No. 2/1 Baylor MBB Opens Season in Vegas vs. Louisiana-Lafayette

Fri Nov 27 19:46:41 CST 2020

Complete game notes attached.

BAYLOR (0-0) vs. LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE (0-0)
Nov. 28, 2020 • 7 p.m. CT
Las Vegas, Nev. • T-Mobile Arena (20,000)

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

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE (0-0, 0-0)
Location: Lafayette, La.
Head Coach: Bob Marlin (Mississippi State, 1981)

STORY LINES
• No. 2/1 Baylor opens the season Saturday vs. Louisiana-Lafayette at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena.
• Baylor is No. 1 in the preseason coaches' poll and No. 2 in the AP Top 25 – both highest preseason rankings in program history. This is the 7th time Baylor has been ranked No. 1 nationally.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 8 of 11 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor is facing ULL for the 11th time and is 7-3 in the all-time series, including 1-0 in the Drew era.
• Baylor is 2-0 against Bob Marlin coached teams under Drew, defeating SHSU in 2010 and ULL in 2013.
• Baylor returns 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).
• BU will be without 2020 Big 12 Coach of the Year Scott Drew, who is in the middle of a 10-day isolation period after testing positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 20. Drew will rejoin the team in Indianapolis.
• Associate head coach Jerome Tang will serve as acting head coach. Tang has been on Drew's staff for all 18 years at Baylor, and he previously served as interim head coach for 2 games in 2012-13 (2-0).
• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 12 straight weeks top-5 ranked (previously 6 straight in 2017).
• BU led by at least 5 points in every game last season and built a double-digit lead in 24 of 30 games.
• Baylor's streak of 21 consecutive AP polls ranked is 3rd-longest in program history (all since 2010).
• Baylor's defense forced 15+ turnovers in 18 of 30 games last season.
• 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 242nd 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 239 of 421 games.
• BU finished ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 8) for a 7th consecutive year.
• 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 (342-211).
• Baylor is 1 of 6 Power-5 programs to win 18+ games in each of the last 12 seasons since 2008, joining Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State and North Carolina.
• BU has advanced to 8 consecutive postseasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.
• The Bears have now been ranked in every AP Top 25 spot except No. 8 during the 17-year Drew era.
• BU is 10-2 all-time as a No. 1-ranked team, including 9-1 in 5 weeks as No. 1 last season.
• BU was picked to win the Big 12 in the league's preseason coaches' poll for the first time.
• 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 Sochon for the 2021-22 season.
• Baylor has posted a 71-11 mark in November and December games since 2013.

QUICK HITS
• 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 51-5 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (21-2 last season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (169-21).
• BU is 114-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (26-3 last season).
• Baylor is 217-97 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 217 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (264).
• Baylor is 308-144 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• BU returns 8 players with at least 30 games of DI experience, including a pair of sophomore transfers who will join 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 three 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 933 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 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).

FOUR ALL-BIG 12 PLAYERS RETURN
• All five Baylor starters were named to 2020 All-Big 12 teams, making BU the first team in the league's 24-year history with five players on All-Big 12 teams, and four of those players are back for the 2020-21 season.
• Jared Butler became Baylor's first underclassman named first-team All-Conference since Terry Teagle in 1980, and he was named a consensus third-team All-American.
• MaCio Teague has been all-conference in all three of his previous seasons. He was a first-team All-Big South honoree while at UNC Asheville in 2017 and 2018 and earned second-team All-Big 12 honors in 2020.
• Mark Vital and Davion Mitchell are back after earning third-team All-Big 12 and Big 12 All-Defensive Team honors.

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