No. 12 MBB Returns Home to Host Northwestern State

[Roberts, Matt]

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NORTHWESTERN STATE (8-3) vs. 12/13 BAYLOR (8-2)
Dec. 20, 2022 • 7:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • The Ferrell Center (10,284)

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STORY LINES

• No. 12/13 Baylor returns home to host Northwestern State in the final game before Christmas.

• Prior to tip, BU will honor Flo Thamba for his 100th career win, the most in program history.

• BU is 9-1 all time against Northwestern State, and the two are meeting for the second-straight year.

• The Bears have won four-straight in the series, including a 104-68 win over the Demons last season.

• The Bears are the best offense in the Big 12 (6th best in the nation) according to Ken Pom (116.1 Adj. Efficiency rating), averaging 82.6 points per game.

• BU has won 69-straight when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent (last loss March 2, 2019 at K-State).

• Baylor is 78-4 in its last 82 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.

• 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 63rd consecutive week in the AP Top 25, Baylor has the nations second-longest streak (Gonzaga 121).

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

• Keyonte George scored a game-high 19 points to lift BU to a win over Washington St., its seventh-straight win over a Pac-12 foe (12/18)

• Down its two leading scorers, George and Langston Love and 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 11 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 (370-155) 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 44-5 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 is playing its 630th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (321) 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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