No. 8 Baylor MBB Opens Season vs. Incarnate Word - Pregame Ring Ceremony and Banner Unveiling Available on ESPN+

Thu Nov 11 15:56:36 CST 2021

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BAYLOR BEARS (0-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1625> (Butler, 1993)

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INCARNATE WORD (0-1) VS. BAYLOR (0-0)
November 12, 2021 • 7:30 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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INCARNATE WORD CARDINALS (0-1)
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Southland
Head Coach: Dr. Carson Cunningham (Purdue, 2000)

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Story Lines
• No. 8/8 Baylor opens the 2021-22 season hosting Incarnate Word at 7:30 pm Friday at Ferrell Center.

• The Bears will unveil the 2021 National Championship banner and will have a pregame ring ceremony for returning players and coaches beginning at 6:45 pm CT. The ceremony will be shown live on ESPN+.

• Baylor is 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 30-straight weeks top-10 ranked.

• With its No. 8 ranking, BU has now been ranked in all 25 spots in the AP Poll under Drew (all since 2010).

• BU's 38-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is the nation's 3rd-longest behind Gonzaga and Villanova.

• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 9 of 12 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.

• Baylor is facing Incarnate Word for the first time in program history.

• Head coach Scott Drew enters his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 370 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 60 games over the last two seasons and built a double-digit lead in 51 of 60 games, including 27 of 30 games last season.

• Baylor has won 24 straight non-conference games (+21.4 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2020.

• Baylor is 25-1 at home over the last 2 seasons, with the lone loss by 3 to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.

• Baylor went 11-2 vs. AP Top 25 teams last season, including 7-0 against AP Top 10 teams.

• Baylor returns seven letterwinners from the 2021 national championship team, with Flo Thamba as the lone returning starter. The four departed starters are all playing in the NBA, G-League or NFL.

• Among BU returners is Matthew Mayer, who is likely to make his career-first start after coming off the bench in 93 games over his first 3 seasons. He is on 6-player the Preseason All-Big 12 team.

• The Bears also welcome back Adam Flagler, who came off the bench in 28 games last season. He joins Mayer on the Naismith Trophy and Woodsen Award preseason watch lists.

• BU also returns LJ Cryer, Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, Jordan Turner and Zach Loveday.

• BU adds Arizona transfer James Akinjo, who is also on the Naismith Trophy watch list and is a preseason All-America honorable mention (The Athletic). He was first-team All-Pac 12 last season.

• Baylor welcomes the highest-ranked recruiting class in program history (No. 4) . Trio of freshmen includes 5-star Kendall Brown and 4-stars Jeremy Sochan and Langston Love (out for year with injury).

• Baylor also adds Fairmont State transfer Dale Bonner and redshirt freshman Dain Dainja.

• Baylor was picked third in the Big 12 preseason coaches' poll behind Kansas and Texas. The Bears were picked first last season (finished first) and second in 2019-20 (finished second).

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

• BU is playing its 279th 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 263 of 400 games.

• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 3 of 5 seasons since 2017.

QUICK HITS

• 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's 54-6 record over the last two seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 conference teams.

• 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 75-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons (45-2 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 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (193-21).

• BU is 54-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 2 seasons (142-23 last 6 seasons).

• Baylor is 245-99 over the last 10 seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 245 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (284).

• Baylor is 336-146 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.

• Six 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 three as freshmen — Turner, Dainja and 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 962 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 7 tournament titles under Drew (2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 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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