No. 2/2 Baylor MBB Hosts Stephen F. Austin for Home Opener

Tue Dec 8 15:28:57 CST 2020

Game Notes attached.
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BAYLOR (3-0) vs. SFA (3-0)
Dec. 9, 2020 • 7 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (3-0, 0-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)

SFA LUMBERJACKS (3-0, 0-0)
Location: Nacogdoches, Texas
Head Coach: Kyle Keller (Oklahoma State, 1990)

STORY LINES
• No. 2 Baylor takes on SFA at 7 pm CT Wednesday in the Bears' first home game of the 2020-21 season.
• Baylor and Stephen F. Austin are meeting for the 18th time. BU leads the series 10-7 (5-3 in Waco).
• The Bears look to avenge a last-second loss to SFA in the last meeting on Dec. 18, 2018. Baylor led 58-52 with 2:23 remaining, but BU didn't score again, and SFA closed on a 7-0 run to win 59-58.
• The SFA game was added after Tuesday's game vs. Nicholls State was canceled. BU has now played only 1 of 6 games originally scheduled, but this is the 3rd game the Bears have added as replacements.
• Baylor returned four All-Big 12 players from a 2019-20 team which went 26-4 and spent five weeks ranked No. 1 nationally. The Bears finished last season ranked No. 4 in the coaches poll (No. 5 in AP).
• Baylor opened with a 112-82 win over ULL on Nov. 28. BU's 112 points were its most since 2017.
• BU then beat Washington 86-52 on Nov. 29 in Las Vegas, out-rebounding the Huskies 50-19.
• Baylor won 82-69 over No. 5 Illinois in Indianapolis, recording the 9th top-5 win in program history.
• BU was scheduled to take on No. 1 Gonzaga on Saturday in Indianapolis, but the game was canceled.
• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 14 straight weeks top-5 ranked (previously 6 straight in 2017).
• BU's streak of 23 consecutive AP polls ranked is the 2nd-longest in program history (25 in 2016-17).
• Baylor's defense forced 15+ turnovers in 19 of 33 games since the start of the 2019-20 season.
• BU has led by at least 5 points in 33 consecutive games and built a double-digit lead in 27 of 33 games.
• Baylor is 7-1 against ranked teams over the last two seasons, including a 4-0 mark away from home.
• Among BU returners is Jared Butler, who is the first preseason AP All-American in program history.
• BU also welcomes back MaCio Teague, an all-conference pick in all 3 of his collegiate seasons.
• BU returns two players who were semifinalists for the 2020 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year. Mark Vital was 1 of 4 finalists, while Davion Mitchell joined Vital among the 10 semifinalists.
• Baylor is playing its 245th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since 2008-09, BU has been ranked in 242 of 424 games.
• BU has been top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding percentage a nation's-best 7 straight years.
• Baylor is 1 of 5 Power-5 programs to win at least 18 games in each of the last 12 seasons since 2007-08, joining Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State.
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 11 of the last 13 years. The Bears reached the 20-win mark only 3 times in 101 seasons prior to 2008. BU is averaging 24 wins per season since 2008.
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 18th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (345-213).
• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 3 of the last 5 seasons.
• Baylor signed the highest-ranked recruiting class in program history (No. 4) earlier this month. BU inked 5-star Kendall Brown, 4-star Langston Love and 4-star Jeremy Sochan for the 2021-22 season.
• Baylor is 50-11 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 5 seasons since 2016-17.
• Baylor is 55-5 in regular-season non-conference games against unranked teams since December 2014.
• Baylor is 104-8 in non-conference home games since 2007-08, including 65-4 since December 2012.

QUICK HITS
• Baylor is 54-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons since 2017-18 (21-2 in 2019-20, 3-0 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (172-21).
• BU is 117-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (26-3 last season).
• Baylor's 23-game winning streak last season was the longest ever by a Big 12 team (previously 22 by 1996-97 KU).
• BU's 13-game conference winning streak was the longest in school history (previously 11 in 1946 SWC).
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 11 of the last 13 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
• Baylor is 220-97 over 9+ seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
• Baylor's 220 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (265).
• Baylor is 311-144 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• BU returned 8 players with at least 30 games of DI experience, including a pair of sophomore transfers who joinec the rotation after sitting out last season – Adam Flagler and Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua.
• Eight of Baylor's players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Four after transferring to BU – Flagler, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and four as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner, Vital and Dainja.
• Nine of Baylor's 10 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (15 of last 16 seasons).
• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 936 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).
• BU is 6-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league. Combined with a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Series and 1-0 in the Big 12/Big East Battle, Baylor is 10-2 in conference challenges.
• Baylor has won 6 tournament titles under Drew (2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic and 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational).

SERIES HISTORY VS. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
• Wednesday's game is the 18th series meeting between Baylor and Stephen F. Austin in a series that dates back to the 1930-31 season. Baylor leads the series 10-7, including a 5-3 mark in Waco and a 2-2 record in the Drew era.
• Baylor and SFA last met on Dec. 18, 2018, when SFA won 59-58 on a last-second shot, snapping Baylor's streak of 12 consecutive wins against Southland Conference teams.

DREW'S CREW VS. SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE
• Scott Drew is 15-3 against Southland Conference teams during his 18 seasons at Baylor. The Bears went 1-2 against the Southland in Drew's first two seasons at BU, but Baylor is 14-1 vs. Southland teams since 2005.
• Drew's teams have faced Sam Houston State (3-0), SFA (2-2), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (2-1), Northwestern State (2-0), New Orleans (1-0), Lamar (1-0), McNeese State (1-0), Nicholls State (1-0) and Central Arkansas (2-0).
• Baylor is 52-14 all-time against current Southland Conference teams. The Bears have faced 11 Southland teams: SFA (10-7), Sam Houston State (9-3), Lamar (10-1), Northwestern State (8-1), Abilene Christian (3-1), TAMU-CC (3-1), McNeese State (3-0), Southeastern Louisiana (2-0), Nicholls State (1-0), New Orleans (1-0) and Central Arkansas (2-0).

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
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