No. 2 Baylor MBB Hosts No. 13 Texas to Open Big 12 Play

Fri Dec 11 10:49:41 CST 2020

Game notes attached. Media materials available here: http://baylorbea.rs/MediaMBB

BAYLOR (4-0) vs. TEXAS (5-1)
Dec. 13, 2020 • 2 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (4-0, 0-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)

13/12 TEXAS LONGHORNS (5-1, 0-0)
Location: Austin, Texas
Head Coach: Shaka Smart (Kenyon, 1999)

STORY LINES
• No. 2 Baylor takes on No. 13 Texas in the Big 12 opener for both teams Sunday at the Ferrell Center.
• This is the earliest conference game in program history (previously Dec. 29 in 1937 and 2017).
• Sunday is the 257th series meeting – the most-played rivalry in Baylor history dating back 106 years.
• BU is 18-8 vs. Texas since snapping a 24-game series losing streak at the 2009 Big 12 Championship.
• Baylor is 9-1 in its last 10 games vs. Texas since Feb. 20, 2016 (4-0 in Waco, 5-1 in Austin, 1-0 in KC).
• Baylor beat Texas 59-44 in Waco last year, holding Texas to its fewest points since Dec. 4, 2012.
• Baylor is 7-1 against ranked teams over the last two seasons, including a 4-0 mark away from home.
• BU is 48-73 against AP-ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor is 6-0 when opening Big 12 play at home during the Drew era, with wins against 5 different teams.
• BU enters Big 12 play ranked for the 7th time in 8 seasons – 4th time in top-10 (2014, 2017, 2020, 2021).
• 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 has scored 80+ points in 4 straight games for the first time since December 2017.
• BU has won all 4 games by 13+ points and averages a +27.0 margin of victory (3 wins of 30+).
• Baylor's bench has 34+ points in every game and is out-scoring opposing benches 40-17 on average.
• 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 20 of 34 games since the start of the 2019-20 season.
• BU forced a Ferrell Center-record 35 turnovers with 40 points off turnovers in Wednesday's win over SFA.
• Baylor has led by at least 5 points in 34 straight games and built a double-digit lead in 28 of 34 games.
• 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 246th 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 243 of 425 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 (346-213).
• 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.

GAME-BY-GAME
• 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 on Dec. 2, recording the 9th top-5 win in program history.
• BU defeated SFA 83-52 on Dec. 9, turning a Ferrell Center-record 35 turnovers into 40 points off turnovers.

QUICK HITS
• BU was picked to win the Big 12 in the league's preseason coaches' poll for the first time.
• Baylor is 55-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons since 2017-18 (21-2 in 2019-20, 4-0 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (173-21).
• BU is 118-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (30-3 since 2019-20).
• 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 221-97 over 9+ seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
• Baylor's 221 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (269).
• Baylor is 312-144 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).

SERIES HISTORY
• Sunday is the 257th all-time meeting between Baylor and Texas, the most-played rivalry for both schools.
• Baylor is 18-8 in the series since snapping a 24-game series losing streak in March 2009.
• Baylor is 93-163 all-time against Texas, including a 53-66 mark in Waco and an 18-21 mark in the Drew era.
• Baylor has swept the season series vs. Texas 5 times in the last 11 years (2010, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2020). BU swept the series only once in the first 13 years as Big 12 rivals (1998).

LAST SEASON VS. TEXAS
• Baylor held Texas to 44 points in a 59-44 victory in both teams' Big 12 opener on Jan. 4 in Waco.
• The 44 points were the fewest by a Shaka Smart-coached team in his 11-year collegiate career.
• BU held UT to 45 points in a 52-45 win in Austin on Feb. 10, sweeping the season series for a 5th time since 2010.
• Texas' 45 points were its fewest in a home game since Jan. 8, 1983 when Texas lost 51-43 to Kansas State.

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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