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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Complete game notes attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Friday press conference information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Houston – 11:00-11:40 am CT: </span>
<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://ncaa-org.zoom.us/j/85451853794?pwd=bFBxblNWTWFHU2MyNXhxblI2eDFaUT09" target="_blank">https://ncaa-org.zoom.us/j/85451853794?pwd=bFBxblNWTWFHU2MyNXhxblI2eDFaUT09</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Baylor – 12:00-12:40 pm CT: </span>
<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="https://ncaa-org.zoom.us/j/85451853794?pwd=bFBxblNWTWFHU2MyNXhxblI2eDFaUT09" target="_blank">https://ncaa-org.zoom.us/j/85451853794?pwd=bFBxblNWTWFHU2MyNXhxblI2eDFaUT09</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">BAYLOR (26-2, 13-1) vs. HOUSTON (28-3, 14-3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">April 3, 2021 • 4:14 p.m. CT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Indianapolis, Ind. • Lucas Oil Stadium (70,000)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">WATCH: CBS and March Madness App<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Talent: Jim Nantz (pxp), Bill Raftery (analyst), Grant Hill (analyst), Tracy Wolfson (reporter)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">LIVE STATS: statbroadcast.com/ncaa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">LISTEN: Baylor Sports Network | ESPN Central Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Talent: John Morris (pxp) and Pat Nunley (analyst)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">No. 1 BAYLOR BEARS (26-2, 13-1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Location: Waco, Texas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">No. 2 HOUSTON COUGARS (28-3, 14-3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Location: Houston, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Head Coach: Kelvin Sampson (UNC Pembroke, 1978)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">STORY LINES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is playing in its third Final Four and first in the modern era (1948 & 1950 were 8-team brackets).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 18-14 in 13 all-time NCAA Championships, including a 15-8 record in the Scott Drew era.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• With a win, BU can advance to the championship game for the second time (1948 vs. Kentucky).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in the last seven tournaments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• The Bears have committed only 19 turnovers over the last 3 games, including only 7 live-ball turnovers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU is averaging a +10 turnover margin in the NCAA Tournament (7.3 TOs/game, 17.3 TOs forced/gm).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU built an 18-point lead and Arkansas didn't get closer than 4 the rest of the way in the Elite 8 win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU won its Sweet 16 game vs. Villanova despite its worst 3-point shooting game of the season (3-19).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU is facing Houston for the first time since Nov. 30, 2002, the last year prior to the Scott Drew era.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Drew's .652 career NCAA Tournament winning percentage (15-8) is 10th-best among active coaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has won 22 straight non-conference games (+21.7 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 9-2 vs. AP Top 25 teams this season, including 5-0 against AP Top 10 teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU leads the nation in 3-point percentage (.411) and is top-10 nationally in scoring margin (3rd, +17.4), scoring (6th, 83.0), turnover margin (3rd, +5.6), defensive turnover pct. (3rd, 24.7), effective FG% (7th,
56.5), offensive rebound pct. (7th, 36.6), steals (9th, 9.0) and turnovers forced (9th, 17.3).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU has led by at least 10 points in 25 of 28 games this year (8 of 11 games since the 21-day pause).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has led by at least 4 points in all 58 games over the last 2 seasons (double-digit leads in 49 of 58).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor's current .411 team 3FG% is the 8th-best mark by any team in the Big 12's 25-year history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has played 15 of its 28 games (13-2) vs. 11 different NCAA Tournament teams this season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor's streak of 9 consecutive postseasons is tied as the nation's 7th-longest active streak.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is making its 10th NCAA Tournament appearance in the modern tournament era. BU's first three NCAA Tournament appearances in 1946, 1948 and 1950 were in an eight-team, unseeded bracket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor won the Big 12 for the first time and claimed its first conference title since 1950.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• The conference title is the 6th in program history and the 4th outright title (1932, 1946, 1948, 2021).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Five Baylor players are shooting at least 40% on 3FGs and averaging at least one 3FG made per game: Mitchell (45%), Butler (40%), Teague (40%), Flagler (42%) and Mayer (40%).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is guaranteed to finish with its fewest losses since going 13-0 in 1911-12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Jared Butler (Wooden Award & Bob Cousy PG Award), MaCio Teague (Jerry West SG Award) and Davion Mitchell (Naismith Defensive Player of the Year) are all national award finalists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Butler is AP Big 12 Player of the Year, Baylor's first conference POY since David Wesley (1992 SWC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Butler is the first unanimous 1st Team All-American in program history, while Mitchell (3rd Team NABC, Sporting News & AP) and Teague (3rd Team NCAA.com) also picked up All-America honors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Mitchell (coaches) and Mark Vital (The Athletic) earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• For a second-straight year, BU had 60% of the Big 12 All-Defensive Team (Vital, Mitchell and Butler).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Scott Drew earned AP and coaches' Big 12 Coach of the Year for a second-consecutive season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">FIRST CONFERENCE TITLE IN 71 YEARS
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor won its first conference championship in 71 seasons (1950 Southwest Conference).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has won six league titles in programs history, four of them outright – 1932 (10-2), 1946 (11-1), 1948 (11-1), 1949 (9-3), 1950 (8-4) and 2021 (13-1). The 1949 and 1950 titles were co-championships.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor's best previous Big 12 finish was outright 2nd-place last season. BU also tied for 2nd in 2010 and 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor's 15 Big 12 wins last season were the most ever by a team that didn't claim the Big 12 title.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">FATHER-SON MATCHUP <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor assistant coach Alvin Brooks III is facing his father, Houston assistant Alvin Brooks. They've met twice previously when Houston defeated Sam Houston State while AB3 was an assistant coach at SHSU.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Houston's Brooks is in his 23rd season at UH (11th as assistant), while Baylor's Brooks is in his 5th season at BU.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">QUICK HITS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has played in one previous NCAA Tournament title game – 1948, when it was an 8-team bracket.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 38-21 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 13 seasons.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has been top-5 ranked for 28-straight weeks. BU was top-5 for 12 weeks all-time prior to this streak.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU's streak of 36-straight AP pols ranked is the nation's 3rd-longest active streak and longest in BU history.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor joins Kansas as the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 52-6 since MaCio Teague and Davion Mitchell became eligible at the start of 2019-20.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Mark Vital holds the BU record for career Big 12 wins at 45-22. The previous record was A.J. Walton's 39.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor became the first team since UNLV in 1990-91 to win its first 17 games by 8+ points.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 3 of the last 5 seasons.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 18th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (368-215).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 25-1 at home over the last 2 seasons, with the lone loss by 3 points to Kansas on 2/22/20.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 14-3 in Big 12 road games over the last 2 seasons (rest of league is 59-99 in B12 road games).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor's 18-game winning streak tied the 4th-longest in the Big 12's 25-year history. The Bears set the record with 23 straight last season, while Kansas had the 2nd and 3rd-longest streaks – 22 in 1997 and 20
in 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor signed the highest-ranked recruiting class in program history (No. 4) in November. BU inked 5-star Kendall Brown, 4-star Langston Love and 4-star Jeremy Sochan for the 2021-22 season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor won double-digit Big 12 games for the 8th time (2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 73-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons (43-2 over last 2 seasons, 22-0 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (191-21).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• BU is 52-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 2 seasons (140-23 last 6 seasons).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has won 20+ games in 12 of the last 14 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 243-99 over the last 10 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor's 243 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (284).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 334-146 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Eight of Baylor's players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Four after transferring to BU – Flagler, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and four as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner, Vital
and Dainja. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Ten of Baylor's 11 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (16 of last 17 seasons).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (7 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 960 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas
Tech (0-8).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">David Kaye</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">| Assistant AD for Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">C: 254-709-5147<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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