No. 3 Seed MBB Set for Second Round Showdown with No. 6 Seed Creighton

[Roberts, Matt]

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No. 6 CREIGHTON (22-12, 14-6) vs. No. 3 BAYLOR (23-10, 11-7)
March 19, 2023 • 6:10 p.m. CT
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No. 6 CREIGHTON (22-12, 14-6 Big East)
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• No. 3 seed Baylor takes on No. 6 seed Creighton on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on TBS at 5:10 p.m. MT.

• BU is appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the eighth time in the last nine tournaments.

• The Bears are 22-15 in 14 NCAA Championship appearances and 19-9 under Scott Drew.

• Drew is one of two active coaches to have won an NCAA Title and an NIT Title (John Calipari). He is the only active coach to have won both at the same school.

• Baylor is one of just four teams to be a three-seed or higher in each of the last three NCAA Tournaments.

• BU is 9-5 all time when playing as a No. 3 seed.

• The Bears are appearing in the NCAA postseason for a school-record 11th-consecutive time (9 NCAA, 2 NIT).

• Baylor is 42-24 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 15 seasons.

• BU and Creighton will be meeting for the sixth time, and a second time in the NCAA Tournament.

• Baylor has won the last two meetings against the Jays including an 85-55 win over the Jays in the Second round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament .

• The Bears played 19 of 33 (.575%) games this season against teams in the NCAA Tournament field.

• Baylor is 9-10 against the 2023 NCAA Tournament field – No. 1 seed Kansas (1-1), No. 2 seed Marquette (0-1), No. 2 seed UCLA (1-0), No. 2 seed Texas (1-1), No. 3 seed Gonzaga (1-0), No. 3 seed Kansas Stats (0-2), No. 4 seed Virginia (0-1), No. 6 Seed Iowa State (0-3), No. 6 seed TCU (1-1), No. 8 seed Arkansas (1-0), No. 9 seed West Virginia (2-0) and No. 14 seed UC Santa Barbara (1-0).

• BU is 4-2 all time in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

• Last time out BU shot a season-high .549 to down UC Santa Barbara 74-56 in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament.

• Adam Flagler had a game-high 18 points becoming BU’s all-time leading scorer in NCAA Tournament games.

• Baylor won its fifth-straight first-round game and improved to 8-4 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams to appear in eight of the last nine tournaments, joining Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina, Purdue, Villanova and Virginia.

• BU has won 18 of its last 19 neutral-site games against non-conference opponents (only loss in that span was vs. Virginia 11/18/22).

• All nine of BU’s losses have come against teams currently ranked in the top 30 of the latest NCAA Net rankings.

• The Bears are 13-3 in the last 16 games against AP Top-10 teams, beating Nos. 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 6, 1, 6, 8, 5, 8, 9 and 8.

• With 499 points, George is just 10 points from Baylor’s freshman record of 509 held by Aaron Bruce.

• In the Big 12 Tournament, George set Baylor’s freshman record for made-threes in a season (77).

• George was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, BU’s first since Quincy Miller in 2012.

• BU is the only Power-Six team to have a guard trio each averaging more than 14.5 points per game.

• BU’s 11 quad-one wins are the fourth-most in the nation.


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