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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Kansas City, Mo. — Big 12 Championship Semifinal (T-Mobile Center)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">March 15, 2024</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">No. 3-Seed Baylor is 23-10 (11-7). No. 2 Seed Iowa State is 26-7 (13-5). <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">BU is 2-3 all time when playing as a No. 3 Seed in the Big 12 tournament.</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears are 3-5 under <b>Scott Drew</b> in the semifinal round.</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Baylor is 18-26 all time in the Big 12 Championship and 14-20 under <b>Drew</b>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears are 7-13 under Drew in the Big 12 Championship when playing as the lower seed.</span></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">BU is 25-24 all time against the Iowa State Cyclones and 1-6 in the Big 12 Championship.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Baylor is now 10-15 all time in Big 12 Championship games played at the T-Mobile Center.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Baylor fell to 5-8 this season when trailing at the half.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">BU deployed the starting lineup of <b>RayJ Dennis, Jayden Nunn, Ja’Kobe Walter, Jalen Bridges and Yves Missi</b> for the 30<sup>th</sup> time this
season. The Bears are 20-10 when utilizing that lineup.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">With 11 more assists tonight,
<b>Dennis </b>eclipsed 700 for his career (703) and (225) for the season.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">His 11 assists ties a Baylor Big 12 Championship single-game record, equaling Jake Lindsey’s mark set in 2017 against Kansas State.
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dennis is now in third place in single-season assists (225) behind only
<b>Pierre Jackson</b> (255) in 2012-13 and <b>Nelson Haggerty</b> (284) in 1994-95.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><b>Missi</b> recorded his fifth double-double of the season with 14 points and 11 rebounds.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><b>Missi </b>is one of 21 players in program history to have 11 or more rebounds in a Big 12 Championship game.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><b>Bridges </b>
recorded his second double-double of the season and the fifth of his career with a game-high 20 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6">Two of <b>Bridges’
</b>six-career 20-point games<b> </b>have come in the Big 12 Championship.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6">Prior to tonight the last double-double by a Baylor player in the Big 12 Championship was
<b>Rico Gathers</b> on March 13, 2015, when he had 11 points and 13 rebounds against Kansas.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6">Friday’s game marked the first time since Nov. 17, 2021 that BU had multiple players pull down double-figure rebounds, when
<b>Jeremy Sochan</b> and <b>Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua</b> pulled down 12 and 10 respectively.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Friday’s game is the second time this season Baylor has had multiple players record double-doubles.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Caleb Lohner</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tied season highs in points (12) and minutes (21), after matching a season
high with 7 rebounds last night in a win over Cincinnati.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF) <br>
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