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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">No. 9 BAYLOR 75, No. 8 Mississippi State 72</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Lenovo, Center (Raleigh, N.C.)</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">March 21, 2025</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Box Score Attached</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://baylor.app.box.com/s/pixj7k5dq7uo84maocw4vv2vhlhzh1c8">Media Material Link</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/tournament-experience/mens-basketball/2025#tournament-run">Baylor Tournament Experience</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121">Digital Media Hub:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#141413"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://on.ncaa.com/d1mbbmedia">https://on.ncaa.com/d1mbbmedia</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Transcripts:
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.ncaa.com/transcripts" title="http://www.ncaa.com/transcripts">http://www.ncaa.com/transcripts</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#000100"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor is 20-14 on the season. Mississippi State finishes the season at 21-13<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">BU is 2-3 all-time against MSU<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The Bears are 10-4 all-time in the first round of the NCAA Tournament<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">BU has won six-straight games in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">BU is one of just three teams to win a game in each of the last six NCAA Tournaments (Gonzaga, Houston)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor is 24-17 in 16 NCAA Championship appearances and 21-11 under
<b>Scott Drew</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">BU is 2-1 all-time at a No. 9 seed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The Bears are 4-5 all-time when playing as the lower/same seed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor now has 20 wins for the seventh-straight season and the 13<sup>th</sup> time in the last 14 years<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">10 steals are Baylor’s most in an NCAA Tournament game since getting 10 against North Carolina in the second round of the 2022 NCAAT, The Baylor
tournament record is 15 against Hartford in 2021<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Four Bears finished with double-figure points, the second time in the last three tournament games BU has had multiple players eclipse double-figure
points<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The Bears used the starting lineup of<b> Robert Wright</b>,<b> VJ Edgecombe, Langston Love, Jalen Celestine and Norchad Omier </b>for
the ninth time. That combination is now 4-4 this season</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Wright
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">had a team-high 19 points, becoming the first BU freshman in the modern tournament era to lead the team in scoring in an NCAA Tournament game (first since Don Heathington in 1948)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Edgecombe
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">scored 16 points, his 16<sup>th</sup> game of 15-plus points this season<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Edgecombe</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> now has 481 points in his career closing in on the fourth-most by
a freshman in Baylor history<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">With<b>
</b>12 points and 10 rebounds,<b> Omier </b>recorded his 22<sup>nd</sup> double-double of the season, building on his BU single-season record<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Omier
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">is the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">first Bear to record a double-double in an NCAAT game since
<b>Jeremy Sochan</b> had 15 points and 11 Rebs against UNC in the second round of the 2022 Tournament vs. North Carolina</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Omier</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> is now tied for the fifth-most double-doubles in a season in Big 12 history<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">With 10 more boards on Friday,
<b>Omier </b>now has 1,685 for his career, the 10<sup>th</sup>-most all-time <o:p>
</o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Love
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">scored 15 points, his most since netting 17 at Colorado on Feb. 22<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">In his 12<sup>th</sup>-career NCAA Tournament game,
<b>Jeremy Roach</b> had six points off the bench, his fifth-time leading the team in bench scoring this season<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">In his career-first NCAA Tournament game,<b> Jalen Celestine,
</b>had a season-high eight rebounds<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Wright</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">,
<b>Edgecombe</b>, <b>Celestine</b> and <b>Marino Dubravcic</b> all made their NCAA Tournament debuts<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li></ul>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
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