No. 1 Baylor MBB Hosts Northwestern State

Mon Dec 27 11:49:14 CST 2021

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BAYLOR BEARS (11-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
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Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1625> (Butler, 1993)

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NORTHWESTERN STATE (3-10) vs. BAYLOR (11-0)
December 28, 2021 • 7:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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NORTHWESTERN STATE DEMONS (3-10)
Location: Natchitoches, La.
Conference/Affiliation: Southland
Head Coach: Mike McConathy
 (La. Tech, 1977)

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STORY LINES

• No. 1 Baylor hosts Northwestern State at 7 pm CT Tuesday in its final game before Big 12 play.

• BU and NSU are meeting for the 10th time. BU is 8-1 in the series, including 2-0 in the Drew era. Baylor won 75-62 in the last meeting on Dec. 8, 2015. Rico Gathers had 31 points and 21 rebounds.

• BU has the nation's longest winning streak (17), with 9 at neutral sites and all wins by 8+ points.

• With a win, Baylor can tie the 4th-longest winning streak by any team in the Big 12's 26-year history.

• Baylor has won 35 straight non-conference games (+22.8 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2019.

• BU has won a school-record 20-straight home games, averaging a +26.6 scoring margin in those wins.

• Baylor is 32-1 at home over the last 2+ seasons, with the lone loss by 3 to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.

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

• Tuesday is Baylor's 18th all-time game as a No. 1-ranked team – BU is 15-2 while ranked No. 1.

• Baylor is 1 of 5 remaining undefeated teams (Baylor, Colorado State, Iowa State, LSU, USC).

• Baylor is the nation's only team to win every game by 8+ points this season and the first returning national champion to win its first 11 games by 8+ points since 1990-91 UNLV.

• BU overcame a 10-point deficit to win 78-70 for Scott Drew's 400th career win Dec. 18 at Oregon.

• The Bears held No. 6 Villanova to its fewest points since 1979 in a 57-36 win on Dec. 12 in Waco.

• BU has won 18-straight non-conference road/neutral games (last loss Nov. 8, 2019 vs. Washington).

• Baylor's bench has out-scored the opponents' bench in 10 of 11 games and by an average of 32-21.

• BU is allowing only 6.5 second-chance points per game, while scoring 13.2 second-chance points.

• Baylor is averaging 12 more field goal attempts per game than its opponents (BU 65, OPP 53).

• Baylor is the nation's only team ranked top-35 in scoring offense (20th) and scoring defense (6th).

• Baylor ranks top-15 nationally in scoring margin (1st, +26.1), steals (5th, 10.8), turnover margin (5th, +6.8), scoring defense (6th, 55.8), assists (6th, 19.2), turnovers forced (9th, 18.9), offensive rebounds (9th, 14.3), rebounding margin (13th, +9.8) and assist-to-turnover ratio (13th, 1.60).

• Baylor's defense has recorded 7+ steals and 13+ turnovers forced in all 11 games this season.

• BU has 10+ offensive rebounds in 15-straight games, the nation's 2nd-longest streak (Bowling Green-17).

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

• BU's 45-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 37-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.

• BU has led by at least 4 points in all 71 games since the start of the 2019-20 season and built a double-digit lead in 62 of those games, including 38 of 41 games since the start of last season.

QUICK HITS

• Baylor's 39-2 record over the last two seasons is the nation's best, and the Bears' 65-6 record over the last three seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (72-5).

• BU is playing its 290th 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 274 of 411 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 season 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 85-5 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (55-2 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

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

• BU is 64-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 2+ seasons.

• Baylor is 255-99 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 255 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (294).

• Baylor is 346-146 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 9th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 973 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.

BEARS MAKING BIG 12 HISTORY

• In the last three seasons, Baylor has recorded the longest winning streak in the Big 12 Conference's 26-year history (23 in 2019-20), 4th-longest in Big 12 history (18 in 2020-21) and 8th-longest in Big 12 history (17, active).

LONGEST WINNING STREAKS IN BIG 12 HISTORY

1. 23 – Baylor, 2019-20

2. 22 – Kansas, 1996-97

3. 20 – Kansas, 2007-08

T4. 18 – Baylor, 2020-21; Kansas 2016-17; Kansas 2012-13; Kansas, 2010-11

T8. 17 – Baylor, 2020-22; Kansas 2015-16; Baylor 2011-12, Texas 2009-10

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