<br>
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<p><b>Story lines</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Baylor returns home to host No. 11 Kansas in their only regular-season meeting at 3 p.m. on ESPN<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• 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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Baylor is one of two teams in the country with six wins over Kansas since 2018<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• The Bears and <span class="scayt-misspell-word">Jayhawks</span> are two of just four teams to win a game in five-straight NCAA Tournaments<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• BU and KU are two of the four programs that have been ranked in the top-10 for six-straight years<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• 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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• The Bears are 8-2 in their last 10 home games against top-15 teams (4-1 vs. Kansas)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• In that last meeting, The Bears defended home court, led by <b>RayJ Dennis' </b>
19 points and 10 assists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Scott Drew</b> and Bill Self are two of the seven active coaches with 450+ wins at their current institution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Drew</b> 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 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Drew</b> and the Bears have wins against John Calipari & Rick Pitino, with the only loss coming to Dan Hurley in Dec.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Last time out, Baylor had five players log 35-plus minutes in an overtime loss at BYU<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• 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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Baylor had it's streak of 65-straight wins when shooting 50% or better snapped, dating back to March of 2018<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Freshmen <b>VJ Edgecombe</b> and <b>Robert Wright </b>combined for 50 points in the game, including the team's final 25 in the second half and overtime<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Edgecombe</b> went for a game-high 28, his third-straight game of 20-plus points, the most by a BU freshman since
<b>Keyonte George </b>strung together 3-straight 20-plus point games (January of 2023)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Wright</b> scored Baylor's final 14-points in the second half to lift BU to overtime with a game-high +10 +/- rating<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Wright </b>and <b>Edgecombe</b> are the first BU true freshmen to each score 20 points in the same game since
<b>John Lucas III </b>and <b>Lawrence Roberts</b> did it against North Texas in December of 2001 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• <b>Edgecombe</b> 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) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Across his last five games, <b>Edgecombe</b> is averaging 22.2 points per game, shooting 52% from the field and 49% from three-point range <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• For his efforts last week,<b> Edgecombe</b> was named the Big 12 co-Newcomer of the week, BU's second weekly-award winner after<b> Norchad Omier</b> was the Big 12 Player of the Week in November<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• With his next double-double, <b>Omier </b>will move into a tie for 11th in NCAA history with three players including UCLA's Lew Alcindor (<b>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar),</b> two more earn him a tie for 10th all-time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• BU is 168-102 in Big 12 play in 15 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• 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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• The Bears lead the conference and rank fifth in the Power-5 with 13.5 offensive rebounds per game <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>• Sitting at +3.2, BU is third in the Big 12 and 15th in the Power-5 in turnover margin<o:p></o:p></p>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
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