No. 12 Baylor MBB Opens Big 12 Play at Iowa State

[Roberts, Matt]

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RV/RV Iowa State (9-2) vs. 12/13 BAYLOR (9-2)
Dec. 31, 2022 • 1:00 p.m. CT
Ames, Iowa • Hilton Coliseum (14,267)

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• No. 12/13 Baylor opens Big 12 Conference Play in Ames against Iowa State for the second-straight year.

• BU leads the all-time series 24-20, with a 6-14 mark in Ames.

• The Bears have won six-straight in the series, the longest winning streak by either team in the series.

• BU opens conference play on the road for the third-straight season and the ninth time in the last 10 years

• The Bears are 10-9 under Scott Drew in Big 12 openers, winning each of the last three.

• This series features the only two teams, other than Kansas, to win back-to-back Big 12 Championships.

• Baylor's 42-9 Big 12 record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• BU is 156-89 in Big 12 play in 13 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons.

• The Bears are the second-best offense in the Big 12 (14th best in the nation) according to Ken Pom (113.9 Adj. Efficiency rating), averaging 80.8 points per game.

• BU has won 71-straight when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent (last loss March 2, 2019 at K-State).

• 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 64th consecutive week in the AP Top 25, Baylor has the nations second-longest streak (Gonzaga 122).

• BU held NWST to 48 points and improved to 44-1 under Drew when holding an opponent under 50 points (12/20).

• 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 12 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 (372-155) 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 45-5 vs. unranked teams over the last three seasons.

• Baylor is playing its 632nd game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (323) 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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