No. 18 MBB Opens Big 12 Play Saturday at Oklahoma State

Fri Jan 5 13:16:04 CST 2024

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18/18 BAYLOR BEARS (11-2, 0-0 Big 12)
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Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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18/18 BAYLOR (11-2, 0-0 Big 12) vs. OKLAHOMA STATE (8-5, 0-0 Big 12)
Jan. 6, 2024 • 2:00 p.m. CT
Stillwater, Okla. • Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611)

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OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (8-5, 0-0 Big 12)
Location: Stillwater, Okla
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Mike Boynton (South Carolina, 2004)
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Story lines

• No. 18 Baylor heads to Stillwater for a 2pm tip in the conference opener against Oklahoma State on ESPN+.

• Saturday is the 94th all-time series meeting – with Oklahoma State holding a 57-36 series advantage.

• The Bears hold the 33-25 series edge since the two squads joined the Big 12.

• BU is 14-3 in its last 17 games against the Pokes, including eight-straight wins in Stillwater.

• In the last meeting in Stillwater, the Bears held off a late 15-2 run by the Pokes to secure a 74-68 win.

• The last meeting between these two at Gallagher-Iba in February was BU's last true road game.

• BU opens conference play on the road for the fourth-straight season and the 10th time in the last 11 years.

• Baylor is 67-49 in Big 12 road games since 2012, second-best in the league behind only Kansas (73-44).

• The Bears are 10-10 under Scott Drew in Big 12 openers, winning three of the last four.

• Baylor's 306-119 record since 2011-12 trails only Kansas (344-87) among Big 12 teams.

• Last time out, Baylor opened its brand-new Foster Pavilion with a 98-79 win over the Cornell Big Red, behind 58 first-half points, its most points in a half since scoring 61 against MVSU in the 2022-23 season opener.

•  Ja'Kobe Walter had a game-high 23 points and a season-high 9 rebounds, while Yves Missi scored 16 points on 8-of-8 shooting, becoming the first player since Flo Thamba in 2021 to shoot 1.000 taking at least eight shots.

• The Bears had a historic final game at the Ferrell Center shooting a program-record 67.2% from the field in a 59 point win over Mississippi Valley State (107-48).

• Baylor hit 19 three-pointers, the most by a Baylor team in Ferrell Center history and one shy of the program record (20).

• Baylor is 89-15 vs. unranked teams over the last four seasons (.856%).

• The Bears lead the nation in 3-point FG% (44.8), rank third in offensive efficiency (121.6) and eighth in points per game (89.2).

• RayJ Dennis ranks second in the Big 12 in assists per game (6.4), with the Bears getting 15.9 points per game from Walter to lead the offense, the most among Big 12 Conference Freshmen.

• 15.9 points per game would rank as the third-most by a freshman in program history.

• Five Bears are averaging at least 10 points per game, including Dennis (13.9), Yves Missi (10.7), Langston Love (10.5) and Jayden Nunn (10.4). Missi leads the team with 6.5 rebounds per game.

• Missi's 2.1 blocks per game puts him second among freshman in Division I.

• BU has had six players win Big 12 Sixth-Man of the Year, no other conference school has more than two.

• BU is 89-22 over the last four seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-6 team in that span.

• Baylor is 115-26 over the last five seasons, the nation's second-best winning % among Power-6 teams in that span (.816%).

• BU is playing its 360th game as a ranked team under Scott Drew — Baylor was ranked in just two of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew.

• Baylor has built leads of 10+ points in 61 of 85 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (58-3 record).

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