No. 2 Baylor MBB Hosts Central Arkansas

Mon Dec 28 18:40:06 CST 2020

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

BAYLOR (6-0, 1-0) vs. CENTRAL ARKANSAS (1-6)
Dec. 29, 2020 • 3 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10.284)
LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com
WATCH: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Talent: John Morris (pxp) and King McClure (analyst)

LISTEN: Baylor Sports Network | ESPN Central Texas
Talent: Dave Rosselli (pxp) and David Kaye (analyst)

2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (6-0, 1-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)

NR/NR CENTRAL ARKANSAS BEARS (1-6, 0-0)
Location: Conway, Ark.
Head Coach: Anthony Boone (Ole Miss, 1998)

STORY LINES
• No. 2 Baylor returns to action after a 7-day break by hosting Central Arkansas at 3 pm CT Tuesday.
• BU is facing UCA for the third time in the last four seasons. Baylor opened the 2017-18 season with a 107-66 win vs. UCA and opened the 2019-20 season with a 105-61 victory vs. UCA.
• Baylor is the Big 12's final undefeated team. The Bears lead the league in scoring (93.7), scoring margin (+32.7), field goal pct. (.521), 3-point pct. (.470), 3-pointers made (11.7/gm), assists (21.5/gm), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.84), rebounding margin (+10.7) and steals (9.0/gm).
• Baylor has scored 80+ points in 6 straight games for the first time since 1994.
• Baylor has won 6 consecutive games by double-digits for the first time since December 2016.
• Baylor is the nation's only team to win every game by 13+ points this season (min. 3 games played).
• BU is looking to start a season 7-0 for the first time since starting 15-0 on its way to No. 1 in 2016-17.
• Baylor leads the nation in 3-point percentage (.470) and ranks 6th in 3-pointer made (11.7/game).
• BU ranks 2nd nationally in scoring margin (+32.7) and has won 5 of 6 games by 30+ points.
• BU is 6th nationally in scoring (93.7), assists (21.5) and AST-TO ratio (1.84) and 7th in TO margin (+7.8)
• Baylor's bench has 33+ points in every game and is out-scoring opposing benches 41-17 on average.
• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 17 straight weeks top-5 ranked (previously 6 straight in 2017).
• BU's streak of 26-straight AP polls ranked is the nation's 5th-longest active streak and longest in BU history.
• Baylor has been ranked top-5 for 17-straight weeks. BU was top-5 for 12 weeks all-time prior to this streak.
• Baylor's defense forced 15+ turnovers in 21 of 36 games since the start of the 2019-20 season.
• BU's bench out-scored UAPB's bench 55-0 in the Dec. 21 win. LJ Cryer led all Bears with 15 points.
• BU became the first team since 1992 to score 100 points in Manhattan in the Dec. 19 win at K-State.
• BU forced a Ferrell Center-record 35 turnovers with 40 points off turnovers in the Dec. 9 win over SFA.
• Baylor has led by at least 5 points in 36 straight games and built a double-digit lead in 30 of 36 games.
• 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).
• 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 248th 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 245 of 427 games.
• Baylor is 52-11 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 5 seasons since 2016-17.
• Baylor is 106-8 in non-conference home games since 2007-08, including 67-4 since December 2012.
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 18th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (348-213).
• 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.

QUICK HITS
• BU was picked to win the Big 12 in the league's preseason coaches' poll for the first time.
• Baylor is 57-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons since 2017-18 (21-2 in 2019-20, 6-0 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (175-21).
• BU is 120-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (32-3 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 223-97 over the last 10 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
• Baylor's 223 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (272).
• Baylor is 314-144 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 joined 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 938 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
• Tuesday is the third series meeting between Baylor and Central Arkansas.
• The first Battle of the Bears was the 2017-18 season opener on Nov. 10, a 107-66 Baylor win in Waco.
• The second meeting was the 2019-20 season opener on Nov. 5, 2019, a 105-61 Baylor win in Waco.
• Mark Vital is the only player on Baylor's roster to have faced UCA in both previous meetings.

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