MBB Battles Xavier for Fifth Place at Old Spice
11/28/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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| Baylor (5-1) vs. Xavier (4-1) Nov. 29, 2009 | 11:30 a.m. CST Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Milk House (5,000) |
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GAME CENTER: GAME 7
MEDIA INFORMATION
Date: Sun., Nov. 29, 2009
Tip-Off: 12:30 p.m. EST
Location: Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Arena: The Milk House (5,000)
Television: ESPNU
Talent: Rich Hollenberg (pxp), Len Elmore (color)
Radio: Baylor ISP Sports Network, ESPN/KRZI 1660 AM (Waco), Sirius (Ch. 161)
Talent: John Morris (pxp), Pat Nunley (color)
Series: First Meeting
Record vs. Atlantic 10: 3-10
Drew Era Following Win: 47-38
Drew Era in November: 24-6 (.800)
Live Stats: www.BaylorBears.com
Audio Web Stream: www.BaylorBears.com
Video Web Stream: None
In-Game Blog: None
GAME NIGHT STORY LINES
• Baylor (5-1) and Xavier (4-1) will meet for the first time Sunday in the fifth-place game of the 2009 Old Spice Classic at the Milk House. Tip-off is set for 12:30 p.m. EST on ESPNU.
• Sunday marks the first series meeting with Xavier.
• Baylor is 2-0 vs. first-time opponents this season (Norfolk State, Iona).
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 557 consecutive games - the second-longest active streak in the Big 12 (Texas). BU has connected from 3-point range in every game since Feb. 21, 1990.
• Junior LaceDarius Dunn has made a three-point field goal in 18 consecutive games - the sixth-longest streak in school history.
• Dunn has scored in double figures in each of his last 19 games dating back to last season.
• Ekpe Udoh has recorded four double-doubles, including three straight.
• Udoh is the first Baylor player to record three consecutive double-doubles since Kevin Rogers posted four straight, Feb. 16-27, 2008.
• Udoh has recorded multiple blocks in 10 consecutive games dating back to the final four contests of the 2007-08 at Michigan.
• Baylor is 20-18 in nationally televised games since 1997-98 and 17-16 in the Scott Drew era.
• Baylor is 17-17 on the ESPN family of networks (14-15 in Drew era).
• Baylor is 24-6 in the month of November under Scott Drew.
• Baylor is 8-5 in regular season tournaments in the Drew era.
SERIES HISTORY
• Sunday marks the first series meeting.
• Baylor is 3-10 all-time vs. current members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
• Xavier is the first of two first-time A-10 opponents for Baylor in 2009-10. The UMass Minutemen travels to Waco for a non-conference game later this season (Jan. 23, 2010).
NOVEMBER SUCCESS UNDER DREW
• Baylor is 24-6 in the month of November under Scott Drew.
• Baylor has won 15 of its last 17 non-conference November home games.
• Baylor is 73-32 all-time in the month of November (regular season only).
UP NEXT FOR THE BEARS
• Following Sunday's fifth-place game at the Old Spice Classic, Baylor will travel to Tempe, Ariz., for a Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series matchup with the Arizona State Sun Devils. The first half of the two-game series is scheduled for Thurs., Dec. 3, at 9:30 p.m. CST on FSN.
BAYLOR'S ACCURATE BIG MEN
• Forwards Quincy Acy, Ekpe Udoh and center Josh Lomers are each shooting better than 63 percent from the floor this season.
• Lomers' 71.4 field goal percentage leads all Bears (20-of-28 shooting).
• Acy ranks second on the team with 66.7 percent (20-of-30), while Udoh is third at 63.5 percent (40-of-63).
• Lomers' career 65.0 field goal percentage would rank as the highest in school history, but he does not meet the minimum career requirement of 200 field goals made. Lomers has made 154 of 237 career field goals.
EXTRA TIME? NO PROBLEM
• Baylor improved to 30-28 all-time and 7-2 in the Scott Drew era in overtime games, following a 72-62 win over Iona Friday.
• It was the seventh overtime game at a neutral site in school history.
• Baylor's 72 points are the lowest in an overtime game since the Bears scored 72 in a two-point win over Kansas State in 2006.
CONSECUTIVE STARTS
• Junior G LaceDarius Dunn and senior C Josh Lomers have both started 15 consecutive games dating back to last season.
• Including his final season at Michigan in 2007-08, junior F/C Ekpe Udoh has started 30 consecutive games.
THREE-POINT CONSECUTIVE GAMES STREAK
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 557 consecutive games - the second-longest active streak in the Big 12 (Texas). BU has connected from 3-point range in every game since Feb. 21, 1990, in a win vs. Texas Tech.
• Junior LaceDarius Dunn has made a three-point field goal in 18 consecutive games - the sixth-longest streak in school history.
CARTER 1,000-POINT WATCH
• Senior PG Tweety Carter (971) needs 29 points to become the 24th player in school history to score 1,000 career points.
• Carter would become the sixth player under Scott Drew to reach the career milestone.
• In the first 100 years of the program, Baylor had 19 1,000-point scorers. With the addition of Carter, BU would have added six 1,000-point scorers in the last four seasons.
MR. NOVEMBER, Ekpe Udoh
• Ekpe Udoh continues to have a monster month of November in his first season with the Baylor Bears. Udoh is averaging 15.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3.2 blocks and 2.2 assists through the season's first six games.
• Udoh has recorded four double-doubles, including three straight.
• He is only the fourth Baylor player in the Big 12 era to record three or more double-doubles in the month of November in a single season, joining Brian Skinner (Nov. 1997), Kish Lewis (Nov. 1998) and Terry Black (Nov. 1999).
• "The Nightmare" is the first Baylor player to record three consecutive double-doubles since Kevin Rogers posted four straight, Feb. 16-27, 2008.
• Udoh is the first Baylor Bear to record multiple double-doubles in the same month since Kevin Rogers posted three in January 2009.
UDOH'S BLOCK PARTY
• Junior Ekpe Udoh has recorded is quickly closing in on Baylor's single-season blocked shots top 10 in his first season with the Bears.
• Through six games, Udoh has blocked a team-high 19 points, including five blocks each against Hartford and Iona.
• The Edmond, Okla., native needs 21 more blocks to move into 10th place on Baylor's single-season list (40 by Daryl Baucham and Kish Lewis).
• Udoh has recorded multiple blocks in 10 consecutive games dating back to the final four contests of the 2007-08 at Michigan.
• He has recorded two or more blocks in 54 of his 73 career games.
• Udoh, who broke Chris Webber's sophomore blocked shots record at Michigan in 2007-08, left Ann Arbor as the school's fourth-leading career shot blocker. Udoh's 178 career blocks (159 at Michigan) would rank second all-time at Baylor behind Brian Skinners (346).
