BAYLOR (5-10, 0-2) at NEBRASKA (10-4, 0-3)
Jan. 21, 2004 - Devaney Sports Center (Lincoln, Neb.) - 7:05 p.m. CST

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THE GAME
Baylor heads north for a matchup against Nebraska Wednesday, Jan. 21, in Lincoln. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. CST at the Devaney Sports Center and the game will be streamed live online at BaylorBears.nmnathletics.com. The Bears are 5-10, 0-2 and have dropped four straight, most recently a 75-66 loss to No. 22 Texas Tech Saturday in Waco. The Huskers, at 10-4, 0-3, are on a three-game losing streak. They dropped a 63-61 decision at No. 16 Texas Saturday in Austin. The game pits two teams without a Big 12 Conference victory.

BAYLOR TIP-INS
- BU is 1-7 in its last 8 games away from home & has lost 5 straight true road games.
- Baylor is currently playing with 7 active scholarship players and 5 walk-ons.
- Baylor is 11-10 vs. Big 12 North schools the last 3-plus seasons (6-28 vs. South).
- Baylor has held every opponent under 80 points this season.
- Baylor's coaching staff, with an average age of 34 years, is the nation's youngest among major conference schools.
- Baylor has been outscored by an average of 24-13 in bench scoring this year.
- Scott Drew started his coaching career as a student-assistant under Barry Collier at Butler in the early 90s.
- After fouling out of his first 2 games at Baylor and totaling 9 points, Harvey Thomas is averaging 21.4 points and 7.2 rebounds over the last 5 games.
- Terrance Thomas ranks 2nd in the Big 12 in scoring (18.8 ppg) and 11th in rebounding (7.5 rpg).
- Harvey Thomas' 17.0 ppg in conference games ranks 7th in the Big 12.
- R.T. Guinn leads the Big 12 with 2.3 steals per game.
- Terrance Thomas leads BU in scoring (18.8), rebounding (7.5), 3-pointers (27) & minutes (35.5).
- 62% of Corey Herring's career rebounds are offensive (42-26, 30-22 this season).
- Terrance Thomas has scored 20+ points in 6 of 12 games.
- Robbie McKenzie (walk-on from Oct. tryouts) is averaging 6.2 minutes in 14 games.
- Senior Matt Sayman has played in all 104 games of his career.
- R.T. Guinn owns the 3rd-best career 3-point shooting % in Baylor history (41.5%).
- Baylor's 5 walk-ons have logged a total of 19 minutes in 7 games playing as an entire 5-man substitution team, and been outscored 42-24 while on the court.

DREW TO FACE FORMER BOSS COLLIER
Scott Drew grew up the son of legendary Valparaiso basketball coach Homer Drew, but he got his official start in college coaching at Butler under then-coach Barry Collier. Scott Drew, a 1993 Butler graduate, was a student assistant on Collier's staff. Collier moved from Butler to Nebraska in 2000.

HEAD COACH Scott Drew
Scott Drew is 5-10 in his first season as head coach at Baylor and 25-21 in two seasons as a head coach. He came to Waco after 10 seasons coaching at Valparaiso, the final as head coach. Drew led the Crusaders to a 20-11 record and into the NIT in 2002-2003. Valpo earned the Mid-Continent Conference regular season championship with a 12-2 league record last season. The previous nine seasons, Drew served as an assistant at Valpo under his father Homer Drew. During Drew's decade at Valparaiso, the Crusaders earned six NCAA Tournament berths, including the magical 1997-1998 squad that shocked the nation by advancing to the Sweet 16. Valpo made five straight NCAA appearances from 1996-2000. An outstanding recruiter, Drew was responsible for three national Top-20 recruiting classes the last five years. He was named the 1998-99 National Recruiter of the Year by Court Vision and helped produce what HoopScoop named the nation's sixth best recruiting class in 2001, the 13th best in 1999 and the 19th best in 2003 (including four Top-100 national recruits).

BREAKING DOWN THE ROSTER
Baylor's current 2003-2004 roster lists 13 players: six returnees and seven newcomers. Of the seven newcomers, two are scholarship recruits (junior Harvey Thomas, freshman Carl Marshall), two arrived as walk-ons prior to the fall semester (junior Ryan Pryor, freshman Turner Phipps), one earned a spot during open walk-on tryouts in October (junior Robbie McKenzie), one was added in January from a prep school (freshman Nino Etienne), and one is a Division I transfer who joined in January and will sit out the season (sophomore Tim Bush). Seven of Baylor's 12 active players are on scholarships (five returnees & two newcomers). [note: Ellis Kidd Jr. was dismissed from the team in December for violation of team policy; senior football letterman Joe Simmons played five games before leaving to focus on football]

THE NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS
Nebraska (10-4, 0-3) is led by fourth-year head coach Barry Collier, who is 48-54 while at Lincoln. Collier owns a career record of 244-186; he spent 11 seasons as the head coach at Butler, his alma mater, prior to taking over at Nebraska.

NU NOTES: Nebraska is 9-1 at home this season... The Huskers defense leads the Big 12 in points allowed (57.4), field goal percentage (.368) and rebounds allowed (30.8)... NU is the top 3-point shooting team in the league (.407) and senior G Nate Johnson is the top individual 3-point shooter (.593)... Johnson leads the Huskers with 12.6 points per game.

THE NEBRASKA SERIES
Saturday marks just the 14th meeting between Baylor and Nebraska. The Huskers lead the series, which dates back to 1949, by an 8-5 tally. Baylor won last season's meeting 78-64 in Waco, but the Bears have lost all five meetings in Lincoln. The series began with a 71-55 Nebraska victory in December 1949 over Bill Henderson's Baylor squad that would advance to the 1950 NCAA Final Four.

DREW vs. NEBRASKA
Baylor head coach Scott Drew has never coached against Nebraska.

BEARS SUCCESS vs. BIG 12 NORTH
Baylor is 11-10 over the last three-plus seasons in games against schools from the Big 12 North (9-9 in regular reason, 2-1 in the Big 12 Tournament). The Bears are 6-28 vs. Big 12 South teams during that same span.

ROAD WOES
Baylor owns a 1-7 record in its last eight games away from home. The Bears have also lost five straight true road games.

TERRANCE BACK, STILL PRODUCING
Senior F Terrance Thomas leads the Bears in scoring (18.6 ppg), rebounding (8.0 rpg) and minutes played (36.5 mpg) despite having missed three of the last four games. He also ranks as the second-leading scorer and the seventh-best rebounder in the Big 12 Conference. Thomas and fellow senior R.T. Guinn had been ruled academically ineligible but were granted waivers and reinstated last week

LAST TIME OUT: No. 22 TEXAS TECH 75 - BAYLOR 66
Baylor fought back from a 10-point second-half deficit to take a late lead, but was eventually outpaced by 22nd-ranked Texas Tech 75-66 at the Ferrell Center. Despite outrebounding the Red Raiders and hitting on 9-of-15 3-pointers, the Bears surrendered a game-ending 21-11 run to Texas Tech in the loss. Baylor missed its last chance to take the lead when Tommy Swanson's layup rolled around the rim and then fell out of the basket with less than six minutes to play. Harvey Thomas was called for traveling while fighting Swanson for the rebound. Andre Emmett then followed a missed 3-pointer at the other end with an easy layup to put Tech ahead 58-55 lead with 5:10 left. A Harvey Thomas jumper pulled Baylor within one, but Jarrius Jackson's inside bucket started a streak of eight straight points by Tech. Terrance Thomas, who had missed three games after being declared academically ineligible, led Baylor with 20 points on 7-for-11 shooting over 25 minutes. He and R.T. Guinn were reinstated by the NCAA on Friday.

THE LAST MEETING: BAYLOR 78 - NEBRASKA 64 [Feb. 22, 2003]
Lawrence Roberts had 22 points and 14 rebounds and R.T. Guinn scored 15 points and grabbed 11 boards as Baylor downed Nebraska 78-64 at the Ferrell Center. John Lucas added 16 for Baylor, which won its third straight Big 12 game for the first time since 1998. The score was tied 40-40 at halftime and stayed close until late. Baylor led 53-45 three minutes into the second half when Nebraska went on a 7-0 run to cut the lead to one with 15:30 to play. Lucas answered with a 3-pointer and the Bears pulled away for good. Nebraska closed to within 70-61, but Baylor held the Huskers to three points in the final six minutes. The Huskers started hot, taking a 19-12 lead about nine minutes into the game by going 8-of-10 from the field. Baylor was just 4-of-14 in that span. The Bears took their first lead at 25-24 about three minutes later after Kenny Taylor hit two 3-pointers. Taylor's jumper with two seconds left in the half tied the score at 40. Roberts recorded his third double-double in as many games.

HARVEY POSTING BIG NUMBERS
Junior Harvey Thomas has played seven games for Baylor since becoming eligible in late December. The transfer from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M fouled out of each of his first two games. In the five games since, the former Georgetown player has averaged 21.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and recorded two double-doubles.

STEADY SAYMAN
Matt Sayman is the Bears' most veteran player and captain. The fourth-year senior provides leadership and consistent play as Baylor's most experienced player (103 games played). He is averaging 7.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 2003-2004. Sayman is on pace to break the school's games played record (116, Jamie Kendrick 1997-200) and is currently ninth on the school's career minutes played chart (2,282).

WALK-ON CONTRIBUTIONS
Playing behind a current roster of seven active scholarship players, Baylor's five walk-ons (juniors Robbie McKenzie and Ryan Pryor, sophomore Will Allen and freshmen Nino Etienne and Turner Phipps) have played an important role, and the quintet has quickly become crowd favorites at home in the Ferrell Center. Though they log minutes individually as reserve subs (typically Allen and McKenzie), the unit has been utilized by head coach Scott Drew as an entire five-man substitution team to both rest and energize the regulars. The entire walk-on "team" has appeared in six games and has logged 19 minutes together on the floor and has been outscored 42-24. [note: four of the walk-ons are new this season, Allen is a second-year sophomore]

NATION'S YOUNGEST COACHING STAFF
Baylor's coaching staff is the youngest among the nation's major college conferences (tallied by average age). The Bears staff averages 34 years of age (head coach Scott Drew [34] and assistants Mathew Driscoll [39], Mark Morefield [27] and Jerome Tang [37]). New Mexico's staff also averages 34 years.

NEW STAFF GUIDING BEARS
Head coach Scott Drew is joined on the Baylor coaching staff by new assistants Matthew Driscoll, Mark Morefield and Jerome Tang. Driscoll and Morefield followed Drew from his staff at Valparaiso, and Tang joined Baylor after 10 years as a prep coach at Heritage Christian Academy in Cleveland, Texas.

REMEMBERING PATRICK
Baylor's jerseys include a black stripe across the left shoulder in honor of the late Patrick Dennehy, a former teammate who was a redshirt at Baylor during the 2002-2003 season after transferring from New Mexico.

LSU TRANSFER JOINS BEARS
Tim Bush, a freshman F at LSU in 2002-2003, joined the Bears in January and is practicing with the team. The 6-5 forward will be eligible to play after the fall 2004 semester as a sophomore with three years of eligibility. As a true freshman last season at LSU, Bush appeared in 10 games, averaging 0.7 points and 1.5 rebounds per contest. Coming out of high school, Bush was ranked the No. 137 prospect in the class of 2003 by HoopScoop. Bush averaged 15 points and eight rebounds per game as a junior at Shaw High School in New Orleans. Bush won MVP honors at the 2001 Michael Jordan camp in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was also a top-10 prospect at the 2001 Great American Shootout in Denton, Texas.

BAYLOR PRAISED FOR PAIR OF EARLY SIGNEES
Baylor has inked two prep athletes to national letters of intent during the early signing period: center Mamadou Diene of Senegal and guard Aaron Bruce of Australia. The pair are ranked as the 39th-best recruiting class to date by HoopScoop. Diene, a 7-footer, is rated as the top NBA prospect in Africa and the sixth-best international prospect in the world by NBAdraft.net. The analysts at HoopScoop said that if Diene were playing high school basketball in the United States, he would rank among the top 40 players in the nation. HoopScoop also reported that Diene was ranked as the top player in camp when he attended the Babacar Sy Basketball Camp in July. Bruce spent last summer playing for the Australian junior national team in the 2003 FIBA Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece. The 6-2 guard led Australia with 25 points as the Aussies upset Team USA 106-85. HoopScoop reports that if Bruce were playing high school basketball in the United States, he would rank among the top 50 seniors in the country.

BAYLOR SIGNEES:Name             Pos.     Ht.       Wt.      Yr.       HometownAaron Bruce      G        6-2       190      Fr.       Horsham, VictoriaMamadou Diene    C        7-0       210      Fr.       Yeumbeul, Senegal

BAYLOR GAMES ONLINE - AUDIO AND VIDEO
For the first time, Bear fans can both watch and listen to live video and audio of Baylor basketball online in 2003-2004. The radio broadcast of all Baylor basketball games can be heard live on-line on Baylor's official website, BaylorBears.com, or at www.broadcast.com. Live video is available at baylorbears.nmnathletics.com; all home games that are not scheduled to be televised are included in the package. Subscriptions are available for $6.95 per game, or $49.95 for a season pass that covers both men's and women's games.

INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS TV SHOW
Inside Baylor Sports, a half-hour look at the world of Baylor athletics, airs weekly throughout Central Texas and the region. The program, co-hosted by John Morris and Lori Scott-Fogleman, airs on KCEN-TV Channel 6, Fox Sports Net Southwest, College Sports TV and the College Channel (Waco Time Warner cable channel 18). KCEN carries the show at 10:30 p.m. Sundays, and it airs at 1 p.m. Wednesdays on Fox Sports Net Southwest. Each show is archived online at BaylorBears.com and BaylorTV.com.

NEXT UP...
Baylor is back home to face Iowa State Saturday, Jan. 24. Tipoff at the Ferrell Center is scheduled for 7 p.m., and the game will be telecast live regionally on ESPN Regional.