No. 12 Baylor MBB Hosts Tarleton on Tuesday

[Roberts, Matt]

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BAYLOR BEARS (6-2)
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Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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TARLETON (5-3) vs. 12/12 BAYLOR (6-2)
Dec. 6, 2022 • 7:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • The Ferrell Center (10,284)

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TARLETON TEXANS (5-3)
Location: Stephenville, Texas
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Head Coach: Billy Gillispie (Texas State, 1983)
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STORY LINES

• No. 12/12 Baylor faces Tarleton in the first meeting between the two teams since 1986.

• After dropping the first two games in the series, BU has won each of the last six games in the series.

• The Bears are the 6th best offense in the nation according to Ken Pom (116.7 Adj. Efficiency rating), averaging 85.1 points per game.

• Baylor is 24-7 against AP top 25 teams over the last four seasons, the nation's best mark against ranked teams. 15 of those wins came against top 25 teams away from home.

• With its 61st consecutive week in the AP Top 25, Baylor has the nations second-longest streak (Gonzaga 119).

• The 12th-ranked Bears spent a school record 54-straight weeks top-10 ranked in the AP Poll (12/19/19 -12/5/22).

• Baylor is 60-17 against in-state opponents since the start of the 2011-12 season, and the Bears have advanced deeper into postseason play than any of Texas' 23 Division I team in five of the last nine seasons.

• BU held the nation's best offense in Gonzaga, to a season-low 63 points in a 64-63 win in the inaugural Peacock Classic (12/2).

• 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 nine 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 (368-155) 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 61-11 over the last three seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor is 87-15 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 628th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (319) have been as a ranked team.


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