No. 13 Baylor MBB Set to Face Florida in the NIT Season Tip-Off Championship

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13/12 BAYLOR BEARS (5-0, 0-0 Big 12)
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13/12 BAYLOR (5-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs. nr/rv FLORIDA (4-1, 0-0 SEC)
Nov. 24, 2023 • 4:30 p.m. CT
New York, N.Y. • Barclays Center (19,000)

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Story lines

• No. 13/12 Baylor meets Florida in the NIT Season Tip-Off Championship Game.

• Baylor is 41-13 in regular-season tournaments during the Drew era, and is seeking it's fifth regular-season tournamnent title in it's last six appearances.

• The Bears and Gators meet for the fourth time, with Baylor holding a 2-1 series advantage.

• In the last meeting, No. 1 Baylor beat Florida 72-61 to match the best start in school history at the time (1/25/20).

• The Bears are 19-11 against SEC spponents during the Drew era, including 14-7 since 2012-13, and five of the last six meetings.

• BU has won 14 of its last 15 regular-season neutral-site contests.

• Baylor improved to 5-0 for the fourth time in the last six seasons with a 88-72 win over Oregon State in the opening round of the NIT Season Tip-Off.

• With the win, the Bears improved to 12-1 against their last 13 Pac 12 opponents, with wins in each of their last 7 meetings against teams from out west.

• With his third 20-point performance of the season (24), Ja'Kobe Walter became the highest scoring freshman through five games in the Scott Drew era (96 points).

• Walter is averaging 19.2 points per game, which ranks in the top-3 among freshman in Division I.

• Walter is the first freshman in program history to collect Big 12 Player of the Week honors (11/13).

• The Bears won four games in eight days to start a season for the first time since 1992-93.

• Friday's game marks the second of four regular-season games in an NBA Arena, the most in program history.

• Baylor is replacing four of its five starters and 68% of its scoring from a season ago.

• Only one returning player averaged more than 20-minutes per game last season (Jalen Bridges).

• BU erased a nine-point halftime deficit in the season opener against Auburn to win 88-82 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

• The nine-point halftime deficit matched BU's largest halftime deficit overcome in a win since coming back from 11 down to beat Texas in overtime on Feb. 27, 2019 in Waco.

• Five-star freshman Walter burst out of the gates against Auburn with 28-points, the most by a freshman in a debut in program history.

• Walter is one of four freshman in Big 12 history to score at least 28 points in his debut, and the only one to do it against a power conference opponent.

• Baylor is 82-13 vs. unranked teams over the last four seasons (.862%).

• BU is 83-20 over the last four seasons, tied for the nation's best record by a Power-6 team in that span.

• Baylor is 109-24 over the last four-plus seasons, the nation's best winning percentage among Power-6 teams in that span.

• Baylor has built leads of 10+ points in 55 of 77 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (52-3 record).

• The Bears opened the season as a ranked team for the fifth-straight season, and 11 of the last 14 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.

• The Bears have been ranked in 75 of the last 76 AP Polls.

For the full version of Baylor's game notes, click here.<file:///documents/2023/11/23/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_6_Florida_23-24.pdf>


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