No. 1 Baylor MBB Hosts Oklahoma

Mon Jan 3 17:42:26 CST 2022

Complete game notes attached.

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BAYLOR BEARS (13-0, 1-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1625> (Butler, 1993)

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rv OKLAHOMA (11-2, 1-0) vs. #1 BAYLOR (13-0, 1-0)
January 4, 2022 • 6:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)

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OKLAHOMA SOONERS (11-2, 1-0)
Location: Norman, Okla.
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Porter Moser
 (Creighton, 1990)

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STORY LINES

• No. 1 Baylor hosts its first Big 12 home game of the season at 6 pm CT Tuesday vs. Oklahoma.

• Tuesday is the 66th series meeting. BU trails 20-45, but the Bears are 15-10 vs. OU since 2010.

• BU has won 6-straight vs. OU for the first time. The Bears' longest previous streak was 3 vs. OU.

• Baylor is 8-1 vs. Oklahoma over the last 5 seasons, including a perfect 5-0 mark in Waco. Three of those five wins in Waco were decided by 6 points or less (6 in 2017, 6 in 2019, 4 in 2020).

• With its 77-72 win at No. 8 Iowa State on Saturday, Baylor has now won 9-straight games against top-10 ranked teams, beating Nos. 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 6, 1, 6 and 8, respectively. Baylor is the 6th team all-time to win 9-straight vs. top-10 teams, with Villanova (2016-18) the only other since 2000.

• BU is 19-3 against ranked teams since beating No. 17 Villanova to win the 2019 Myrtle Beach Invite.

• BU has the nation's longest winning streak (19), with 9 at neutral sites, 2 on the road and all by 5+ points.

• With a win, Baylor can record the 4th 20-game winning streak by any team in the Big 12's 26-year history – 23 by Baylor in 2019-20, 22 by Kansas in 1997-98, 20 by Kansas in 2007-08.

• BU has won a school-record 21-straight home games, averaging a +27.0 scoring margin in those wins.

• Baylor is 33-1 at home over the last 2+ seasons, with the lone loss by 3 to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.

• Baylor's 29-4 Big 12 conference record over the last 2+ seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

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

• Tuesday is Baylor's 20th all-time game as a No. 1-ranked team – BU is 17-2 while ranked No. 1.

• Baylor is 1 of 3 remaining undefeated teams (Baylor, Colorado State, USC). The Bears were the next-to-last undefeated team a season ago after starting 18-0 (Gonzaga started 31-0).

• Baylor's streak of 18-straight wins by 8+ points was snapped in a 5-point win at Iowa State. BU was the first returning national champion to win its first 12 games by 8+ points since 1990-91 UNLV.

• Baylor's bench has out-scored the opponents' bench in 11 of 13 games and by an average of 31-21.

• BU is allowing only 6.5 second-chance points per game, while scoring 13.4 second-chance points.

• Baylor is averaging 11 more field goal attempts per game than its opponents (BU 65, OPP 54).

• BU is top-15 nationally in scoring offense (14th) and defense (10th). No other team is top-30 in both.

• Baylor ranks top-15 nationally in scoring margin (2nd, +25.2), assists (6th, 19.2), offensive rebounds (9th, 14.2), turnover margin (10th, +6.2), steals (11th, 10.5), turnovers forced (13th, 18.5), rebounding margin (13th, +9.7) and assist-to-turnover ratio (14th, 1.56).

• Baylor's defense has recorded 7+ steals and 13+ turnovers forced in all 13 games this season.

• BU has 10+ offensive rebounds in 17-straight games, the nation's 2nd-longest streak (Bowling Green-18).

• BU's 46-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is the nation's 3rd-longest behind Gonzaga and Villanova.

• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 38-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 35 of those).

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

• BU has led by at least 4 points in all 73 games since the start of the 2019-20 season and built a double-digit lead in 64 of those games, including 40 of 43 games since the start of last season.

QUICK HITS

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 383 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• Baylor's 41-2 record over the last two seasons is the nation's best, and the Bears' 67-6 record over the last three seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (73-5).

• Baylor has won 36 straight non-conference games (+23.2 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2019.

• BU ranks 9th nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound pct (39.4), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• BU is playing its 292nd 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 276 of 413 games.

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

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

• Baylor has won 20+ games in 12 of the last 14 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).

• Baylor is 87-5 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (57-2 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 91% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (204-21).

• BU is 67-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 258-99 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 258 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (295).

• Baylor is 349-146 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 975 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).

• BU is 7-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league. Combined with a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Series and 1-0 in the Big 12/Big East Battle, Baylor is 11-2 in conference challenges.

• 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.

BEARS MAKING BIG 12 HISTORY

• In the last three seasons, Baylor has recorded the longest winning streak in the Big 12 Conference's 26-year history (23 in 2019-20), the 4th-longest in Big 12 history (19 active in 2021-22) and tied the 5th-longest (18 in 2020-21).

LONGEST WINNING STREAKS IN BIG 12 HISTORY

1. 23 – Baylor, 2019-20

2. 22 – Kansas, 1996-97

3. 20 – Kansas, 2007-08

4. 19 – Baylor, 2021-22

T5. 18 – Baylor, 2020-21; Kansas 2016-17; Kansas 2012-13; Kansas, 2010-11

T9. 17 – Kansas 2015-16; Baylor 2011-12, Texas 2009-10

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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