No. 1 Baylor MBB Heads West to Take on Oregon

Fri Dec 17 19:43:11 CST 2021

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BAYLOR BEARS (9-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
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Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1625> (Butler, 1993)

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BAYLOR (9-0) vs. OREGON (6-5)
December 18, 2021 • 9:00 p.m. CT
Eugene, Oregon • Matthew Knight Arena (12,364)

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OREGON DUCKS (6-5)
Location: Eugene, Ore.
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Head Coach: Dana Altman (Eastern New Mexico, 1980)

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• No. 1 Baylor heads to Oregon for Saturday's 9 p.m. CT tipoff against the Ducks on ESPN2.

• BU and Oregon are meeting for the 4th time, all in the last 7 seasons (BU is 2-1). UO won the first meeting by 7 points in Eugene in 2015, then BU won by double-digits in Waco in 2016 and 2018.

• Baylor is No. 1 in the Dec. 13 AP Top 25, marking a 3rd-straight season the Bears have held a No. 1 ranking (only BU and Gonzaga) and 4th time in last 6 seasons (only BU, Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas).

• BU received all 61 first-place votes in the AP Top 25, the first time BU has been a unanimous No. 1.

• Saturday is Baylor's 16th all-time game as a No. 1-ranked team – BU is 13-2 while ranked No. 1.

• Baylor is 1 of 7 remaining undefeated teams (BU, Arizona, Colo. St., Iowa St., LSU, USC, San Fran).

• BU is coming off a 57-36 win over No. 6 Villanova. Baylor held Nova to its fewest points since 1979.

• BU has the nation's longest winning streak (15), with 9 at neutral sites and all wins by 8+ points.

• Baylor has won 33 straight non-conference games (+22.8 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2019.

• BU has won 17-straight non-conference road/neutral games (last loss Nov. 8, 2019 vs. Washington).

• Baylor is 15-5 against Pac-12 opponents during the Drew era  — 2-0 vs. Arizona, 5-0 vs. Arizona State,

2-1 vs. Colorado, 2-1 vs. Oregon, 1-0 vs. Stanford, 1-0 vs. USC, 1-1 vs. Washington and 1-2 vs. WSU.

• BU is allowing only 5.6 second-chance points per game, while scoring 13.3 second-chance points.

• Baylor is averaging 13 more field goal attempts per game than its opponents (BU 66, OPP 52.7).

• Baylor and Texas Tech are the nation's only teams ranked top-40 in scoring offense and defense.

• Baylor ranks top-10 nationally in scoring margin (2nd, +26.9), scoring defense (3rd, 54.1), steals (4th, 11.0), turnover margin (4th, +7.1), turnovers forced (7th, 19.3), rebounding margin (9th, +11.1),  offensive rebounds (7th, 14.9) and assists (10th, 18.1).

• Baylor and LSU are the nation's only teams to hold every opponent to 63 or fewer points this season.

• BU defeated now-No. 12-ranked Michigan State, 75-58, in the Nov. 26 Battle 4 Atlantis title game.

• BU's 43-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is the nation's 3rd-longest behind Gonzaga and Villanova.

• Baylor was No. 8 in the preseason AP Top-25, snapping a school-record streak of 29-straight weeks top-5 ranked. The Bears are currently on a school-record streak of 35-straight weeks top-10 ranked.

• BU is 18-3 against ranked teams since beating No. 17 Villanova to win the 2019 Myrtle Beach Invite.

• BU has won 8-straight games against top-10 ranked teams, defeating Nos. 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 6, 1 and 6.

• Baylor has been ranked in all 25 spots in the AP Top 25 at some point in the last 7 years.

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 379 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• Drew has swept AP and coaches' Big 12 Coach of the Year honors each of the last two seasons.

• BU has led by at least 4 points in all 69 games since the start of the 2019-20 season and built a double-digit lead in 60 of 69 games, including 36 of 39 games since the start of last season.

• Baylor has won 4 of its last 5 regular-season tournaments – 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis (Louisville), 2017 Hall of Fame Classic (Creighton), 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational (Villanova), 2021 Battle 4 Atlantis (Michigan State).

QUICK HITS

• Baylor's 63-6 record since the start of the 2019-20 season is the nation's best among Power-5 conference teams.

• BU is playing its 288th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, BU has been ranked in 272 of 409 games.

• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 4 of the last 6 seasons since 2017.

• Baylor and Kansas are the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.

• BU finished last season ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 8) for a 7th consecutive year.

• BU led the nation in 3-point pct. last season (.413) and ranked 3rd nationally in turnover margin (+5.5) and scoring margin (+17.4). The Bears were also top-10 in scoring (6th, 82.9), steals (9th, 8.9/gm) and assists (10th, 16.9/gm).

• Baylor's streak of 9 consecutive postseasons is tied as the nation's 7th-longest active streak.

• Baylor's 2 losses last seasons were its fewest losses since going 13-0 in 1911-12.

• Baylor is 40-21 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 13 seasons.

• Baylor has won 20+ games in 12 of the last 14 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).

• Baylor is 14-3 in Big 12 road games over the last 2 seasons (rest of league is 59-99 in B12 road games).

• Baylor is 84-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4+ seasons (54-2 over last 2+ seasons, 24-0 last season).

• In the last two seasons, Baylor has recorded the longest winning streak in the Big 12 Conference's 26-year history (23 wins in 2019-20) and 4th-longest winning streak in Big 12 history (18 wins in 2020-21).

• Baylor has won 91% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (202-21).

• BU is 63-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 2+ seasons.

• Baylor is 254-99 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 254 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (292).

• Baylor is 345-146 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.

• Five of Baylor's players have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Two after transferring to BU (Flagler, Tchamwa Tchatchoua), one before transferring (Bonner) and two as freshmen — Turner and Langston Love.

• Ten of Baylor's 11 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (16 of last 17 seasons).

• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (7 NCAAs, 2 NITs).

• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 971 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 7-1 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 11-2 in conference challenges.

• Baylor has won 8 tournament titles under Drew – 2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 & 2021 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic, 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational and 2021 NCAA Championship.

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