No. 11 Baylor MBB Returns to Action in Dallas Against Washington State

[Roberts, Matt]

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WASHINGTON STATE (4-5) vs. 11/11 BAYLOR (7-2)
Dec. 18, 2022 • 9:01 p.m. CT
Dallas, Texas • The American Airlines Center (20,000)

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WASHINGTON STATE COUGARS (4-5)
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STORY LINES

• No. 11/11 Baylor faces Washington State in the USLBM Pac 12 Coast-to-Coast Challenge.

• The game will be played at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, home of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, the second of two regular season games in an NBA arena.

• The Bears have won eight of the last 11 games in NBA arenas including each of the last two at the AAC.

• BU is 1-3 all time against Washington State, and the two are meeting for the first time since Dec. 23, 2010.

• The Bears are 10-1 against their last 11 Pac 12 opponents, with wins in each of the last 6 meetings.

• BU is 41-10 in road/neutral venues over the last four seasons.

• The Bears are the 5th best offense in the nation according to Ken Pom (116.4 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 62nd consecutive week in the AP Top 25, Baylor has the nations second-longest streak (Gonzaga 120).

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

• Down its two leading scorers, Langston Love and Keyonte George went for 20+ points each to lift the Bears past Tarleton (12/6).

• 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 seven of the last 10 games.

• Adam Flagler and Keyonte George have three 20-point games in that stretch, followed by Cryer (2), Jalen Bridges (1), and Love (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 (369-155) 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 43-5 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 63-11 over the last three seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.

• Baylor is playing its 629th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (320) 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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