No. 12 MBB Continues Homestand, Hosts Jackson State
11/12/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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| 12/12 Baylor vs. NR/NR Jackson State Nov. 13, 2011 | 6 p.m. CT Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: None |
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STORY LINES
• No. 12/12 Baylor continues its season-opening homestand with its second game in three days Sunday against Jackson State at 6 p.m. CST. Live video (All-Access subscription required) will be available at BaylorBears.com.
• Baylor is ranked No. 12 in both the AP and USA €ˆTODAY/ESPN €ˆPreseason Top 25 polls released in October.
• Baylor is ranked in both the AP and USA €ˆTODAY/ESPN Preseason Top 25 polls for the second consecutive season.
• Baylor is one of only two Big 12 schools to be ranked in each of the last five seasons (Kansas).
• Baylor has won 19 straight non-conference home games and 32 of its last 33 non-conference home contests.
• Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 92-47 and has made three postseason appearances €ˆ(2008 NCAA, 2009 NIT, 2010 NCAA) and posted three consecutive 20-win seasons.
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 620 consecutive games -- the second-longest active streak in the Big 12.
• Senior €ˆF €ˆQuincy Acy needs 84 points to become the 25th 1,000-point scorer in program history. Acy would be the seventh 1,000-point scorer of the Scott Drew era, joining Aaron Bruce, Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat, Kevin Rogers, Tweety Carter and LaceDarius Dunn.
• Acy, one of only six Baylor players to record at least 100 career blocks, ranks fourth in school history with 109 career blocks. He needs 24 to tie former teammate Ekpe Udoh (133) for third place.
• Baylor's inside-out Quincii duo -- Quincy Acy and Quincy Miller -- combined for 28 points and 11 rebounds in its 77-57 season-opening win Nov. 11, while shooting 60 percent from the floor (9-of-15) and 73 percent from the FT €ˆline (8-of-11).
• Baylor is 31-4 at home in the last three seasons, winning a Ferrell Center-record 15 home games in both 2009-10 and 2010-11. Baylor is 57-13 in the last five seasons at home.
• Sunday will be the third of a six-game suspension for sophomore F Perry Jones III, who was suspended by the NCAA in March. The Big 12 €ˆPreseason Player of the Year will make his season debut Nov. 29 vs. Prairie View A&M.
UP NEXT
• No. 12 Baylor concludes its three-games-in-five-days stretch Tuesday against 2011 NCAA €ˆSweet Sixteen participant San Diego State at the Ferrell Center. Tuesday's game will be part of ESPN's College €ˆHoops Tip-Off Marathon, Presented by Disney Parks and will tip at 1:05 p.m. CST €ˆon ESPN and ESPN3. Brent Musberger (pxp) and Fran Fraschilla (analyst) will call the game.
• Tuesday will be a rematch of the 2009 NIT €ˆsemifinal contest at Madison Square Garden. In that meeting, Curtis Jerrells and LaceDarius Dunn combined for 48 points to lead Baylor to a 76-62 win and berth in the NIT €ˆchampionship game.
QUICK HITS
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 620 consecutive games -- the second-longest active streak in the €ˆBig 12 behind only Texas. Baylor has connected from 3-point range in every game since Feb. 21, 1990, in a win over Texas Tech.
• Baylor is a perfect 40-0 vs. the Southwestern Athletic Conference, including 20-0 in the Scott Drew era.
• Baylor is 31-6 in the month of November under Drew.
• Baylor is 80-32 all-time in the month of November (regular-season only).
• Since 2003-04, Baylor has had considerable success in non-conference play. The Bears are 71-22 against non-conference competition in the Drew era.
• Baylor is 31-4 in its last 35 home games at the Ferrell Center and 57-13 at home in the last five seasons.
• Baylor is 43-3 in non-conference home games, dating back to the 2006-07 season.
• 26 of Baylor's 31 regular-season games will be televised regionally or nationally -- 12 on the ESPN family of networks, 6 on the Big 12 Network, 4 on FOX €ˆSports €ˆSouthwest and €ˆFOX €ˆSports Houston, 3 on various regional networks and 1 on CBS.
• 51 percent of senior F €ˆQuincy Acy's career field goals have been dunks (177 of 348).
• Senior F Anthony Jones made his 68th consecutive start in Baylor's season-opening win Nov. 11 vs. Texas €ˆSouthern.
• Jones notched his third career double-double Nov. 11 vs. TSU, scoring 11 points and adding a career-high 12 rebounds.
• Redshirt sophomore €ˆF €ˆCory Jefferson recorded his career-first double-double with a career-high 10 points, 10 rebounds.
• F Quincy Miller, the only freshman in Baylor's starting lineup, led all scorers with 17 points in Baylor's 77-57 season-opening win Nov. 11 vs. Texas €ˆSouthern.
• Baylor's frontline foursome of senior F Anthony Jones (6-foot-10, wingspan: 7 feet, 2 inches), senior F Quincy Acy (6-foot-7, wingspan: 7 feet, 3 inches), sophomore F Perry Jones III (6-foot-11, wingspan: 7 feet, 2 inches) and freshman F Quincy Miller (6-foot-9, wingspan: 7 feet, 4 inches) has a combined wingspan of 28 feet, 11 inches (width of NCAA €ˆplaying court is 50 feet).
• For the third time in four seasons, Baylor will be one of the host schools during ESPN's College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon Presented by Disney Parks. Baylor will host 2011 NCAA Sweet Sixteen participant San Diego State on Tue., Nov. 15.
• Baylor will play 12 regular-season games on the ESPN family of networks in 2011-12, increasing the number of ESPN appearances to 60 in the last five seasons (64 in the Drew era).
• Drew is tied with Kansas' Bill Self as the second-longest tenured head coach in the Big 12 Conference. Drew, who enters his ninth season at Baylor in 2011-12, is second only to Texas' Rick Barnes, who enters his 14th season in Austin.
SERIES HISTORY
• Sunday will be the fifth series meeting, with Baylor holding a 4-0 series advantage -- all in the Scott Drew era. All four series meetings have been decided by double figures.
• It will also be the third series meeting that Baylor is ranked in the Top 25. In 2008, Baylor was ranked 19th (AP)/20th (Coaches) and 17th (both AP/Coaches) in last season's meeting.
SERIES NOTES: Baylor is a perfect 40-0 vs. the Southwestern Athletic Conference, including a 21-0 record in the Drew era ... Baylor has held Jackson State to 60 points or fewer in the last two series meetings ... Baylor scored 90+ points in the first series meetings (two 100+ point contests).
JONES III TO SIT OUT FIRST FIVE GAMES OF 2011-12
• In March 2011, Perry Jones III was suspended six games by the NCAA €ˆfor receiving improper pre-enrollment benefits. PJ3 was suspended just moments before Baylor's first-round Big 12 Championship game against Oklahoma. Jones III must sit out the first five games of the 2011-12 season; he will make his season debut Nov. 29 vs. Prairie View A&M.
ACY NEXT IN LINE FOR 1,000-POINT CLUB
• Reigning Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year Quincy Acy, who has 916 career points, needs 84 points to become the 25th 1,000-point scorer in school history. Acy, who ranks second in school history behind former teammate Josh Lomers in career field goal percentage (61.6), would be the seventh 1,000-point scorer in the Scott Drew era, joining Aaron Bruce, Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat, Kevin Rogers, LaceDarius Dunn and Tweety Carter.
BAYLOR IN THE TOP 25
• Baylor is 34-15 -- 33-14 in the Scott Drew era -- when ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, 26-11 when ranked in the USA €ˆTODAY/ESPN Coaches €ˆTop 25 and 24-10 all-time when ranked simultaneously in both polls.
AND THEN THERE WERE TWO
• With its inclusion in both the AP and USA €ˆTODAY/ESPN €ˆPreseason polls, Baylor is one of only two Big 12 Conference schools to be ranked in each of the last five seasons (Kansas). That number will climb to three if Texas is ranked in 2011-12.
• Baylor was ranked for two weeks in 2007-08 -- making its first appearance in the AP poll since 1969.
• Baylor has been ranked for at least eight weeks in each of the last three seasons (2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11).
