MBB Box: Texas 75, No. 9/9 Baylor 73

[Roberts, Matt]

Texas 75, No. 9/9 Baylor 73
Austin, Texas (The Moody Center)
Jan. 20, 2024

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  *   No. 9/9 Baylor falls to 14-4 and (3-2) in Big 12 play. Texas is 13-5 (2-3) in league play.
  *   The Bears are now 97-165 all time against Texas.
  *   BU is 13-3 in its last 16 games against Texas, including a 6-3 mark in its last nine games in Austin.
  *   Baylor is 81-23 against in-state opponents since the start of the 2011-2012 season.
•        Baylor is 68-51 in Big 12 road games since 2012, second-best in the league behind only Kansas (74-45).

  *   Baylor is 400-168 since 2007-08, the first year Drew had a full allotment of scholarships.
  *   Drew is 454-248 in his 22nd season as a head coach and owns a 434-237 record at Baylor. In league play, Drew is 179-163 at BU and is 191-165 in his career.
  *   Baylor will return to action on Saturday, when it travels to Texas at 11 a.m. on ESPN and the Baylor Sports Media Network.
  *   After shooting 9-fo-11 from deep in the first half, Baylor held the Horns to 0-for-9 shooting from three in the second half.
  *   Baylor shot .800 from the free throw line, tied for it’s second-best free throw percentage of the season.
  *   BU deployed the starting lineup of RayJ Dennis, Jayden Nunn, Ja’Kobe Walter, Jalen Bridges and Yves Missi for the 14th time this season. The Bears are 11-4 when utilizing that lineup.
  *   Walter scored a game-high 22 points and pulled down a game-high seven rebounds.
  *   Saturday marked the sixth time Walter eclipsed the 20-point mark. The Bears are 5-1 when the freshman goes for 20+.
  *   Dennis led the team with eight assists, the 16th time this season he has paced the Bears in assists.
  *   The senior now has 586 career assists (116 at Baylor).
  *   Nunn established a new Big 12-high with 15 points, his seventh game in double figures this season.
  *   Bridges tied a season high with five made threes, en route to 17 points. It was his 10th time to eclipse double-figures this season.
  *   Langston Love scored in double-figures off the bench for the fifth-straight game.


Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-227-2280
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