No. 4 Baylor MBB Heads to Alabama for Big 12/SEC Challenge

Fri Jan 28 14:28:30 CST 2022

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#4/4 BAYLOR BEARS (18-2, 6-2)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1625> (Butler, 1993)

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#4/4 BAYLOR (18-2, 6-2) vs. rv/rv ALABAMA (13-7, 4-4)
Jan. 29, 2022 • 3:00 p.m. CT
Tuscaloosa, Ala. • Coleman Coliseum (15,316)

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rv/rv ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE (13-7, 4-4)
Location: Tuscaloosa, Al.
Conference/Affiliation: SEC
Head Coach: Nate Oats
 (Maranatha Baptist, 1997)

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STORY LINES

• No. 4 Baylor travels to Alabama for Saturday's 3 p.m. CT tip in the 9th-annual Big 12/SEC Challenge.

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

• BU (7-1) and Alabama (3-1) are the only teams without multiple Big 12/SEC Challenge losses.

• BU and Alabama last met in the 2019 event, with BU earning a 73-68 victory in Waco.

• Baylor's 18-2 record is its worst through 20 games since 2018-19. BU was 19-1 in 2019-20 & 2020-21. The Bears are a combined 56-4 through their first 20 games over the last 3 seasons.

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

• BU has won 18-straight non-conference road/neutral games (last loss Nov. 8, 2019 vs. Washington).

• BU has won 14-consecutive games away from home – 9 neutral, 5 road (last loss March 12 vs. OSU).

• BU is 33-1 vs. unranked teams over the last 2 seasons (+23.0 avg margin) with all wins by 5+ points.

• Baylor is 13-5 against Southeastern Conference teams over the last 10 seasons, including road wins at Kentucky, Florida, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Vanderbilt and neutral wins vs. Arkansas and Kentucky.

• BU is coming off a 74-49 victory over Kansas State on Tuesday, its 4th time holding an opponent below 50 points this season. BU has held opponents below 40 points in 52-consecutive halves.

• Jeremy Sochan returned on Tuesday after missing 4.5 games with an ankle injury, while James Akinjo sat for the second time in three games while battling a lower back injury.

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

• Baylor's 34-6 Big 12 conference record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• Baylor's 46-4 record over the last 2 seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 teams, and the Bears' 72-8 record over the last 3 seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (78-5).

• Baylor's bench has out-scored the opponents' bench in 16 of 20 games and by an average of 28-19.

• Baylor is the nation's only team ranked top-35 in scoring offense (35th) and scoring defense (11th).

• Baylor ranks top-25 nationally in scoring margin (5th, +19.4), assists (10th, 17.6), steals (12th, 9.7), rebounding margin (17th, +7.8), turnovers forced (18th, 17.4), turnover margin (20th, +4.2),

offensive rebound percentage (6th, 37.8) and effective FG% (20th, .552).

• Over the last 3 seasons, Baylor is 61-3 when leading at the half and 72-5 when taking a 2nd-half lead.

• BU has forced 10+ turnovers in 28-straight games, including 12+ TOs in 19 of 20 games this season.

• BU's 49-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 41-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 38 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 25 of 26 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament.

• BU has built double-digit leads in 70 of 80 games over the last 3 seasons (46 of 50 last 2 seasons).

• BU has defeated 3 currently top-25 ranked teams this season – No. 10 Michigan State (75-58 in Battle 4 Atlantis title game), No. 14 Villanova (57-36 in Waco) and No. 23 Iowa State (77-72 in Ames).

QUICK HITS

• Baylor is 4-0 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 12-22.

• 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 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.

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 388 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.

• BU ranks 6th nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound pct (37.8), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• BU is playing its 299th 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 283 of 420 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 91-6 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (61-3 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (208-22).

• BU is 72-5 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 263-101 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 263 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (302).

• Baylor is 354-148 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 982 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).

• 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.

BIG 12's MOST WINS IN CONFERENCE CHALLENGES

• Baylor is 12-2 in conference challenges – 7-1 in Big 12/SEC Challenge, 3-1 in Big 12/Pac-10, 2-0 in Big 12/Big East.

• Baylor's 7-1 Big 12/SEC Challenge record includes wins vs. 7 different teams – Kentucky (neutral), Vanderbilt (road), Georgia (home), Ole Miss (road), Alabama (home), Florida (road) and Auburn (home).

• Baylor's 2022 opponent Alabama (3-1) is the only other team without multiple Big 12/SEC Challenge losses.

• Baylor's 7-1 record is the best record by any team in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. OU and OSU are 6-2, while Kansas and Texas Tech are 5-3, TCU is 4-4, Texas is 3-4, Iowa State and K-State are 3-5 and WVU is 2-6.

• Baylor's 12-2 record in conference challenges is best in the Big 12, followed by OSU at 10-5, Kansas at 9-6, OU at 8-7, Iowa State at 7-7, Texas at 6-7, TCU at 5-6, Texas Tech at 6-8, K-State at 5-9 and WVU at 4-7.

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