Baylor MBB Opens 2022 With Historic Top-10 Showdown at Iowa State

Fri Dec 31 16:19:10 CST 2021

Complete game notes attached.

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#1 BAYLOR BEARS (12-0)
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#8 IOWA STATE (12-0) vs. #1 BAYLOR (12-0)
January 1, 2022 • 1:00 p.m. CT
Ames, Iowa • Hilton Coliseum (14,356)

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#8 IOWA STATE CYCLONES (12-0)
Location: Ames, Iowa
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Head Coach: T.J. Otzelberger
 (Wisc.-Whitewater, 2011)

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STORY LINES

• No. 1 Baylor opens Big 12 play with a top-10 showdown at No. 8 Iowa State at 1 pm CT Saturday.

• This is the first time in the Big 12 history that two 10-0 or better teams will meet in conference play.

• This is the 4th time in the last 40 years that two 12-0 or better Division I teams will meet.

• Saturday is the 43rd series meeting, and the home team is 30-7 in the series in campus-site games.

• Baylor is 12-3 against Iowa State since 2015 and 18-13 vs. ISU during the 19-year Scott Drew era.

• Baylor lost its first 12 trips to Ames, but BU is 5-2 in Ames since getting its first win at Hilton in 2015.

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

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

• BU has the nation's longest winning streak (18), with 9 at neutral sites and all wins by 8+ points.

• Baylor's 18-game winning streak is tied for 4th-longest by any team in the Big 12's 26-year history.

• Baylor's 28-4 Big 12 conference record over the last two seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• 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 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).

• Saturday is Baylor's 19th all-time game as a No. 1-ranked team – BU is 16-2 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 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 12 games and by an average of 31-22.

• BU is allowing only 6.3 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 66, OPP 54).

• BU is top-11 nationally in scoring offense (11th) and defense (10th). No other team is top-35 in both.

• Baylor ranks top-10 nationally in scoring margin (1st, +26.9), assists (4th, 19.7), turnover margin (5th, +6.9), offensive rebounds (7th, 14.3), steals (8th, 10.7), assist-to-turnover ratio (8th, 1.67), scoring defense (10th, 56.8), turnovers forced (10th, 18.7) and rebounding margin (10th, +10.3).

• Baylor's defense has recorded 7+ steals and 13+ turnovers forced in all 12 games this season.

• BU has 10+ offensive rebounds in 16-straight games, the nation's 2nd-longest streak (Bowling Green-17).

• BU ranks 7th nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound percentage (39.5), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• 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.

• 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 72 games since the start of the 2019-20 season and built a double-digit lead in 63 of those games, including 39 of 42 games since the start of last season.

QUICK HITS

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 382 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• Baylor's 40-2 record over the last two seasons is the nation's best, and the Bears' 66-6 record over the last three seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (73-5).

• Baylor has won 36 straight non-conference games (+23.2 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2019.

• BU has won a school-record 21-straight home games, averaging a +27.0 scoring margin in those wins.

• Baylor is 33-1 at home over the last 2+ seasons, with the lone loss by 3 to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.

• BU is playing its 291st 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 275 of 412 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.

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

• 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 86-5 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (56-2 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 91% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (203-21).

• BU is 66-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 257-99 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 257 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (294).

• Baylor is 348-146 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 974 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), and twice tied the 4th-longest in Big 12 history (18 in 2020-21; 18 active in 2021-22).

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, 2021-22; Baylor, 2020-21; Kansas 2016-17; Kansas 2012-13; Kansas, 2010-11

T9. 17 – 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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