MBB Faces South Carolina in Tip-Off Marathon
11/16/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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? Tuesday will mark the sixth series meeting between Baylor and South?Carolina. The Bears have won both games in Columbia, while USC?is 2-1 in games played in?Waco.
? Baylor's game against South?Carolina will air on?ESPN as part of the network's seventh-annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon. It will mark the fifth time in the last seven years BU has played in the Tip-Off Marathon.
? Baylor defeated South?Carolina 66-64 on Nov. 12 during the ESPN?Tip-Off Marathon. BU went without a field goal for the final 7 minutes, but a free throw by Royce O'Neale with 2:02 remaining broke a 64-64 tie.
? Baylor held McNeese State to 39 points in the season opener, tying the fewest points BU has allowed against a Division I opponent since a 43-37 win vs. 20th-ranked Oklahoma State on Dec. 11, 1958.
? Newcomers accounted for 52 of Baylor's 80 points in the season opener, with Deng Deng scoring a game-high 16 points in 16 minutes off the bench. Lester Medford (13) and Johnathan Motley (10) also reached double figures.
? Baylor is receiving votes in both national preseason polls. BU finished 2013-14 ranked No. 18 by the coaches.
? Baylor is 171-81 (24 wins per season) over the last seven-plus seasons and has made six postseason appearances?(NCAA Tournament -- 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; NIT -- 2009, 2013) with six 20-win seasons.
? All 31 of Baylor's regular-season games will be televised this season, including 22 games on the ESPN?family of networks. The South?Carolina game will be Baylor's 105th consecutive televised contest.
? Baylor is coming off a 2014 NCAA Sweet 16 appearance, which made Drew the youngest of 11 coaches nationally to take his current team to three Sweet 16s in the last five years.
? Baylor is 62-4 when leading at the half over the last four seasons -- 1-0 this season, 18-2 in 2013-14, 17-1 in 2012-13 and 26-1 in 2011-12.
? BU has six 20-win seasons in the last 7 years. BU had only three 20-win seasons prior to Scott Drew's arrival.
? Baylor's 5 NBA?Draft picks in the last 3 years ranks 5th nationally behind Kentucky, Duke,?Kansas and Syracuse.
? Baylor has the nation's second-best postseason winning percentage over the last six years (17-4; .810).
? Baylor is one of only 12 schools nationally to play in the Sweet 16 in three of the last five seasons.
? Baylor was picked tied for 6th in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, BU's lowest since 2009-10.
? Baylor is 14-3 in overtime games under Drew, including a 3-0 mark last season.
? Baylor is one of two Big 12 schools to be ranked in each of the last seven seasons (Kansas) entering 2014-15.
? Drew is coaching his 356th game at Baylor (205-150). His .577 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with four or more seasons, and his teams have a .679 winning percentage since 2007-08.
? Baylor is 27-10 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last six seasons.
? Baylor has more Big 12 wins in the last 7 seasons (62-56) than its first 11 years in the league combined (45-131).
? Drew is tied with Kansas' Bill Self as the second-longest tenured head coach in the Big 12 Conference. Drew, who is in his 12th season at Baylor, is second only to Texas' Rick Barnes (17th season at UT).
? Baylor has the Big 12's 2nd-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 733 consecutive games.
? Baylor played 20 games on the ESPN family of networks in 2013-14, increasing the number of ESPN appearances to 106 in the last seven seasons. The Bears have 22 games on ESPN networks this season.
SERIES HISTORY
? Tuesday's game will be the sixth meeting in the all-time series.?The Bears are 3-2, including a 2-0 mark in games played in?Columbia. BU is 1-2 vs. USC in Waco, including a 66-64 win on Nov. 12 last season.
? Three of the five previous meetings have been decided by 5 or fewer points. USC won 64-59 in 2006 and 85-84 in 2009, and BU won 66-64 in 2013-14. The other games were BU 92-84 in 2007 and BU 85-74 in 2010.
? All five previous series meetings have been during the Scott Drew era, with the first game on?Dec. 9, 2006.
? The teams have played home-and-home series in 2006/2007, 2009/2010 and 2013/2014.
LAST SEASON VS. SOUTH CAROLINA
? Baylor knocked off USC 66-64 on Nov. 12 last season. The game included 55 fouls, and 6 of the 10 combined starters were whistled for 4 or more fouls. Neither team led by more than 5 points in the game.
? Baylor was held without a field goal for the final 7 minutes, but Royce O'Neale's free throw with 2:02 remaining broke a 64-64 tie and provided the winning point.
? South?Carolina had a chance to tie the game in the final seconds, but Sindarius Thornwell missed in the paint. The rebound was tipped around and a foul was called on Baylor, but a review confirmed it came after the final buzzer.
? Brady?Heslip led the Bears with 18 points off the bench, while Taurean Prince added 8 points and 12 rebounds in 17 minutes off the bench.
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
? Baylor has enjoyed unprecedented success over the last seven seasons under 12th-year head coach Scott Drew. Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 171-81 (24 wins per season) and has made six postseason appearances?(NCAA -- 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; NIT?-- 2009, 2013) and posted six 20-win seasons.
? Prior to 2007-08, Baylor won only 135 games in the first 11 seasons of the Big 12 era (12.3 wins per season).
? Baylor has made 13 postseason appearances (six under Drew) and won 20+ games just nine times (six under Drew) in the program's first 108 seasons.
BAYLOR PICKED SIXTH IN BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL
? Baylor was picked to finish tied for sixth in the 2014-15 Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll in a vote by the league's head coaches in October. Sixth is the lowest the Bears have been picked since 2010, when BU?was projected 10th and ended up advancing to the NCAA?Tournament Elite Eight.
? In the last eight seasons, BU has been picked ninth in 2007-08 (NCAA Tournament), third in 2008-09 (NIT runner-up), 10th in 2009-10 (Elite Eight), fourth in 2010-11, third in 2011-12 (Elite Eight), second in 2012-13 (NIT?champions), third in 2013-14 (Sweet 16) and sixth in 2014-15.
WINNING AWAY FROM HOME VS. NON-BIG 12 TEAMS
? Baylor is 41-18 against non-Big 12 teams in games away from the Ferrell Center in the Scott Drew era, including an 18-5 record in away games against non-Big 12 teams since 2011-12.
? Baylor is 39-14 against non-Big 12 teams away from home since the 2007-08 season (6-2 in 2013-14; 5-2 in 2012-13; 8-1 in 2011-12; 1-3 in 2010-11; 8-2 in 2009-10; 6-2 in 2008-09; 5-2 in 2007-08).
O'NEALE FIRST BU PLAYER WITH 200+ REBOUNDS AND 100+ ASSISTS
? Last season, forward Royce O'Neale became the first player in program history to post 200+ rebounds and 100+ assists in the same season.
? O'Neale ranked second on the team with 110 assists and fourth with 205 rebounds in 2013-14.
? The only other Big 12 Conference player to reach those numbers in 2013-14 was Iowa State's DeAndre Kane.
BEST IN TEXAS
? Baylor is 23-4 against in-state opponents since the start of the 2011-12 season, including a 6-3 mark last season. The losses in that stretch came at Texas in 2013 and 2014, at Texas Tech in 2014 and home vs. Texas in 2014.
? Since 2009-10, BU is 37-8 against Lone Star State teams after going 10-27 vs. in-state teams in Scott Drew's first six seasons at Baylor. (6-3 in 2013-14, 7-1 in 2012-13, 10-0 in 2011-12, 5-3 in 2010-11, 9-1 in 2009-10).
A WIN WOULD ...
? Make Baylor 4-2 all-time against South?Carolina, including a 3-0 mark in games played in?Columbia.
? Be the ninth consecutive season the Bears have started 2-0.
? Make Baylor 42-18 under Drew in games against non-Big 12 teams away from the Ferrell?Center, including a 40-14 mark in those games since 2007-08.
? Give Baylor a 14-3 record over its last 17 games dating back to Feb. 12, 2014.
? Give Baylor an 81-34 record since the start of the 2011-12 season.
? Make Baylor 48-9 in November games under Drew, including a 28-4 record since 2009-10.
? Make Baylor 172-81 since the start of the 2007-08 season, good for a .680 winning percentage.
FIVE NBA DRAFT PICKS IN LAST THREE YEARS
? Baylor's five NBA?Draft picks in the last three years ranks tied for fifth nationally, trailing only Kentucky,?Duke, Kansas and Syracuse and tied with Michigan and North Carolina.
? BU likely would've had another draftee in 2014, but Isaiah?Austin was diagnosed with a career-ending condition.
NATION'S SECOND-BEST POSTSEASON WINNING PERCENTAGE
? Baylor's 17-4 postseason record over the past six seasons is the nation's second best among teams with three or more postseason berths since 2009.
? The Bears' 17 postseason wins trail only Kentucky (20-5) and North Carolina (18-5) during that span.
? Baylor went 4-1 and advanced to the 2009 NIT Championship game, 3-1 on their way to NCAA Tournament Elite Eight berths in 2010 and 2012, 5-0 to claim the 2013 NIT title and 2-1 on its way to the 2014 Sweet 16.
HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS PAYING OFF
? Baylor has won 94% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12. The Bears are 62-4 when leading through the first 20 minutes in that stretch (1-0 this season, 18-2 in 2013-14, 17-1 in 2012-13 and 26-1 in 2011-12.
? BU has won 38% of games in which its been tied or trailing at the half since 2011-12, going 18-30 in those.
? BU has led at halftime in 66 of 114 games over the last three-plus seasons. With wins in 62 of those 66 games, and victories in 18 of 48 games it has trailed or been tied at the half, Baylor is 80-34 since 2011-12.
DREW AMONG NATION'S ELITE
? Head coach Scott Drew is the youngest of 11 coaches nationally to take his current program to three Sweet 16 appearances in the last five seasons.
? Drew (44) is joined by Arizona's Sean Miller (45), Ohio State's Thad Matta (47), Florida's Billy Donovan (49), Kansas' Bill Self (51), Kentucky's John Calipari (55), Michigan State's Tom Izzo (59), Louisville's Rick Pitino (62), Wisconsin's Bo Ryan (66), Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (67) and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim (69).
UNPRECEDENTED NATIONAL EXPOSURE
? For the third consecutive season, all 31 of Baylor's regular-season games will be televised in 2014-15.
? Baylor has 22 games on the ESPN?family of networks, six games on FOX?Sports Southwest, two games on FS1 and one game on CBS. Baylor set a program record with 38 televised games last season.
? With 22 games on ESPN?networks this season, Baylor will have 126 ESPN games in the last eight seasons.
ANOTHER NATIONALLY RANKED SIGNING CLASS
? Six of Scott Drew's last seven recruiting classes have been ranked among the top 25 nationally.
? Baylor's 2015 signing class is ranked No. 25 by both 247Sports.com and Scout.com.
? The Bears signed three prep standouts with?King McClure (Ovilla,?Texas), Jake Lindsey (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Wendell?Mitchell (Rockdale,?Texas), along with highly regarded JuCo prospect Joseph Acuil (Melbourne,?Australia).
PRODUCING PROFESSIONALS
? In the Scott Drew era, 18 former players have gone on to play professional basketball -- either in the NBA, NBA?Development League or internationally.
? Twelve former Baylor players are currently playing professionally -- Ekpe Udoh (NBA, Los Angeles Clippers), Perry Jones III (NBA, Oklahoma City Thunder), Quincy Acy (NBA, New York?Knicks), Quincy Miller (NBA, free agent), Pierre Jackson?(NBA, Philadelphia 76ers), Cory?Jefferson (NBA,?Brooklyn Nets), Brady Heslip (NBA?D-League, Reno Bighorns), Anthony Jones (Italy), Curtis Jerrells (Russia), Tweety Carter (France), LaceDarius Dunn (Turkey) and A.J.?Walton (Poland).
? Other former players to have gone on to play professionally include Aaron Bruce (Australia), Henry Dugat (Mexico), Kevin Rogers (Greece), Harvey Thomas (D-League), Terrance?Thomas (D-League, Mexico, Turkey) and Tommy Swanson (England, France, Japan).
20 WINS = POSTSEASON
? Baylor, which has won 20-plus games nine times in the program's first 108 seasons, is seeking to win 20 games for the seventh time in the last eight seasons. The Bears have advanced to the postseason in all nine 20-win years.
? Head coach Scott Drew has led Baylor to 20-win seasons in six of the last seven years after the Bears had only three 20-win seasons in the program's first 101 seasons.
? Drew is the responsible for six of Baylor's nine 20-win season and six of BU's 13 postseason appearances.
SEVEN NEWCOMERS ON 2014-15 ROSTER
? Baylor welcomed seven newcomers to its 2014-15 roster, headlined by two junior college transfers: G Lester Medford (Tucson,?Ariz./Indian Hills CC) and F Deng Deng (Melbourne, Australia/Lee College).
? BU also added two players from the high school ranks -- T.J.?Maston (DeSoto, Texas) and Dee Durham (Oakwood,?Texas) -- as well as junior walk-on transfer Austin Mills (Beverly Hills,?Calif./Pepperdine).
? Additionally, Johnathan Motley and Al?Freeman are playing their first collegiate season after sitting out last year as redshirts.
? The seven newcomers combined for 52 of Baylor's 80 points (65%) in the season opener vs.?McNeese State.
COACHING STABILITY
? Baylor's Scott Drew is tied with Kansas' Bill Self as the Big 12 Conference's second-longest tenured head coach. Drew, who is in his 12th season at BU in 2014-15, trails only Texas' Rick Barnes (17th season at UT).
BAYLOR BASKETBALL ON THE RADIO
? Baylor basketball is aired live via the Baylor-IMG College Radio Network on ESPN?Central Texas and flagship station 1660AM ESPN Radio (KRZI) in Waco and worldwide on Sirius XM Radio. All games are broadcast by the "Voice of the Bears" John Morris and former Baylor basketball standout Pat Nunley. Morris is in his 27th year doing Baylor broadcasts, while Nunley is in his 32nd season as color analyst.
? The radio call from all of Baylor's games can be heard live on the Internet at www.BaylorBears.com.
DREW IS PROGRAM'S ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
? Scott Drew holds Baylor's school record with 205 career wins as head coach.
? Drew became the all-time wins leader by defeating Texas on March 14, 2014 for his 202nd Baylor victory, passing Bill Henderson (201 wins; 1941-43 and 1945-61) for the all-time wins mark.
? Drew's .577 winning percentage is the best ever by a Baylor coach with four or more years at the helm.
ONE OF TWO BIG 12 TEAMS RANKED SEVEN STRAIGHT SEASONS
? Baylor joins Kansas as the only two Big 12 Conference schools to be ranked in each of the last seven seasons entering 2013-14. The Bears are unranked in the preseason for the first time since 2009-10.
? Baylor has been ranked for at least three weeks in each of the last six seasons (2008-09 through 2013-14).
UP NEXT
? The Bears return home to host Prairie View A&M (Nov. 21) and Stephen F.?Austin (Nov. 24) in Las Vegas Invitational campus site games. Both games will be televised on FOX?Sports Southwest.
? Baylor then heads to Las Vegas to face Memphis (Nov. 27) and either Illinois or Indiana State (Nov. 28). Both of those games will air on FS1, marking the first time BU basketball has ever played on the network.
