No. 16 Baylor MBB Tips Off 2019-20 Season vs. UCA

[Kaye, David]

Complete game notes attached.

BEARS BASKETBALL PRE-GAME INFORMATION 2019-20
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16/18 BAYLOR BEARS (0-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> (Butler, 1993)
Roster<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball> | Stats<https://static.baylorbears.com/custompages/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2018-2019/pdf/1819MBBSTATS.pdf> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/11/4/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_01_CENTRAL_ARKANSAS.pdf>
BAYLOR (0-0) vs. CENTRAL ARKANSAS (0-0)
Nov. 5, 2019 • 11 a.m. CT
Waco, Texas. • Ferrell Center (10,284)

LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast<https://kuathletics.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary>
WATCH: BIG 12 NOW ON ESPN+
Talent: John Morris<https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=52> (pxp), King McClure<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7064> (analyst)
LISTEN: Baylor-IMG College | ESPN Central Texas
Talent: Dave Rosselli (pxp), Pat Nunley (analyst)
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CENTRAL ARKANSAS
Location: Conway, Ark.
Conference: Southland
Head Coach: Russ Pennell
(Pittsburgh State, 1989)
Roster<https://ucasports.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball> | Stats<https://ucasports.com/cumestats.aspx?path=mbball&year=2018>

STORY LINES
• Baylor opens the 2019-20 season by hosting Central Arkansas at 11 a.m. CT Tuesday.
• Tuesday is "I'm Going to College Day," with children from local schools taking a field trip to attend.
• Baylor is coming off its 10th 20-win season in the last 12 years. The Bears were a No. 9 seed in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, where they knocked of Syracuse before falling to No. 1 seed Gonzaga.
• The game will be televised by Big 12 Now on ESPN+, the conference's new digital platform.
• Tuesday's telecast will be called by John Morris and King McClure. Morris is in his 36th year doing Baylor broadcasts, while McClure is making his TV debut after concluding his 4-year BU playing career in March.
• BU is No. 16 in the Preseason AP Top 25, tied for the 2nd-best preseason ranking in program history.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 7 of 10 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Head coach Scott Drew begins his 17th season in Waco as the BU's all-time wins leader (316-209).
• Drew is 14-2 in season openers at Baylor, including 12-1 since 2006 (losses in 2005 and 2018).
• Baylor and UCA meet for the 2nd time. BU opened the 2017-18 season with a 107-66 win vs. UCA.
• Baylor returns 9 players with at least 26 games of Division I experience, including a pair of transfers who will make their BU debuts after sitting out last season – Davion Mitchell and MaCio Teague.
• BU returns 8 letterwinners from last season, including 5 players who made at least 7 starts – Mark Vital (34), Jared Butler (21), Tristan Clark (14), Freddie Gillespie (11) and Devonte Bandoo (7).
• BU also returns sophomores Matthew Mayer and Flo Thamba and senior Obim Okeke.
• BU was picked 2nd in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, tying the highest in program history (2012-13). The Bears were picked 9th in last year's poll, but overcame a multitude of injuries to finish 4th.
• BU has advanced to the postseason in 8 straight seasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.
• Baylor's streak of 11 consecutive seasons ranked was snapped last season, but the Bears have now been ranked in 12 of 13 seasons since 2007-08. BU was ranked only twice prior to the Drew era.
• Baylor is 124-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 98-8 since 2007-08.
• Baylor is 36-10 in games against non-Big 12 teams since 2016-17.
• Drew is coaching his 526th game at Baylor (316-209). His .602 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .668 winning percentage since 2007-08 (282-140).
• Baylor is 59-4 in its last 61 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.
• Baylor has posted a combined 145-33 record in November and December games during the Drew era, including a 63-10 mark in November and December games since 2013.
• BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct. in 6 straight seasons (No. 2 last year).
• BU has been top-25 nationally in adj. offensive efficiency in 7 of the last 8 seasons (No. 20 last year).
• Five of Baylor's 12 active players have used a redshirt year at Baylor, and the Bears have two more players sitting out this season as redshirts – Adam Flagler and Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua.
• Baylor will have a new point guard in 2019-20 after the departure of Makai Mason. Eight of Baylor's nine starting point guards during the Drew era have earned All-Big recognition (14 of last 15 seasons).

QUICK HITS
• BU is 41-72 against AP-ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor is 12-23 against AP Top 10 teams since March 2012. BU started the Drew era 1-26 vs. top-10.
• Baylor defeated 7 top-10 teams in the last 3 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco.
• Baylor is 30-3 when leading at halftime over the last two seasons (15-3 last season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (148-19).
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 10 of the last 12 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball.
• The Bears are one of 11 programs to win 18+ games in every year since 2008.
• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• BU is 88-20 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (20-5 last season).
• Baylor is 191-93 over the last 8 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 191 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (236).
• Baylor is 282-140 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• Baylor is 5-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league.
• Baylor has the nation's 11th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 903 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 29 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).
• BU has recorded double-digit non-conference wins in 11 of the last 12 seasons (all except 2012-13).
• Baylor has won 5 tournament titles under Drew (2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis and 2017 Hall of Fame Classic).

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
• Drew is in his 17th season at Baylor and is the school's all-time wins leader (316).
• Baylor has had a nation-leading four players selected in the NBA Draft since 2010 who weren't ranked in the ESPN100 out of high school — Quincy Acy, Ekpe Udoh, Pierre Jackson and Taurean Prince.
• Drew has graduated 49 players during his Baylor tenure, averaging more than 3 graduates per season.
• The Bears have advanced to postseason play in a school-record eight straight seasons (6 NCAA, 2 NIT).
• Baylor is 20-4 in regular-season tournaments since 2013-14, including 3 regular-season tournament titles.
• Drew has won 20+ games in 10 of the last 12 years — the Bears had 3 seasons of 20+ wins prior to his arrival.

SERIES HISTORY
• Tuesday is the second series meeting between Baylor and Central Arkansas.
• The previous Battle of the Bears was the 2017-18 season opener on Nov. 10, a 107-66 Baylor win in Waco.
• Tristan Clark and Mark Vital are the only current BU players who faced UCA. Clark had 15 points in 27 minutes, while Vital had 6 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds in 20 minutes.
• Tuesday's ESPN analyst King McClure had 15 points and 4 rebounds in 24 minutes, going 3-of-3 on 3FGs.
DATE     LOCATION     WINNER     SCORE     BU LEADING SCORER     UCA LEADING SCORER
N10, 2017 Waco, Texas     BU         107-66            22-Manu Lecomte                 22-Jordan Howard

RANKED 16TH IN PRESEASON AP TOP 25
• Baylor is ranked No. 16 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll, which ties the 2nd-highest preseason ranking in BU history.
• BU has been in the preseason AP Top 25 in 7 of 10 seasons since the program's first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor's highest preseason ranking was No. 12 in 2011-12. The Bears were No. 16 in 2010-11 and 2019-20, No. 19 in 2012-13, No. 22 in 2015-16, No. 24 in 2017-18 and No. 25 in 2013-14.

PICKED 2ND IN BIG 12 PRESEASON COACHES POLL
• Baylor was picked second in the 2020 Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, tying 2013 for the best in program history.
• Baylor (71 points) was projected behind only Kansas (80). Texas Tech (62) was third, followed by Texas (57), West Virginia (45), Oklahoma State (42), Iowa State (30), Oklahoma (29), Kansas State (23) and TCU (11).
• BU was projected to finish 9th last season, but the Bears overcame injuries to four projected starters to finish 4th.

SUCCESS IN SEASON OPENERS
• Baylor is 14-2 in season openers during the Scott Drew era, with the only losses coming at Texas Tech in 2005- 06, when the Bears did not play a non-conference schedule, and in the 2018-19 season opener vs. Texas Southern.
• Baylor is 12-1 in season openers dating back to 2006-07, with an average scoring margin of +27.5.

NON-CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
• BU went 10-5 in non-conference last season, with marquee wins at Arizona, vs. Oregon, vs. Alabama and vs. Syracuse.
• BU held Oregon to 47 points on Dec. 15, the Ducks' fewest in a game since scoring 46 vs. Cal on Feb. 21, 2013.
• BU won 58-49 at Arizona on Dec. 1, becoming the first team to hold UA below 50 points since Feb. 26, 2011.
• The win at Arizona snapped the Wildcats 52-game non-conference home winning streak.
• Baylor improved to 11-4 vs. the Pac-12 in the Drew era and 10-5 against SEC teams since 2012-13.
• Baylor is 36-10 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 3 seasons, including home victories against No. 4 Oregon, No. 7 Xavier, Oregon and Alabama, neutral site wins vs. No. 10 Louisville, vs. No. 24 Michigan State, vs. VCU, vs. USC, vs. Wisconsin, vs. Creighton and vs. Syracuse and road wins at Arizona and Ole Miss.

FIVE NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES IN LAST SIX SEASONS
• Baylor appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the last six seasons in 2019.
• BU is 1 of 22 teams (1 of 15 in Power-5) to appear in five NCAA Tournaments since 2014, joining Arizona, Cincinnati, Duke, Gonzaga, Iowa State, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Michigan State, New Mexico State, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Providence, Purdue, VCU, Villanova, Virginia, Wichita State, Wisconsin and Xavier.

A WIN WOULD ...
• Improve Baylor's record to 15-2 in season openers under head coach Scott Drew.
• Be Drew's 317th win at Baylor and improve Baylor's record to 281-140 since 2007-08.
• Make Baylor 2-0 all-time against Central Arkansas and 52-14 against current Southland Conference members.
• Improve Baylor's record to 37-7 in home games against unranked opponents since 2016-17.
• Make Baylor 125-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 99-8 since 2007-08.
• Move Baylor to 37-10 in games against non-Big 12 teams since 2016-17.
• Make Baylor 146-33 in November/December games under Drew, including 73-14 in November games.

IMPRESSIVE NON-CONFERENCE NUMBERS AT HOME
• Baylor is 59-4 in its last 61 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.
• Baylor is 37-7 in home games against unranked opponents since 2016-17.
• Baylor is 124-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 98-8 since 2007-08.

UP NEXT
• Baylor heads to Anchorage, Alaska, to face Washington in the 2019 Armed Forces Classic on Friday, Nov. 8.
• The Bears then return home to host Texas State on Friday, Nov. 15, the night before Baylor Football hosts Oklahoma in a marquee Big 12 matchup.
• Following the Texas State game, Baylor heads to South Carolina to play in the Myrtle Beach Invitational, which runs Nov. 21-24. The Bears open against Ohio, then face either Coastal Carolina or Utah, followed by one of four teams from the opposite side of the bracket – Villanova, Tulane, Mississippi State or Middle Tennessee.


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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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