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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS July 7, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor MBB Releases Four-Year Series Matchup with Memphis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears and Tigers will alternate home games through 2028-2029 season<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
</span><a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WACO, Texas </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Baylor mens basketball announced a four-year non-conference series with the Memphis
Tigers on Monday, set to begin in 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Bears will meet the Tigers on Dec. 6, 2025, at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn. at 3:30 pm CT, televised by CBS. The following year, Memphis will travel to Waco on Dec.
5, 2026, and compete at Foster Pavilion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">During the 2027-28 season, Memphis will return to Baylor. The final game in the series will take place in the 2028-29 campaign at Memphis in the FedExForum.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Baylor and Memphis have only faced each other eight times in program history and only once in the Scott Drew era. The last matchup was Nov. 27, 2014, at the Las Vegas Invitational,
where the Bears won 71-47. Memphis holds the overall series record with a 6-2 advantage over Baylor.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">One of just five schools to be ranked inside the top 10 in each of the last six seasons, Baylor is coming off a school-record sixth-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.
In addition to extending the nation's fifth-longest active postseason streak, BU won a tournament game for a sixth straight year, becoming one of just three teams in the country to boast that distinction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR VS. MEMPHIS SERIES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dec. 6, 2025 at Memphis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dec. 5, 2026 at Baylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2027-28 at Baylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2028-29 at Memphis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Baylor is expected to unveil the remainder of its schedule later this summer. For additional updates, follow @BaylorMBB on X, Instagram and Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:both"><b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0F5C1A">Josie Hutton</span></b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"> | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (MBB, MTEN) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:both"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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