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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">RV/RV<b> Baylor 81,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>11/11<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> Kansas</b></span><b> 70</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Baylor is 14-7 on the season and 6-4 in conference play. Kansas is 15-6 and 6-4 in Big 12 play<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">While Kansas holds the all-time series lead 37-11, the Bears are 6-5 in the last 11 games against the Jayhawks<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Baylor’s seven wins against KU since 2018 are the most against the Jayhawks of any team in the country<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">BU has won 5-straight games against KU in Waco<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">The 21-point lead was the largest blown lead in Kansas history<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">21 points is the largest deficit erased by the Bears since coming back from down 22 against Louisville in the 2016 Battle ‘4’ Atlantis Championship against Louisville<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">Baylor is the only team over the last 15 seasons to beat a ranked opponent by double-digits after trailing by 20+ points</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">BU’s 19-point halftime deficit ties the Big 12 record for the largest halftime deficit
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">The last time a Big 12 team came back from down 19 at the half was in 2015 when No. 17 Iowa State trailed 18-37 at the half, and beat Oklahoma 77-70</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">60 points were the most by Baylor in a half of a Big 12 game since scoring 60 in the final 20-minutes at Iowa State on Jan. 9, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">60 points ties for the 13<sup>th</sup> most in any half in program history, and the most in any half since netting 61 against Mississippi Valley State
on Nov. 7, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">The Bears had a 17-0 run, its largest run of the season and largest in Big 12 play since an 18-0 run against No. 8 Texas on Feb. 25, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#0F1419;background:white">Bu shot .893 from the free throw line it’s best mark since shooting .923 vs. Iowa State on March 9, 2023</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">The Bears used the starting lineup of<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>Wright</b>,<b> Jayden Nunn, Edgecombe, Norchad Omier </b>and <b>Josh</b> <b>Ojianwuna</b> for the fourth
time this season, the Bears are 3-1 using that lineup<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Wright </b>notched a career-high in points (26) for a second-straight game.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">The freshman averaged 24 points in two games this week<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Wright </b>went for 20-points in the second half tonight, combining for 38 points in the second-half and overtime of the last two games<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Wright </b>led the team in points for a third time this season, and the Bears are now 1-2 in those games<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier </b>had 18 points to go along with 16 rebounds for his 10<sup>th</sup> double-double of the season<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier’s </b>
10 double-doubles are the most by a Baylor player since Freddie Gillespie had 11 in 2019-20<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier</b> now has 78 career double-double’s which ties him for the 11<sup>th</sup> most in NCAA history<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier</b> has now made a three-pointer in eight-straight games, the longest stretch of his career. Prior to this year, his longest streak was four games<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier </b>set a new career high in free throw makes (13) and attempts (14)
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scored in double-figures for the 17<sup>th</sup> time this season and the Bears are now 13-4 in those games<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">With 11 points,
<b>Ojianwuna</b> scored in double figures for the 10<sup>th</sup> time this season, with Baylor improving to 8-2 in those games<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b>Jalen Celestine</b> led the team with 12 bench points, the seventh time he has done that this season.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
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