No. 6 Baylor MBB Prepares for Title Game Rematch with No. 14 Gonzaga

[Roberts, Matt]

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BAYLOR BEARS (5-2)
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6/10 BAYLOR (5-2) vs. 14/12 GONZAGA (5-2)
Dec. 2, 2022 • 7:00 p.m. CT
Sioux Falls, S.D. • The Sanford Pentagon (3,200)

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STORY LINES

• No. 6/10 Baylor faces No. 14/12 Gonzaga in the Peacock Classic at the Sanford Pentagon in a rematch of the 2021 National Championship Game.

• Tickets for the Peacock Classic sold out less than six minutes after going on sale

• The Bears captured the first national title in program history in the last meeting between these two teams, an 86-70 win over Gonzaga at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 5, 2021.

• The matchup features the top two teams in the nation in adjusted offensive rating, according to KenPom (Gonzaga - 118.9, Baylor 117.9).

• Baylor is 23-7 against AP top 25 teams over the last four seasons, the nation's best mark against ranked teams. 14 of those wins came against top 25 teams away from home.

• Baylor holds the nation's the longest active streak of consecutive weeks in the AP Top-10 (54-straight weeks).

• LJ Cryer set career highs in points (28), field goals (10), rebounds (4) and minutes (35) against No. 8 UCLA (11/20).

• Cryer's 23.5 points per game in Las Vegas earned his first-career Big 12 Player of the Week Award.

• Baylor has had at least one player score 20+ points in six of the last eight games.

• Adam Flagler has three 20-point games in that stretch, followed by Cryer (2), Keyonte George (2) and Jalen Bridges (1).

• With a 95-62 win over Northern Colorado (11/14), Scott Drew became one of 10 active coaches with 400 wins at his current institution.

• Drew has a winning percentage of .700 (367-155) since BU's first year with no scholarship restrictions in 2007-08.

• In his 20th season at BU, Drew is coming off Big 12 Coach of the Year honors for a 3rd-straight season, joining Gene Keady (Purdue, 94-96) and Jay Wright (Villanova, 14-16) as the only high-major coaches to accomplish the feat.

• Baylor is 76-5 in its last 81 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.

• Baylor is 141-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 112-8 since 2007-08.

• Baylor is 57-8 in home games against unranked opponents (including Big 12 play) since 2016-17.

• Baylor is 42-5 vs. unranked teams over the last three seasons.

• With a 117-53 win in the season opener against Mississippi Valley State (11/7), BU notched the third-largest margin of victory in program history, and 117 points were 1 shy of a Ferrell Center record.

• In an 87-70 win over Norfolk State, BU shot 38 three-pointers, the second-most in the Scott Drew era and the fifth-most in school history.

• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 10 of 13 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.

• The Bears are 60-11 over the last three seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor is 86-15 over the last four seasons, the nation's best winning percentage among Power-5 teams.

• BU won a school-record 26 regular-season games and finished with its 2nd-most conference wins (14) last season.

• Baylor is playing its 627th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (318) have been as a ranked team.

• BU was ranked in two of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew


Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF/)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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