No. 3 Seed MBB Readies to Open NCAA Tournament against No. 14 Seed Colgate

Wed Mar 20 12:06:18 CDT 2024

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No. 14 COLGATE RAIDERS (25-9, 16-2 Patriot)
Location: Hamilton, N.Y.
Conference/Affiliation: Patriot
Head Coach: Matt Langel (Penn, 2000)
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COLGATE (25-9, 16-2 Patriot) vs. 14/13 BAYLOR (23-10, 11-7 Big 12)
March 22, 2024 • 11:40 a.m. CT
Memphis, Tenn. • FedEx Forum (18,119)

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No. 3 BAYLOR BEARS (23-10, 11-7 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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Story lines

• No. 3 seed Baylor takes on No. 14 seed Colgate in an 11:40 a.m. tilt on TruTV in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

• The Bears are the only team in the country to be a No. 3 seed or higher in each of the last four NCAA Tournaments.

• The No. 9 overall seed this season, BU is the only school in the country to be a top-10 overall seed in each of the last four NCAA Tournaments. No other school has been better than a 14 in that span.

• The Bears enter the tournament as one of four teams to win at least one NCAA Tournament game in each of the last four tournaments (Gonzaga, Houston, Kansas).

• BU is appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the ninth time in the last 10 tournaments.

• Baylor is 1 of 9 teams to appear in nine of the last 10 tournaments, joining Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina, Purdue, and Virginia.

• The Bears are 22-16 in 14 NCAA Championship appearances and 19-10 under Scott Drew.

• Baylor is 43-27 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 16 seasons.

• BU is 8-4 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament including five-straight first-round wins.

• BU is 9-7 all-time when playing as a No. 3 seed.

• The Bears are ninth in the nation in 3-point FG% (38.8), rank sixth in nation in offensive efficiency (122.5) and second among Big 12 in points per game (80.5).

• Baylor finished the season with the No. 1 strength of schedule and faced the best defenses in the nation according to KenPom.

• Baylor is the only Big 12 team to win 11+ conference games in each of the last five seasons.

• BU is 12-5 in its last 17 games against AP top-10 teams.

• BU is 1 of 4 programs ranked No. 1 nationally in four of the last eight seasons (Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas).

• BU is 127-34 over the last five seasons, the nation’s best winning percentage among Power-6 teams in that span (.789%).

• The Bears are the only team in the nation with six active players averaging double-digit points.

• Baylor has now been ranked in the top-10 for a fifth-straight year, one of just five programs (Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and Gonzaga) to accomplish that feat.

• Baylor had five players garner All-Big 12 honors this past week (tied for second-most in the league), headlined by Big 12 Freshman of the Year Ja’Kobe Walter.

• Walter gave BU The preseason and postseason Freshman of the Year for the second-straight season (Keyonte George), joining Oklahoma State as the only Big 12 school to accomplish that in back-to-back seasons.

• RayJ Dennis continued his strong season for the Bears with a All-Big 12 Second Team selection by the coaches and media, while also being a unanimous All-Newcomer team selection.

• Dennis is etching his name in the Baylor history books climbing to third on Baylor’s single-season assist chart. His 225 assists are 30 shy of the second-best season in program history (Pierre Jackson 255, 2012-13.)

• Thirteen of Baylor’s 14 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (17 of last 18 seasons).

• Dennis’ 6.8 assists per game would rank as the fifth-best single-season average in program history.

• Jalen Bridges was voted to the All-Big 12 Third Team, his second All-Big 12 selection after he made the 2020-21 Big 12 All-Freshman Team while at West Virginia.

• In the absence of guard Langston Love, Bridges and Jayden Nunn have helped shoulder the scoring load averaging 14.4 and 12.1 points, respectively.

• Yves Missi was voted to the Big 12 All-Freshman and All-Defensive Teams, in addition to being an All-Big 12 Honorable mention, alongside with Love.

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