No. 5 Baylor MBB Heads to Oklahoma

Thu Jan 20 17:35:14 CST 2022

Complete game notes attached.

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#5/6 BAYLOR BEARS (16-2, 4-2)
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#5/6 BAYLOR (16-2, 4-2) at rv/rv OKLAHOMA (12-6, 2-4)
Jan. 22, 2022 • 2:00 p.m. CT
Norman, Okla. • Lloyd Noble Center (11,528)

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OKLAHOMA SOONERS (12-6, 2-4)
Location: Norman, Okla.
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Head Coach: Porter Moser
 (Creighton, 1990)

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STORY LINES

• No. 5 Baylor looks to sweep the season series against Oklahoma at 2 pm CT Saturday in Norman.

• BU is seeking its 8th-straight win against Oklahoma (previous best was 3) and 3rd-straight in Norman.

• Baylor is 9-1 vs. Oklahoma since the 2016-17 season, including a 3-1 mark in Norman. In their last 4 trips to Norman, the Bears have wins by 26, 30 and 11 points, along with a 2-point loss (2018).

• Baylor is making its first trip to Norman since Feb. 18, 2020, when BU won 65-54 for its 23rd-straight win, the longest winning streak by any team in the league's 26-year history.

• BU snapped its first 2-game losing streak in 1,038 days with Tuesday's 77-68 win at West Virginia. With James Akinjo and Jeremy Sochan out, LJ Cryer (25) and Matthew Mayer (20) scored career-highs.

• WVU led 54-53 with 8 minutes left, but Cryer, Mayer and Adam Flagler combined for 20 points after that.

• Sochan (ankle sprain) has missed the last 3.5 games, while Akinjo (lower back) has missed one.

• In the last 2 weeks, 4 different Bears have posted 20-point games (Akinjo, Cryer, Flagler, Mayer).

• BU has won 13-consecutive games away from home – 9 neutral, 4 road (last loss March 12 vs. OSU).

• Baylor is 3-0 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 7-18.

• Baylor is 17-3 in Big 12 road games over the last 3 seasons (rest of league is 66-117 in B12 road games).

• BU is 31-1 vs. unranked teams over the last 2 seasons (+23.2 avg margin) with all wins by 5+ points.

• Despite consecutive losses, Baylor is still No. 2 in KenPom and No. 4 in NCAA NET rankings.

• Baylor's 32-6 Big 12 conference record over the last 3 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).

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

• Baylor's 44-4 record over the last 2 seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 teams, and the Bears' 70-8 record over the last 3 seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (76-5).

• Baylor's bench has out-scored the opponents' bench in 14 of 18 games and by an average of 28-20.

• BU is allowing only 6.7 second-chance points per game, while scoring 12.3 second-chance points.

• Baylor is the nation's only team ranked top-30 in scoring offense (26th) and scoring defense (20th).

• Baylor ranks top-25 nationally in scoring margin (5th, +19.4), assists (10th, 17.7), steals (18th, 9.4), rebounding margin (14th, +8.1), effective FG% (17th, .552), turnovers forced (19th, 17.2),

turnover margin (22nd, +4.4) and offensive rebound percentage (9th, 37.7).

• BU has forced 10+ turnovers in 26-straight games, including 12+ TOs in 17 of 18 games this season.

• BU's 48-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 40-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 37 of those).

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

• Baylor has built leads of 11+ points in 23 of 24 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament.

• BU has built double-digit leads in 68 of 78 games over the last 3 seasons (44 of 48 last 2 seasons).

• BU has defeated 3 currently top-15 ranked teams this season – No. 11 Villanova (57-36 in Waco), No. 14 Michigan State (75-58 in Battle 4 Atlantis title game) and No. 15 Iowa State (77-72 in Ames).

QUICK HITS

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

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

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 386 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• 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 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 (37.7), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• BU is playing its 297th 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 281 of 418 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 89-6 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (59-3 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (206-22).

• BU is 70-5 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 261-101 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 261 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (300).

• Baylor is 352-148 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 980 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.

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