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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor finishes the season at 20-15, while Duke improves to 33-3</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BU is 0-4 all-time against Duke</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Bears are 5-5 all-time in the second round of the NCAA Tournament</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor is 24-18 in 16 NCAA Championship appearances and 21-12 under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Scott Drew</b></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BU is 2-2 all-time at a No. 9 seed</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Bears are 4-6 all-time when playing as the lower/same seed</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor’s .747 free-throw percentage is it’s best since the 2004-05 season</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BU set an NCAAT program record with 18 offensive rebounds, beating the Blue Devils 18-3 on the offensive glass</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Bears used the starting lineup of<b> Robert Wright</b>,<b> VJ Edgecombe, Langston Love, Jalen Celestine and Norchad Omier </b>for the 10th time. That
combination went 5-5 this season</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">With 16 points,
<b>Edgecombe</b> led the team in scoring for the ninth time this season. It was his 27thh double-figure scoring output<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">With 495 points this season,
<b>Edgecombe</b> finished fourth on the BU freshman scoring list, and tied <b>Keyonte George</b> for the fourth-best scoring average by a frosh (15.0 PPG)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">With 68 steals,
<b>Edgecombe</b> established a new freshman record, and tied with AJ Walton for the sixth-most in a season by a Baylor player<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier</b> scored in double figures for a team-high 30<sup>th</sup> time this season with 15 points<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier </b>
led the team in rounds for a 30<sup>th</sup> time this season with nin<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier’s </b>
379 rebounds put him in second place on Baylor’s single-season rebounding list<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Omier </b>
finished ninth<b> </b>in NCAA history with 1,794 career rebounds<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Wright </b>
scored in double-figures for a second-straight NCAAT game with 11 points<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Love</b> chipped in 11 as well for his second-straight NCAAT game in double figures and his 10<sup>th</sup> game this season eclipsing double-digits<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Jeremy Roach
</b>finished with seven points, his fifth time leading the Bears in Bench points this season<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
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