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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">No. 9 BAYLOR BEARS (19-14, 10-10 Big 12)</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">No. 9 BAYLOR </span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">(19-14, 10-10 Big 12) vs.<b> No. 8 MISSISSIPPI STATE</b> (21-12, 8-10 Big 12)<b> </b><br>
<b>March 21, 2025 • 11:15 a.m. CT</b><br>
<b>Raleigh, N.C. • Lenovo Center </b>(20,000) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">No. 8 MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOGS (21-12, 8-10 SEC)</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<b>Location: </b>Starkville, Miss.<br>
<b>Conference/Affiliation: </b>SEC<br>
<b>Head Coach: </b>Chris Jans (Loras, 1991)<br>
<a href="https://hailstate.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster"><span style="color:blue">Roster</span></a> | <a href="https://hailstate.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2024-25"><span style="color:blue">Stats</span></a> | <a href="file:///documents/2025/3/19/Game34BaylorNCAATournament.pdf"><span style="color:blue">Game
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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> <br>
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<b><a href="https://baylorbears.com/tournament-experience/mens-basketball/2025"><span style="color:blue">BAYLOR NCAA TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Story lines</span></b><span style="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="mso-ligatures:none">• No. 9 seed Baylor will open it’s school-record sixth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance against No. 8 Seed Mississippi State Friday at 11:15
a.m. CT on CBS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• This is the third postseason meeting between the Bears and the Bulldogs, with the two previous meetings coming in the NIT in 1990 and 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• In the last meeting, MSU used a last-second three-pointer to beat the home-standing Bears 78-77 in the second round of the 2018 NIT in Waco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Each of the last two meetings between these two teams have been decided in the final 28 seconds (<b>2011</b>: Baylor layup with :28 left;
<b>2018</b> MSU three-pointer with :01 left)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Baylor is 9-4 all-time with six-straight wins in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• The Bears are one of just four teams to win at least one NCAA Tournament game in each of the last five tournaments, joining Gonzaga, Houston and
Kansas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• BU is 1 of 8 teams to appear in nine of the last 10 tournaments, joining Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina and Purdue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 13-consecutive postseason appearances, the nations fifth-longest active streak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• BU is 1-1 all-time as a No. 9 seed, holding a 3-5 in NCAA Tournament games as the lower/same seed, though four of those five losses were to top-2
seeds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• The Bears are 23-17 in 15 NCAA Championship appearances and 20-11 under
<b>Scott Drew</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Drew</b> is one of six active coaches with a national title, and now has wins over three of the other five this season (John Calipari, Rick Pitino and Bill Self)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Drew</b> is one of eight coaches in NCAA history, and the only one since 1990, to have won an NCAA title and an NIT Title at the same school.
<b>Calipari</b> is the only other active coach to have won both tournaments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Baylor is 45-29 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 17 seasons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Only three active players on Baylor’s roster have more than five minutes of NCAA Tournament experience, but two are Final Four participants in
<b>Jeremy Roach</b> (Duke, 2022) and <b>Norchad Omier </b>(Miami, 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Averaging 13.7 points in 11 NCAA Tournament games,
<b>Roach</b> helped Duke reach the 2022 Final Four<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• In five tournament games with the Hurricanes in 2023,
<b>Omier</b> averaged 10 points and 12 rebounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• The NCAA’s active leader in career rebounds (1,675) and double-doubles (89),
<b>Omier</b> holds Baylor’s single-season record for double-doubles with 21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Jayden Nunn </b>is the only player on the roster with extensive NCAAT experience in a Baylor uniform, averaging 9.0 points and shooting 50% from three in two games last season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>VJ Edgecombe </b>was Baylor’s third-straight postseason Big 12 Freshman of the Year, making BU the first school in conference history with three straight preseason and postseason freshmen of the year<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">•
<b>Edgecombe</b> has left his mark this season at Baylor, scoring the fourth-most points by a BU freshman (465) and enters Friday tied with Keyonte George for the fourth most points per game by a Baylor rookie (15.0), while also setting the Baylor freshman
record with 66 steals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Fellow frosh,
<b>Robert Wright</b> set Baylor’s single-season freshman assist record (143), which comes after setting the single-game freshman record of 13 against Norfolk State earlier this season<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• The Bears have lost 37 games and counting due to injuries this season:
<b>Langston Love </b>(15), <b>Jeremy Roach</b> (6), <b>Jalen Celestine</b> (4) <b>
VJ Edgecombe</b> (2) and <b>Josh Ojianwuna</b> (10)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• Of the 1,345 minutes of game time this season, Baylor has had it’s full complement of rotation players for just 189:56 (14.2%)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">• 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
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