No. 7 Baylor MBB Heads to Lubbock to Face No. 11 Texas Tech

Tue Feb 15 16:16:53 CST 2022

Complete game notes attached. Media materials available here: http://baylorbea.rs/MediaMBB

Postgame Zoom info will be sent tomorrow.

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#7/8 BAYLOR BEARS (21-4, 9-3)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1756> (Butler, 1993)

Roster<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | Game Notes (PDF)<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2022/2/15/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_21_22_26_at_Texas_Tech.pdf?id=20040>
#7/8 BAYLOR (21-4, 9-3) at #11/11 TEXAS TECH (19-6, 8-4)
Feb. 16, 2022 • 8:00 p.m. CT
Lubbock, Texas • United Supermarkets Arena (15,000)

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[texas tech]
#11/11 TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS (19-6, 8-4)
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Mark Adams
 (Texas Tech, 1979)

Roster<https://texastech.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://texastech.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2021-22?path=mbball> <https://uapblionsroar.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | Game Notes (PDF)<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2022/2/15/G26_Notes_Baylor.pdf?id=20039>
STORY LINES

• No. 7 Baylor heads back on the road for another marquee matchup at No. 11 Texas Tech.

• Wednesday is the 144th series meeting, with Baylor holding a 23-14 edge in the Scott Drew era.

• This is the 4th-consecutive matchup with both teams top-20 ranked after that not happening in any of the first 140 series meetings. This is also the first time both teams are top-14 ranked.

• Baylor is 8-4 in 12 trips to Lubbock since 2010, and BU is 23-10 overall against Texas Tech since 2006.

• BU lost 65-62 when the teams met in Waco on Jan. 11. BU built a 15-point first-half lead and led for more than 31 minutes in the game, but Tech led for the final 4:52 after jumping in front 54-52.

• BU is coming off a 80-63 win over No. 20 Texas. All five BU starters scored in double-figures for the first time in two years, but the Bears lost Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua to a season-ending knee injury.

• Flo Thamba played a career-high 30 minutes and had his first double-double (12 pts, 11 rebs, 4 blks).

• Six of Baylor's rotation players have dealt with injuries this season – Langston Love and Tchamwa Tchatchoua are out for the year, while Akinjo, Flagler, Sochan and Cryer have all missed time.

• Baylor leads the nation with 9 Quad 1 wins (9-3), while Kansas (8-3) is the only other team with 8+.

• The Bears are 20-5 against ranked teams over the last 3 seasons, including 12-3 away from home.

• Baylor is 5-1 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 17-37.

• Baylor is 19-4 in Big 12 road games over the last 3 seasons (rest of league is 76-136 in B12 road games).

• The Bears have won 15 of their last 17 games away from home – 9-0 neutral, 6-2 road.

• Baylor has reached the 20-win milestone for the 13th time in the last 15 seasons. Prior to that, BU recorded only three 20-win seasons in the first 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).

• BU is playing its 303rd game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, BU has been ranked in 288 of 425 games.

• Baylor's 37-7 Big 12 Conference record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• Baylor's 49-6 record over the last 2 seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 teams, and the Bears' 75-10 record over the last 3 seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (82-5).

• BU is 16-0 this season when winning points off turnovers and 17-0 when winning points in the paint.

• Baylor is the only High Major team ranked top-50 in scoring offense (37th) and scoring defense (24th).

• Baylor ranks top-25 nationally in scoring margin (7th, +15.6), steals (11th, 9.4), assists (17th, 16.5), offensive rebounds (13th, 13.2), turnovers forced (17th, 16.8), turnover margin (22nd, +3.7), rebounding margin (22nd, +6.8), adj. offensive efficiency (7th, 117.9) and adj. defensive efficiency (13th, 90.1).

• BU ranks 2nd nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound pct (38.0), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• Over the last 3 seasons, Baylor is 62-3 when leading at the half and 75-5 when taking a 2nd-half lead.

• BU has forced 10+ turnovers in 33-straight games, including 12+ TOs in 23 of 25 games this season.

• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 44-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 38 of those).

• BU is on a school-record streak of 52-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 (previous record was 25). It's the nation's 3rd-longest active streak behind Gonzaga (110) and Villanova (55).

QUICK HITS

• Baylor has been ranked in all 10 spots in the AP Top 10 within the last 11 months (16 total weekly polls).

• Baylor has been ranked in all 25 spots in the AP Top 25 at some point in the last 7 years.

• Baylor has been No. 1 ranked in 4 of the last 6 seasons (Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas are only others).

• Baylor and Kansas are the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.

• Baylor has built leads of 10+ points in 28 of 31 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (26-4 record).

• BU has built double-digit leads in 73 of 85 games over the last 3 seasons (49 of 55 last 2 seasons).

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 391 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• Drew has swept AP and coaches' Big 12 Coach of the Year honors each of the last two seasons.

• For a second-straight season, Baylor was one of the nation's final two undefeated teams.

• BU went 305 days between losses, the longest in program history (March 12, 2021 – Jan. 11, 2022).

• BU had a 36-game non-conference winning streak with 813 days between losses (Nov. 8, 2019 – Jan. 29, 2022).

• BU went 1,038 days without consecutive losses before dropping back-to-back games Jan. 11 and Jan. 15.

• Baylor became the first program to start consecutive seasons 15-0 since Syracuse in 2010-11 and 2011-12.

• Baylor's streak of 9 consecutive postseasons is tied as the nation's 7th-longest active streak.

• Baylor is 92-6 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (62-3 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (209-22).

• BU is 75-5 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 266-103 over the last 11 seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 266 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (306).

• Baylor is 357-150 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.

• Five of Baylor's players have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Two after transferring to BU (Flagler, Tchamwa Tchatchoua), one before transferring (Bonner) and two as freshmen — Turner and Langston Love.

• Ten of Baylor's 11 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (16 of last 17 seasons).

• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (7 NCAAs, 2 NITs).

• Baylor has the nation's 9th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 987 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was nearly 32 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).

• Baylor has won 8 tournament titles under Drew – 2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 & 2021 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic, 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational and 2021 NCAA Championship.

NOTABLE STREAKS

• Baylor has taken a lead in 111-consecutive games (last wire-to-wire loss Dec. 1, 2018 at Wichita State).

• BU has won 60-straight when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent (last loss March 2, 2019 at K-State).

• Baylor has won 20-straight when winning points in the paint and 22-straight when winning points off turnovers.

• Baylor has won 36-straight games when shooting 50% or higher (last loss March 18, 2018 vs. Mississippi State).

• Baylor has won 36-straight games when scoring 80+ points (last loss Jan. 5, 2019 vs. TCU).

• Baylor has had at least 3 players make 3-pointers in 28-consecutive games (last on March 27, 2021 vs. Villanova).

• Baylor has made 3 or more 3-pointers in 114-consecutive games (last on Nov. 23, 2018 vs. Ole Miss).

• Baylor has won 9-consecutive neutral-site games – (last loss Nov. 8, 2019 vs. Washington in Alaska).

• Baylor has won 21-consecutive non-conference home games (last loss Dec. 18, 2018 vs. SFA).

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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