at #2 West Virginia (15-1-1) at Baylor (9-5-3) Waco, Texas Betty Lou Mays Field (3,000)

FRIDAY, OCT. 30 | 7:00 P.M. | Notes

WACO, Texas - Baylor soccer hosts No. 2 West Virginia on Friday in the teams' Big 12 regular season finale. The Bears (9-5-3, 4-1-2) and Big 12 regular season champion Mountaineers (15-1-1, 6-0-1) will square off at 7 p.m. CT on FOX Sports Plus at Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field.

BU heads into the weekend after a 1-1 tie at TCU on Tuesday and has gone undefeated in 11 of its last 12 matches. WVU enters the match after a 2-1 overtime win at Oklahoma State last Friday and has not lost since Aug. 23.

The match will feature live stats via GameTracker on BaylorBears.com. Twitter updates can be found on the @BaylorFutbol official account.

MATCH INFO
Fri., Oct. 30 v WVU at 7:00 p.m.
Betty Lou Mays Field (3,000)
Stats: BaylorBears.com
TV: FOX Sports Plus

BAYLOR BEARS
2015 Record: 9-5-3
2015 Big 12 Record: 4-1-2
Head Coach: Paul Jobson
Career: 9-5-3 (1st season)
BU: 9-5-3 (1st season)

WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS
2015 Record: 15-1-1
2015 Big 12 Record: 6-0-1
Head Coach: Nikki Izzo-Brown
Career: 295-104-44 (21st season)
WVU: 282-99-44 (20th season)

BAYLOR QUICK NOTES
* Baylor's 2nd place finish in regular season play tied for the program's 2nd best Big 12 finish (2012, best was 1st in 1998) and its 4 wins in league play are the most since having 5 in 2012, when BU went on to win the Big 12 Soccer Championship title for the 1st time ever. BU will enter next week's tourney as the No. 2 seed for the 2nd time.

* With the Texas win last Sunday, Baylor has now had at least 8 wins in 8 straight seasons. BU has had 10 or more wins in 9 of its 19 seasons as a program and has done so in 4 of the last 5 years under Paul Jobson, who is in his 1st season as head coach, 8th at Baylor overall. BU has won at least 1 match at the Big 12 Soccer Championship 7 times in 12 appearances, including 3 straight.

* Baylor holds edges over its 2015 foes in shots (280-133), shots on goal (120-53), goals (32-14) & corners (66-63).

* Among NCAA rankings, Baylor is 35th in shots per game (16.5), 45th in goals allowed/game (0.76), 57th in points (92) and 63rd in goals (32) and assists (28).

* In the Big 12, Baylor is 2nd in points and 3rd in goals allowed/game, shots per game, assists and goals.

* Baylor is 51-16-10 at home since 2008 & 4-2-1 in 2015.

* Baylor is 2-8-5 since 2012 against top 25 foes & 0-0-1 in 2015 -- the last time Baylor played a top 5 team was a 1-0 loss to No. 2 Oklahoma State in Waco Oct. 21, 2011. BU is 1-12-0 vs. top 5 teams all-time with the lone win coming in its 1st meeting against a top 5 team, which was a 2-1 overtime win at home vs. No. 3 Texas A&M Oct. 12, 1997.

* Freshman Lauren Piercy was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week Oct. 27 for the 2nd time this season -- BU has now had a program-record 5 weekly honors from the Big 12 and a record 4 newcomer accolades. She is just the 2nd in program history to earn the honor twice in a season (Ginny Rosario-Tull, 2001).

* Junior Lindsay Burns was named CoSIDA 2nd-team Academic All-District VII for 1st time in her career, giving Baylor 5 honorees in the last 6 years and 24 total recipients.

* King's 10 assists in 2015 lead the Big 12 & rank 7th nationally -- her 10 assists are 3rd-most by a Baylor freshman in single season history & tied for 3rd-most in Baylor overall single season history.

* Piercy ranks 41st in NCAA in game-winning goals (4, 2nd in Big 12)

* Junior Sara Martinson ranks 37th in NCAA in goals against average (0.682, 2nd in Big 12)

* Baylor has 41 shutouts over the last three seasons & six in 2015.

* Baylor is 29-2-3 when scoring first since 2013 & 9-0-2 in 2015.

* Baylor has gone undefeated in 11 of its last 12 matches.

* Before losing at Kansas Oct. 9th, Baylor had won 7 straight matches for 1st time since Oct. 19 - Nov. 16, 2012 (8).

* Baylor has scored 28 goals & allowed 6 in its last 12 matches (9-1-2).

* Baylor has held edges in shots & shots on goal in 13 of its 17 matches this season (Purdue tied in shots, Iowa State led in shots on goals, Kansas led in shots on goals, Oklahoma tied in shots on goal).