No. 13 MBB's Final Home Stretch Begins with Oklahoma
2/23/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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| 13/14 Baylor (23-5, 10-5) vs. Oklahoma (14-13, 4-11) Feb. 25, 2012 | 12:47 p.m. CST Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: Big 12 Network |
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STORY LINES
• No. 13/14 Baylor (23-5, 10-5) will go for its fourth Big 12 series sweep of the season against Oklahoma (14-13, 4-11). Saturday's game will tip at 12:47 p.m. CST €ˆon the Big 12 Network and €ˆESPN3.
• Baylor is seeking to sweep Oklahoma for the second time in the last three seasons. Baylor has never swept Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the same season.
• Saturday is the 47th series meeting and the 33rd in the Big 12 era. Oklahoma leads the series 37-9, with all four of Baylor's Big 12 series wins coming in the last three seasons.
• Saturday is the fourth time in the series that Baylor is ranked (BU is 2-1 as a ranked team against the Sooners).
• Baylor has been ranked in the Top 15 for a program-record 16 consecutive weeks. Prior to this week, Baylor had been ranked in the €ˆTop 10 for a program-record 13 consecutive weeks.
• Baylor is 42-37 in Big 12 games in the last five seasons and has tallied the four highest Big 12 win totals in program history during that span -- 11 in 2009-10, 10 in 2011-12, 9 in 2007-08 and 7 in 2010-11.
• Baylor is 20-0 this season when leading at halftime and has won eight straight Big 12 games when leading at the half.
• With 23 wins, Baylor has posted its seventh 20-win season in program history and fourth of the Drew €ˆera.
• Baylor is 8-2 in games decided by 5 points or fewer this season -- 7 of the 8 wins have been away from home.
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 647 consecutive games -- the second-longest active streak in the Big 12.
• Bob Cousy Award finalist Pierre €ˆJackson has a knack for making big play after big play. In his first season at Baylor, Jackson has been a part of seven go-ahead, game-tying or game-winning plays.
• Jackson has 105 assists in the last 14 games; he had 61 assists in his first 14 games.
• Senior F Quincy Acy ranks 13th in school history with 1,256 points. He also ranks 2nd in career FG percentage (60.6), 2nd in career blocks (165) and 6th in career rebounding (749).
• In his last 59 games, Acy has swatted 103 shots. By comparison, Acy blocked 62 shots in his first 70 games.
• 69 of sophomore G Brady Heslip's 83 field goals have been from 3-point range. Heslip has made at least one 3FG in 26 games.
• Baylor has held 20 opponents to fewer than 70 points. Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 72-11 when holding opponents below the 70-point mark. Baylor is 105-27 in the Drew era when holding opponents to fewer than 70 points.
UP NEXT
• Baylor hosts Texas Tech in its home finale Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. CST €ˆon ESPNU. Prior to the game, Baylor will honor the winningest senior class in program history -- Quincy Acy, Fred Ellis and Anthony Jones.
• Baylor seeks to complete a regular-season sweep of Texas, Texas €ˆA&M and Texas Tech in the same season for the first time.
TELEVISION COVERAGE
• Saturday's Big 12 game between Baylor and Oklahoma will be televised live on the Big 12 Network (rebranded ESPN €ˆPlus) at 12:47 p.m. CST. Brad Sham (play-by-play) €ˆand Dan Hughes (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); Dallas / Fort Worth (KTXA); Houston (KUBE); Lubbock (KJTV); Odessa / Midland (KOSA); San Angelo (KIDY); San Antonio (KCWX); Sherman, Texas / Ada, Okla. (KXII-DT2); Tyler / Longview / Lufkin / Nacogdoches (KFXK / KFXL-LP)
Out-of-Texas Markets: Columbia / Jefferson City, Mo. (KZOU); Ft. Smith / Fayetteville, Ark. (KFTA); Little Rock / Pine Bluff, Ark. (KARZ); Los Angeles (KDOC); Meridian, Miss. (WTOK); Milwaukee (WMLW); Oklahoma City (KOCB); Parkersburg, W.Va. -- joined-in-progress (WTAP-DT3); Tulsa, Okla. (KTUL-DT) Also available on ESPN3 and ESPN €ˆFull Court
SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday is the 47th series meeting and the 33rd in the Big 12 era. Oklahoma leads the series 37-9, with all four of Baylor's Big 12 series wins coming in the last three seasons.
• Baylor is seeking to complete its third regular-season series sweep of Oklahoma and second 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: Saturday is the fourth time in the series that Baylor is ranked ... Baylor is 2-1 as a ranked team against the Sooners ... 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 2010 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 ... PJ3 scored 21 points and added 12 rebounds in Baylor's 77-65 win at Oklahoma earlier this season.
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 eight of its last 12 against the league's Sooner State schools.
• Eleven of Baylor's 14 Big 12 wins against the Oklahoma schools have come under head coach Scott €ˆDrew.
• Baylor has never swept Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the same season.
DOUBLE DIGITS? NO PROBLEM
• Baylor has won four games in which it faced a double-digit deficit. In fact, all four Baylor wins have been away from home -- Dec. 17 at BYU €ˆ(trailed by 13, 2:29/1st half), Dec. 23 vs. West Virginia (trailed by 11, 9:02/1st half), at Jan. 10 at Kansas State (trailed by 10, 9:54/1st half) and Feb. 20 at Texas (trailed by 12, 19:17/2nd half).
• Baylor overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to win at Texas -- its first win when trailing by 10 or more points at the half since Jan. 29, 2011. Baylor rebounded from a 14-point deficit to defeat Colorado 70-66 in Waco.
HOLDING COURT AT HOME
• Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 68-16 at the Ferrell Center (25-14 in Big 12 home games), including a 42-7 home mark in the last three seasons (16-7 in Big 12 home games). In its first seven seasons in the Big 12, Baylor was 77-38 (.670) at home. In the Scott Drew era, the Bears are 94-42 (.691) at the Ferrell Center.
• Baylor has now posted a program-record six consecutive seasons with 12+ home wins.
JUST HOW HE DREW IT UP: BAYLOR RECENT SUCCESS IN THE BIG 12
• Baylor is 42-37 in Big 12 games in the last five seasons and has tallied the four highest Big 12 win totals in program history during that span -- 11 in 2009-10, 10 in 2011-12, 9 in 2007-08, and 7 in 2010-11.
• In the first 11 seasons of the Big 12 Conference, Baylor amassed a 45-131 league record. Prior to Scott Drew's arrival in 2003, Baylor won only 33 Big 12 games in the conference's first seven seasons.
BAYLOR'S WINNINGEST SENIOR CLASS...AGAIN
• This year's senior class - Quincy Acy, Fred Ellis and Anthony Jones - has 93 career victories and is the winningest senior class in program history. Victory No. 93 was Baylor's 77-72 come-from-behind triumph Monday at Texas.
• It is the fourth straight season that Baylor's seniors have broken the school record for career victories. In 2009, seniors Curtis Jerrells, Kevin Rogers, Henry Dugat and Mamadou Diene finished with 64 wins, leading Baylor to the 2009 NIT €ˆfinals. In 2010, Tweety Carter and Josh Lomers won 88 games, concluding their careers with a 2010 NCAA €ˆElite €ˆEight appearance. In 2011, LaceDarius €ˆDunn ended his career with 91 victories.
HALFTIME INDICATOR
• Baylor is 20-0 this season when leading at halftime, posting a 123-24 record in the Scott Drew era, and has won seven straight Big 12 games when leading at the half.
• Baylor is 3-5 this season when it trails at the half. Its win Monday at Texas snapped a five-game Big 12 losing streak when trailing at the half.
