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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">No. 9 TEXAS TECH 76, BAYLOR 74</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Kansas City, Mo. (T-Mobile Center)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">March 13, 2025</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – March 13, 2025</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Red Raiders Use Hot Start to Fuel Quarterfinals Win</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Baylor Falls in Big 12 Quarterfinals
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu" title="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">KANSAS CITY, Mo. --</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> No. 9 Texas Tech, the No. 2 seed, made its first eight shots and sank 10 3-pointers in the opening 12 minutes, fueling
a 76-74 win over No. 7 seed Baylor men’s basketball, in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Big 12 Championships, in Kansas City, Mo., at the T-Mobile Center.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Baylor (19-14) could not overcome the hot start of Texas Tech (25-7), as the Red Raiders made their first eight shots and drilled 11 3-pointers in the first 13 minutes of the game to build an early,
insurmountable lead. The Bears rallied in the second half however, behind a stifling defensive effort, and had a look at a game-winning basket as time expired, with the ball rolling off the rim to send Tech to the semifinals.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Bears will now await NCAA Tournament selection, with the Selection Show on Sunday at 5 p.m. on CBS.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Norchad Omier charted a season-best performance in his school-record 21<sup>st</sup> double-double of the year and the 89<sup>th</sup> of his career, which is second-best in college basketball
history. Omier’s BU record ninth-straight double-double came courtesy of a season-high 29 points on 11-of-15 shooting with 11 rebounds. It marked the fifth-most points for a BU player in the Big 12 Championships, equaling Kish Lewis (1999).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year VJ Edgecombe had 11 points, seven rebounds, five assists and two steals over 36 minutes played, with his attempted game-winning running 3-pointer rolling
off the rim to give the Red Raiders the win. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Bears also got nine points from Jeremy Roach, eight points from Robert Wright and 10 points from Jayden Nunn.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">BU shot 45 percent in the game and owned a 44-18 margin in points in the paint. Texas Tech star JT Toppin, the Big 12 Player of the Year, had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead TTU.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Red Raiders came out on a blistering pace, sinking their first eight shots – five 3-pointers – to build an early 21-10 lead with less than four minutes gone in the first half. The Bears rallied
to cut the lead to four after a pair of Robert Wright runners in the paint. The Raiders grew the lead by sinking a pair of treys out of the second-media break, owning a 34-21 lead that the Bears would not be able to erase.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Tech’s lead grew to 52-39 at halftime, with TTU shooting 58-percent, including a 12-of-19 mark from 3-point range.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Baylor managed to stay within striking distance throughout the second half, using a stifling defense that held Tech to just six made field goals and a 19.4 percent clip from the field, in the final
period. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Bears used a transition lay-up from Edgecombe with 15 minutes left in regulation to cut the lead to single digits. Jayden Nunn, who had 18 points off the bench on Wednesday night and moved
into the starting lineup on Thursday with an injury to Langston Love, splashed a corner, transition 3-pointer to narrow the TTU advantage to 68-61 at the under eight-minute media timeout.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Consecutive buckets from Nunn and Roach cur the lead to 70-65 with six minutes left. After a key defensive stop and rebound, Wright’s driving layup cut the lead to 72-69 with 25 seconds left.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">After a pair of made free throws, Nunn sank a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 74-72 with 11 seconds left and Texas Tech kept the two-possession lead with two more at the charity stripe.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Wright went straight to the bucket, making it 76-74 with 4.5 seconds left, and Edgecombe immediately fouled to give the Bears a final chance.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">A miss on both free throws led to a rebound from Edgecombe. He raced down the court and attempted a game-winning runner from behind the arc as time expired, with the ball rolling off the rim.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> GAME NOTES</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor is 19-14 on the season and Texas Tech is 25-7.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor is 19-27 all-time in the Big 12 Championships and 15-23 in Kansas City in the event. Under Coach
<b>Scott Drew</b>, the Bears are 15-21 in the Big 12 Championships. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Texas Tech owns an 85-65 lead in the series with BU and a 6-3 margin in the series when played at neutral-site venues.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This was just the second meeting between the schools in the Big 12 Championship, with the last coming in a 68-65 win by Texas Tech in 2003.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Under Drew, the Bears are 25-18 vs. Texas Tech.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Facing another former assistant coach in Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland, a 1999 BU graduate, Drew is now 3-6 against his former assistant coaches.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Drew</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> is 483-269 in his 23<sup>rd</sup> year and 463-258 in his 22<sup>nd</sup> year at Baylor.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Since owning a full complement of scholarships, Baylor is 428-186 under Drew, dating back to 2007-08. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Bears are 147-49 over the last six seasons. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor is 110-5 since 2019 when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Bears used the starting lineup of<b> Robert Wright</b>,<b> VJ Edgecombe, Jayden Nunn, Jalen Celestine and Norchad Omier </b>for the first time this year.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Texas Tech made 15 3-pointers, the most vs. a Baylor team since Texas in 2019.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">posted a season highs in points (29), field goals (12) and field-goal attempts (18), while grabbing 14 rebounds
and connecting on 5-of-6 from the line. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">had the fifth most points for a BU player in the Big 12 Championship, equaling
<b>Kish Lewis</b> (1999). <b> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">now has 89 career double-doubles, ranking second in NCAA history. He is seven shy of the NCAA record, owned by
La Salle’s Tom Gola (96). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">broke the program record for double-doubles in a season (21), passing Jerome Lambert (1993-94).
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">is the first player in program history to have a double-double in nine straight games. The previous standard was five straight.<b>
</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">has scored in double figures in 28 of 33 games in 2024-25, with the Bears going 19-9 in those outings. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">reached 20+ points for the fifth time on the year.<b>
</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">With 14 rebounds, <b>Omier </b>has 1,674 career boards passing
<b>Kenneth Farried</b> for 11<sup>th</sup> (1,673) in NCAA history. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Omier’s</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> 359 rebounds in 2024-25 move him into fourth place in Baylor single-season history, passing
<b>Jerome Lambert</b> (1993-94) and <b>Ekpe Udoh</b> (2009-10). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Edgecombe </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">had 11 points, seven rebounds, five assists and two steals in 36 minutes.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Edgecombe </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">has scored in double figures in 25 games on the year, with the Bears going 16-8 in those outings.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Edgecombe
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">passed<b> Isaiah Austin </b>(2012-13) to move into fifth in BU freshman history in points (465).
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Edgecombe
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">has 66 steals on the year, the most in Baylor freshman history, and passed
<b>James Akinjo </b>(2021-22) and <b>Wendall Greenleaf</b> (2001-02) for seventh in BU single-season history.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Robert Wright h</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ad<b>
</b>eight points and one assist in 25 minutes. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wright
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">has 143 assists in 2024-25, the Baylor freshman record.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jayden Nunn
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">had 10 points, five rebounds and one steal in 31 minutes.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nunn
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