No. 19 MBB Set for Top-20 Showdown with No. 17 TCU

Tue Jan 3 13:35:04 CST 2023

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Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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17/17 TCU (12-1) vs. 19/16 BAYLOR (10-3)
Jan. 4, 2022 • 8:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • The Ferrell Center (10,284)

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TCU (12-1, 1-0 Big 12)
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Head Coach: Jamie Dixon  (TCU, 1987)
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Story lines

• No. 19/16 Baylor host No. 17/17 TCU for its conference home opener, the 191st meeting in series history. It is BU's third most-played rivalry (Texas 257 gms. Texas A&M 207 gms).

• Wednesday marks the first time in series history that both teams meet when ranked in the Top-25.

• BU leads the all-time series 105-85 with a 57-39 mark in Waco.

• The Bears are 16-4 against TCU as Big 12 Rivals. Baylor won the first 11 Big 12 meetings.

• BU is 8-1 against TCU in Waco since the Frogs joined the Big 12. The Bears have won all eight of those meetings by 10+points.

• Baylor has won four-straight Big 12 home openers. Its last loss was to TCU 81-78 in OT on Jan 2, 2018.

• The Bears are 13-6 under Scott Drew in Big 12 home openers, winning 13 of the last 15, since 2007-2008.

• Baylor has won 13-straight home games, tied for the fourth-longest home winning streak in program history.

• The top nine Ferrell-Center winning streaks have all come under Scott Drew and six of the top eight have come in the last seven years.

• 16 representatives from 14 different NBA teams will be in attendance for Wednesday's game.

• Baylor's 42-9 Big 12 record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• BU is 156-90 in Big 12 play in 13 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons.

• The Bears are the third-best offense in the Big 12 (18th best in the nation) according to Ken Pom (113.1 Adj. Efficiency rating), averaging 79.3 points per game.

• BU has won 71-straight when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent (last loss March 2, 2019 at K-State).

• Baylor is 24-7 against AP top 25 teams over the last four seasons, the nation's best mark against ranked teams. 15 of those wins came against top 25 teams away from home.

• With its 65th consecutive week in the AP Top 25, Baylor has the nations second-longest streak (Gonzaga 123).

• BU held NWST to 48 points and improved to 44-1 under Drew when holding an opponent under 50 points (12/20).

• The 12th-ranked Bears spent a school record 54-straight weeks top-10 ranked in the AP Poll (12/19/19 -12/5/22).

• Adam Flagler, Keyonte George and L.J. Cryer are all in the top-10 in the Big 12 in points per game, one of two schools to have multiple players and the only one to have three in the top-10.

• George scored a game-high 19 points to lift BU to a win over Washington St., its seventh-straight win over a Pac-12 foe (12/18)

• BU held the nation's best offense in Gonzaga, to a season-low 63 points in a 64-63 win in the inaugural Peacock Classic (12/2).

• Cryer set career highs in points (28), field goals (10), rebounds (4) and minutes (35) against No. 8 UCLA (11/20).

• Cryer's 23.5 points per game in Las Vegas earned his first-career Big 12 Player of the Week Award.

• With a 95-62 win over Northern Colorado (11/14), Scott Drew became one of 10 active coaches with 400+ wins at his current institution.

• Drew has a winning percentage of .700 (372-156) since BU's first year with no scholarship restrictions in 2007-08.

Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF/)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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