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6/7 Baylor (17-2, 4-2) at NR/NR Oklahoma (12-6, 2-4) Jan. 24, 2012 | 7:05 p.m. CST Norman, Okla. | Lloyd Noble Center (12,000) TV: Big 12 Network

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MEDIA INFORMATION Date Tue., Jan. 24 | 7:05 p.m. CST Location Norman, Okla. | Lloyd Noble Center (12,000) TV Big 12 Network | TV Listings Live Video Watch Online (ESPN3) Radio ESPN Central Texas | Listen Sirius 93 / XM 191 (OU broadcast) Live Stats Game Notes Baylor | Oklahoma Blog BaylorBears.com Twitter @BaylorMBB | #TweetNotes 6/7 BAYLOR BEARS Record 17-2, 4-2 Big 12 Ranking 6 (AP), 7 (Coaches), 3 (RPI) Last Game Jan. 21 in Waco L, 88-89 to No. 5/5 Missouri Head Coach Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Career: 164-129 (10th season) BU Record: 144-118 (9th season) NR/NR OKLAHOMA SOONERS Record 12-6, 2-4 Big 12 Ranking NR (AP), NR (Coaches), 80 (RPI) Last Game Jan. 21 in College Station L, 75-81 at Texas A&M (OT) Head Coach Lon Kruger (Kansas State, 1975) Career: 491-310 (26th season) OU Record: 12-6 (1st season)

STORY LINES
• No. 6/7 Baylor (17-2, 4-2), which has lost two straight games after starting the season 17-0, will seek its eighth win away from home at Oklahoma. Tuesday's game will tip at 7:05 p.m. CST €ˆon the Big 12 Network, ESPN3 and ESPN €ˆFull Court.
• Baylor is 17-3 all-time when ranked in the Top 10 - 14 of those wins have come this season.
• Tuesday is the 46th series meeting and the 32nd in the Big 12 era. Oklahoma leads the series 37-8, with all three of Baylor's Big 12 series wins coming in the last three seasons.
• After posting a combined 6-48 record against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the first 13 seasons of the Big 12 Conference, Baylor has won six of its last 10 against the league's Sooner State schools.
• Baylor is 17-2 to start the season for the first time in program history.
• Baylor is 4-1 in games decided by 5 points or fewer this season.
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 638 consecutive games - the second-longest active streak in the Big 12.
• Baylor is 7-1 away from home this season. In the last five seasons under ninth-year head coach Scott Drew, Baylor has won 22 true road and 20 neutral-site games - a combined 42-34 record away from home.
• In the first 11 seasons of the Big 12 Conference era, Baylor won only 8 conference road games. Since then, Baylor has won 13 conference road games in the last five seasons.
• Five different Baylor players - Perry Jones III (13.7), Quincy Miller (12.9), Quincy Acy (12.7), Pierre €ˆJackson (12.6) and Brady Heslip (10.1) - are averaging more than 10 points per game, combining for 56 double-digit scoring outings.
• Junior G €ˆPierre Jackson, a finalist for the 2012 Bob Cousy Award, ranks second among Big 12 players in both assists (5.95) and steals (1.97). Jackson leads the Big 12 in both categories in conference-only games - assists (9.33) and steals (3.00).
• Sophomore F Perry Jones III was named to the 2011-12 John R. Wooden Award €ˆMidseason List, which is made up of 25 student-athletes who are the frontrunners for college basketball's most prestigious honor.
• Senior F Quincy Acy ranks 17th in school history with 1,146 points. He also ranks second in career FG percentage (60.8), second in career blocks (152) and 10th in career rebounding (677).
• In his last 50 games, Acy has blocked 90 shots, an average of 1.8 blocks per game (62 blocks in his first 70 games at Baylor).
• 53 of sophomore G Brady Heslip's 63 field goals have been from 3-point range. Heslip has made at least one 3FG in 18 games.

TELEVISION COVERAGE
• Tuesday's Big 12 game between Baylor and Oklahoma will be televised live on the Big 12 Network (rebranded ESPN €ˆPlus) at 7:05 p.m. CST. Doug Bell (play-by-play) €ˆand Bryndon Manzer (analyst) will serve as the Big 12 Network talent.
• The game will be available in Central Texas on CWTX / The CW (Time Warner 165, Grande 15), KBTX, ESPN €ˆFull Court (pay-per-view) and WatchESPN.com (ESPN3).

BIG 12 NETWORK CLEARANCES
Central Texas Listings: CWTX €ˆ/ The CW €ˆ(SD: Time Warner 165, Grande 15; HD: Time Warner 1008, Grande 815), KBTX
Other Texas Markets: Abilene / Sweetwater (KIDZ-LP); Amarillo (KCPN); Austin (KBVO); Beaumont / Port Arthur (KUIL-LD); Corpus Christi (KIII-D2); Dallas / Fort Worth (KTXA); Houston (KUBE); Lubbock (KJTV-DT2); Odessa / Midland (KOCB); San Angelo (KIDY); San Antonio (KCWX); Sherman / Ada, Okla. (KXII-DT2); Tyler / Longview / Lufkin / Nacogdoches (KFXK / KLPN)
Out-of-Texas Markets: Cedar Rapids / Waterloo / Dubuque, Iowa (KCRG 9.2); Columbia / Jefferson City, Mo. (KZOU); Denver €ˆ(Altitude); Kansas City, Mo. (KMCI); La Crosse / Eau Claire, Wis. (KQEG); Little Rock / Pine Bluff, Ark. (KARZ); Meridian, Miss. (WTOK-DT2); New York (YES); Oklahoma City (KOCB); Omaha, Neb. (KPTM-DT2); St. Louis (KPLR 11.2); Springfield, Mo. (KOZL); Topeka, Kan. (KSNT-DT); Tulsa (KTUL-DT); Wichita / Hutchinson, Kan. (KMTW); Yuma / El Centro, Ariz. (KSWT-DT2)
Also available on ESPN3 and ESPN €ˆFull Court

SERIES HISTORY
• Tuesday is the 46th series meeting and the 32nd in the Big 12 era. Oklahoma leads the series 37-8, with all three of Baylor's Big 12 series wins coming in the last three seasons.
• Before losing two games to the Sooners last season, Baylor had won three straight in the series, winning consecutive games in the series for the first time since December 1954.

SERIES NOTES: Tuesday is the third time in the series that Baylor is ranked ... At one point, Oklahoma won 30 straight series meetings ... In 2008 meeting in Norman, Tony Crocker converted a four-point play with 7.3 seconds left to help Oklahoma escape with 92-91 OT win; after Crocker's four-point play, Curtis Jerrells missed a pair of free throws with 1 second remaining ... Baylor snapped a 30-game series losing streak to the Sooners with a 91-60 win Jan. 9, 2010, in Waco ... The 31-point win is the largest margin of victory by Baylor against Oklahoma ... Baylor completed the 2009-10 regular-season series with a 70-63 win at Oklahoma, posting back-to-back wins over the Sooners for the first time since December 1954 ... It also snapped a 14-game losing streak to Oklahoma in Norman ... In Baylor's last win in Norman, Ekpe Udoh broke the Big 12 single-season blocked shots record ... In 2011 series meeting in Waco, LaceDarius €ˆDunn surpassed the 2,000-point career plateau ...Last season's meeting in Norman was postponed for 20 hours after a blizzard crippled the area ... Oklahoma knocked off Baylor 84-67 in the first round of the 2011 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship ... Baylor played without the services of Perry Jones III, who was ruled ineligible by the NCAA €ˆjust hours before tipoff.

SOONER STATE SUCCESS
• After posting a combined 6-48 record against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the first 13 seasons of the Big 12 Conference, Baylor has won six of its last 10 against the league's Sooner State schools.
• Nine of Baylor's 12 Big 12 wins against the Oklahoma schools have come under head coach Scott €ˆDrew; however, Baylor has only one road win in the state of Oklahoma under Drew - a 70-63 win at Oklahoma (Feb. 27, 2010).
• Baylor snapped its 30-game losing streak to the Sooners and swept the regular-season series with Oklahoma in 2009-10, its first regular-season series sweep of the Sooners since 1954-55.

HE DISHES IT AND HE TAKES IT
• Junior G €ˆPierre Jackson, a finalist for the 2012 Bob Cousy Award, ranks second among Big 12 players in both assists (5.95) and steals (1.97). Jackson leads the Big 12 in both categories in conference-only games - assists (9.33) and steals (3.00).
• Jackson, who is averaging 11.3 assists and 2.8 steals in the last four games, dished out a career-high 15 assists in Baylor's 89-88 loss Jan. 21 to No. 5 Missouri. His 15 assists tied the Big 12 record for assists in a conference game and tied for the fourth-most ever by a Big 12 player in any game; Jackson's 15 assists were the sixth-most in a single game in program history and the most since Nelson Haggerty had 18 at TCU on Feb. 14, 1995.

BAYLOR'S FIVE-HEADED ATTACK
• Five different Baylor players - Perry Jones III (13.7), Quincy Miller (12.9), Quincy Acy (12.7), Pierre €ˆJackson (12.6) and Brady Heslip (10.1) - are averaging more than 10 points per game, combining for 56 double-digit scoring outings.
• Baylor's five-headed attack is shooting 52 percent from the floor, 46 percent on 3FG and 76 percent from the free throw line.
• The group has accounted for more than 73 percent of Baylor's overall scoring production (1,098 of Baylor's 1,486 points).

ROAD - AND NEUTRAL - WARRIORS
• Baylor is 7-1 away from home this season. In the last five seasons under ninth-year head coach Scott Drew, Baylor has won 22 true road and 20 neutral-site games - a combined 42-34 record away from home.
• In Baylor's first 11 seasons in the Big 12, the Bears won a combined 28 games away from Waco (15 neutral and 13 true road).

BIG 12 ROAD IMPROVEMENT
• In the first 11 seasons of the Big 12 Conference era, Baylor won only 8 conference road games. Since then, Baylor has won 13 conference road games in the last five seasons.
• Baylor went 4-4 in Big 12 road games in 2007-08, 1-7 in 2008-09 (lone road win at Kansas State), 4-4 in 2009-10, 2-6 in 2010-11 and 2-1 this season.

A FRESHMAN LEADER
• Freshman F Quincy Miller is majoring in pre-med and wants to be an anesthesiologist once his basketball career is complete. The charismatic and energetic freshman has also been a mature piece to Baylor's on-court success, too.
• Miller has started 17 games and is one of five players averaging 10+ points per game. Miller's 12.9 points-per-game average is tops among Big 12 freshmen, while ranking second on Baylor's team behind only Perry Jones III (13.7).