No. 3 Baylor MBB Hosts Iowa State for Senior Night

Fri Mar 4 16:37:41 CST 2022

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#3/4 BAYLOR BEARS (25-5, 13-4)
Location: Waco, Texas
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Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1756> (Butler, 1993)

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nr/rv IOWA STATE (20-10, 7-10) vs. #3/4 BAYLOR (25-5, 13-4)
March 5, 2022 • 5:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,248)

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nr/rv IOWA STATE CYCLONES (20-10, 7-10)
Location: Ames, Iowa
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Head Coach: T.J. Otzelberger (Wisc.-Whitewater, 2001)

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STORY LINES

•No. 3 Baylor takes on Iowa State at 5 p.m. CT Saturday for Senior Night at the Ferrell Center.

•Baylor can clinch at least a share of their 2nd-straight conference title with a win. It would be the 7thconference title in program history (1932, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 2021, 2022).

•BU honors seniors James Akinjo, Matthew Mayer, Flo Thamba and Mitchell Paul in a pregame ceremony.

•Saturday is the 44th series meeting, and the home team is 30-8 in the series in campus-site games.

•Baylor is 13-3 against Iowa State since 2015 and 19-13 vs. ISU during the 19-year Scott Drew era.

•Baylor is 16-2 at home against Iowa State, with the only losses in 2000 and 2013.

•BU has won 8-straight home games against Iowa State, including 4 times against ranked ISU teams.

•Baylor has won each of the last two series meetings by a score of 77-72.

•No. 1 BU won a matchup of undefeated teams against No. 8 Iowa State on New Years Day in Ames. The Bears never trailed in the game and got 29 bench points (13-Cryer, 12-Sochan, 4-Tchatchoua).

• In the last meeting in Waco, BU played for the first time in 21 days (COVID pause). The Bears fell behind 32-15, cut the deficit to 37-32 at the half and took their first lead with 4:26 left.

•Baylor was No. 5 overall (top 2-seed) in the latest NCAA Top 16 bracket overall announced Feb. 19.

•Baylor is No. 4 in the NET rankings and leads the nation with 12 Quadrant 1 wins (12-4).

•With BU ranked No. 3 for Saturday's game, half (308) of 616 games under Scott Drew will have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's tenure.

•Six of Baylor's rotation players have been injured this season – Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Langston Love are out for the year, while Akinjo, Flagler, Sochan and Cryer have all missed multiple Big 12 games.

• BU is coming off a 68-61 win at No. 21 Texas on Monday and an 80-70 win over No. 5 Kansas on Saturday.

•Akinjo (15) and Flagler (16) combined to score 31 second-half points to overcome a 30-27 halftime deficit. Akinjo led BU in points (19), rebounds (career-high 8), assists (7), steals (2) and minutes (38).

•Baylor is 22-6 against ranked teams over the last 3 seasons, including a 13-4 mark away from home.

•Baylor finished 7-2 in Big 12 road games this season, two games better than all other teams.

• Baylor is 21-5 in Big 12 road games over the last 3 seasons (rest of league is 83-151 in B12 road games).

•BU is 25-2 in home games over the last 2 seasons, with an average scoring margin of +22.7.

•Baylor is 39-3 at home over the last 3 seasons, with two losses by 3 points against ranked teams.

•Baylor has won 13+ conference games in 3-straight seasons after never doing so prior to 2019-20.

•Baylor's 41-8 Big 12 record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

•Baylor's 53-7 record over the last 2 seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 teams, and the Bears'79-11 record over the last 3 seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (86-7).

•Baylor has reached the 25-win milestone in each of the last 3 seasons and in 7 of the last 13 years. Prior to that, BU reached 25 wins just once in the program's first 103 years (25-5 in 1945-46).

•BU ranks 7th nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound pct (36.5), its 9th-straight year ranked top-10.

•BU is 18-0 this season when winning points in the paint and 17-1 when committing fewer turnovers.

SEEKING FIRST CONFERENCE TITLE IN 71 YEARS

• BU needs one more win to clinch its second-consecutive conference championship.

• Baylor won its first conference title in 71 years a season ago. It was the Bears' first since the 1950 SWC.

• Baylor has won six league titles in program history, the first five in the Southwest Conference – 1932 (10-2), 1946 (11-1), 1948 (11-1), 1949 (9-3), 1950 (8-4) and 2021 (13-1). The 1949 and 1950 titles were co-championships.

• Baylor's best Big 12 finish before 2021 was outright 2nd-place in 2020. BU also tied for 2nd in 2010 and 2017.

• Baylor's 15 Big 12 wins in 2020 were the most ever by a team that didn't claim the Big 12 title.

QUICK HITS

• Over the last 3 seasons, Baylor is 63-4 when leading at the half and 79-6 when taking a 2nd-half lead.

• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 46-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 39 of those).

• BU is on a school-record streak of 54-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 (previous record was 25). It's the nation's 3rd-longest active streak behind Gonzaga (112) and Villanova (57).

• Baylor has been ranked in all 10 spots in the AP Top 10 within the last 11 months (18 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 31 of 36 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (31-5 record).

• BU has built double-digit leads in 76 of 90 games over the last 3 seasons (52 of 60 last 2 seasons).

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 395 career victories.

• 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 93-7 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (63-4 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (211-23).

• Baylor is 270-104 over the last 11 seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 270 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (309).

• Baylor is 361-151 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 992 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.
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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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