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Baylor (1-0) vs. Oregon (1-0) Nov. 15, 2016 | 2:31 p.m. CT Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284) WATCH: ESPN2 and WatchESPN LISTEN: ESPN Central Texas and TuneIn App

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MEDIA INFORMATION Date Tuesday, Nov. 15 | 2:31 p.m. CT Location Waco, Texas; Ferrell Center (10,284) Tickets Purchase Tickets Online TV ESPN2 and WatchESPN TV Talent Bob Wischusen (pxp), Fran Fraschilla (color) Stream Radio TuneIn App BU Radio ESPN Central Texas BU Talent John Morris (pxp), Nick Joos (color) Stats Game Notes Baylor | Oregon Social Media @BaylorMBB BAYLOR BEARS Record 1-0 Ranking nr (AP), nr (Coaches) Head Coach Scott Drew Career: 271-183 (15th season) BU Record: 251-172 (14th season) OREGON DUCKS Record 1-0 Ranking 4 (AP), 4 (Coaches) Head Coach Dana Altman Career: 565-307 (28th season) UO Record: 155-64 (7th season)

STORYLINES
- Baylor faces No. 4 Oregon in a rematch of last season's 74-67 loss in Eugene.
- Tuesday is the 2nd series meeting. The only previous matchup was Nov. 16 last season.
- A total of 15 NBA scouts from 11 different teams have requested credentials for Tuesday's game.
- No. 4 Oregon is the highest-AP ranked non-conference opponent to ever visit Waco. The previous high was vs. No. 6 Arizona on Dec. 8, 1997 and vs. No. 6 Washington State on Nov. 30, 2007.
- Baylor is 6-41 all-time against AP top 5 teams and the last win was Dec. 6, 2013, vs. No. 3 Kentucky.
- BU is 3-17 against AP top 5 teams in the Drew era, but 3-7 in its last 10 such games.
- Baylor has knocked off 12 ranked teams over the last two seasons (12-14 vs. ranked opponents).
- BU is 31-54 against ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first four rebuilding seasons.
- BU did not receive any preseason poll votes for the first time since 2009-10.
- Baylor returned six letterwinners from last season's 22-12 NCAA Tournament team.
- Four players made their Baylor debuts on Friday, all of which redshirted last season.
- Baylor has just one senior on the roster, but BU has five players in their fourth years of college basketball.
- Baylor is one of 13 teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last nine seasons entering 2016-17.
- The Bears are coming off a school-record third consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.
- Head coach Scott Drew is in his 14th season at Baylor and is the school's all-time wins leader (251).
- Six Baylor players have been selected in the last five NBA Drafts, sixth-most nationally.
- Drew (45) is the youngest of 12 coaches to take his current program to three Sweet 16s since 2010.
- All 12 of Baylor's losses last season were against NCAA Tournament teams - Iowa State and National Championship game participants North Carolina and Villanova are the only other teams to make that claim.
- Baylor's 126 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (148).
- Drew has won 20+ games in a school-record five consecutive seasons and eight of the last nine years.
- Baylor went 68-17 in football, MBB and WBB in 2015-16, the nation's best combined record.
- BU was picked 5th in the Big 12 preseason coaches poll, behind Kansas, WVU, Texas and Iowa State.
- Drew is 217-103 since 2007-08, the first year he had a full allotment of scholarships.
- Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (101-13).
- Starting PG Manu Lecomte was named Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Six of BU's seven starting point guards during the Drew era have earned All-Big 12 recognition.
- Johnathan Motley was named to the five-player Preseason All-Big 12 team. BU has had seven players selected to the team in the last seven seasons.
- Motley is on preseason watch lists for the Naismith Award, Karl Malone Award and Lute Olson Award.
- Baylor has had a nation-leading four players selected in the NBA Draft since 2010 who weren't ranked in the ESPN100 out of high school -- Quincy Acy, Ekpe Udoh, Pierre Jackson and Taurean Prince.
- Baylor has the Big 12's 2nd-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 801 straight games.
- BU is 23-4 since the start of last season when it takes the lead at any point in the 2nd half of a game.

EXPERIENCED DESPITE ONLY ONE SENIOR
- Baylor may have only one senior on this year's roster, but the Bears have 11 players who are at least 20 years old.
- BU's starting lineup in the season opener featured four players who are in their fourth or fifth years of college. Manu Lecomte (21) and Al Freeman (22) are fourth-year juniors, Ishmail Wainright (22) is a fourth-year senior, Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. (22) is a fifth-year junior and Jake Lindsey (20) is a sophomore.
- The Bears also have fourth-year junior forward Johnathan Motley (21), who has made 43 career starts. Sophomore guard King McClure (20) and junior forward Terry Maston (21) have each played in 35 consecutive games.

MOTLEY AND LECOMTE EARN PRESEASON HONORS
- Johnathan Motley was named to the five-player Preseason All-Big 12 team, and Manu Lecomte was selected as the Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, as voted on by the league's head coaches.
- Lecomte is the second Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year in program history, joining Terry Black (1999-00).
- Motley is BU's seventh Preseason All-Big 12 honoree in the last seven seasons, joining Rico Gathers (2016), Isaiah Austin (2015), Cory Jefferson (2015), Pierre Jackson (2013), Perry Jones III (2012) and LaceDarius Dunn (2011).
- Motley is also on preseason watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Karl Malone Award and Lute Olson Award.

TRIO OF REDSHIRTS IMPRESSIVE IN BAYLOR DEBUTS
- Manu Lecomte, Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. and Wendell Mitchell all made their BU debuts Friday after redshirting last year.
- Lecomte earned Big 12 co-Newcomer of the Week after a double-double with 13 points, 11 assists, 0 turnovers and 3 steals in 35 minutes. He accounted for 53% of Baylor's scoring (40 of 76) through his own points and assists.
- Lual-Acuil had 12 points and team-highs of 9 rebounds and 4 blocks in 33 minutes.
- Mitchell came off the bench and scored 9 points on just 4 shot attempts in 14 minutes.
- Additionally, three BU players are still waiting to make their debuts. Freshmen Mark Vital and Tyson Jolly are likely to redshirt, and junior college transfer Nuni Omot is ineligible during the fall semester.

HISTORY VS. AP TOP-5 OPPONENTS
- Baylor is 6-41 all-time against AP top-5 ranked teams, including a 3-17 mark in the Drew era.
- BU has won 3 of its last 10 games against AP top 5 teams, with wins vs. No. 3 Kansas (3/9/12), No. 4 Kansas (3/9/13) and No. 3 Kentucky (12/6/13).

HIGHEST AP RANKED NON-CONFERENCE OPPONENT TO VISIT WACO
- No. 4 Oregon is the highest AP ranked non-conference opponent to ever visit Waco. The previous high was No. 6 Arizona on Dec. 8, 1997 (Arizona won 83-68), and No. 6 Washington State on Nov. 30, 2007 (WSU won 67-64).
- Baylor has won 35 consecutive non-conference home games.

PICKED FIFTH IN BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL
- Baylor was picked to finish fifth in the 2017 Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll in a vote by the league's head coaches in October. It's the sixth time in the last seven seasons BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € has been picked in the top half of the league.
- In the last 10 seasons, BU has been picked 9th in 2007-08 (NCAA Tournament), 3rd in 2008-09 (NIT runner-up), 10th in 2009-10 (Elite Eight), 4th in 2010-11, 3rd in 2011-12 (Elite Eight), 2nd in 2012-13 (NITà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € champions), 3rd in 2013-14 (Sweet 16), t-6th in 2014-15 (NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tournament), 5th in 2015-16 (NCAA Tournament) and 5th (2016-17).

SERIES HISTORY
- Tuesday's game is the 2nd all-time meeting between Baylor and Oregon.
- The only previous meeting was a 74-67 Oregon win on Nov. 16 last season in Eugene.
- Al Freeman had career-highs with 22 points and 7 rebounds in 36 minutes of that game.
- Johnathan Motley added 17 points and 7 boards in 23 minutes off the bench.
- Six current BU players saw action in that game, averaging 20.8 minutes played apiece.

UNRANKED IN PRESEASON POLL
- For the first time since 2009-10, Baylor did not receive any votes in either the AP or coaches preseason polls. The Bears went to the Elite Eight that season.
- Baylor had been ranked in the preseason AP Top 25 in five of the last six seasons prior to this year. The Bears were No. 16 in 2010-11, No. 12 in 2011-12, No. 19 in 2012-13, No. 25 in 2013-14 and No. 22 in 2015-16. The lone unranked year in that span was 2014-15, but the Bears received votes in both preseason polls.

DREW HIGHLIGHTS
- BU has graduated 92 percent of its scholarship seniors since Drew took over in 2003 (24 of 26).
- In Drew's first 13 seasons, 25 players have gone on to professional careers.
- Drew is coaching his 424th game at Baylor (251-172). His .593 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 60+ games, and his teams have a .678 winning percentage since 2007-08.

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT -- FROM UNRANKED TO NBA DRAFT PICKS
- Baylor has had a nation-leading four players selected in the NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft since 2010 who weren't ranked in the ESPN100 out of high school.
- The only other schools with three such players were Colorado,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Marquette, Missouri, New Mexico and Connecticut. - Baylor developed Quincyà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Acy, Ekpe Udoh, Pierre Jackson and Taurean Prince into NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft picks after joining the program as unranked recruits.

POINT GUARDS THRIVE IN DREW'S SYSTEM
- Six of Baylor's seven starting point guards during the Scott Drew era have earned All-Big 12 recognition.
- Lester Medford (2016), Kenny Chery (2014, 2015), Pierre Jackson (2012, 2013), Tweey Carter (2010), Curtis Jerrells (2007, 2008, 2009) and Aaron Bruce (2005, 2006, 2007) have been named All-Big 12.

25 PRO PLAYERS IN DREW ERA
- In Scott Drew's first 13 years at Baylor, 25 of his players went on to professional careers.
- All three scholarship seniors from last year's team are now playing professionally.
- Taurean Prince was selected 12th overall in the NBA Draft, becoming the 2nd lottery pick in program history.
- Rico Gathers decided to pursue a pro football career and was selected in the NFL Draft's 6th round.
- Lester Medford recently began his professional career playing in Hungary.

GRADUATING 92 PERCENT OF SENIORS
- Since Scott Drew took over the Baylor Basketball program in 2003, 24 of 26 scholarship players who have exhausted their collegiate eligibilty have graduated from Baylor.
- Players recruited by Drew who have graduated at Baylor: Tim Bush, Patrick Fields, Aaron Bruce, Mamadou Diene, Delbert Simpson, Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat, Kevin Rogers, Tweety Carter, Josh Lomers, Ekpe Udoh, Fred Ellis, Quincy Acy, Anthony Jones, J'mison Morgan, A.J. Walton, Cory Jefferson, Brady Heslip, Gary Franklin, Kenny Chery, Royce O'Neale, Lester Medford, Rico Gathers and Taurean Prince.

RANKED IN NINE STRAIGHT SEASONS
- Baylor is one of 13 teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last nine seasons entering 2016-17.
- BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € cracked a string of 38 consecutive unranked seasons when it was tabbed No. 25 in 2007-08.
- The Bears reached as high as No. 19 in 2008-09, No. 19 in 2009-10, No. 9 in 2010-11, No. 3 in 2011-12, No. 16 in 2012-13, No. 7 in 2013-14, No. 14 in 2014-15 and No. 13 in 2015-16.

THREE CONSECUTIVE NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
- Baylor is on a school-record streak of three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Prior to earning at-large bids in each of the last three seasons, the Bears had never been to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments.
- The Bears are one of nine teams nationally to earn a top-six seed in each of the last three NCAA Tournaments, joining Arizona, Duke, Iowa State, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Villanova and Virginia.
- Baylor was a No. 6 seed in 2014, a No. 3 seed in 2015 and a No. 5 seed last season.

CONSISTENTLY AMONG NATION'S BEST OFFENSES
- Baylor's offense has consistently ranked among the nation's best over the last nine seasons under Scott Drew.
- The Bears have finished eight of the past nine seasons among the top 20 nationally in KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency, joining Duke as the only programs to make that claim.
- BU finished No. 13 in 2015-16, No. 18 in 2014-15, No. 9 in 2013-14, No. 14 in 2012-13, No. 8 in 2011-12, No. 102 in 2010-11, No. 3 in 2009-10, No. 11 in 2008-09 and No. 11 in 2007-08.

SIX NBA DRAFT PICKS IN LAST FIVE SEASONS
- Baylor's six NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft picks over the last five years are the nation's sixth most, trailing only Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse, Kansas and North Carolina and tied with Arizona, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State and UCLA.
- A program-record three Baylor players were selected in the 2012 NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft -- Perryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Jones III (28th pick; Oklahoma City Thunder), Quincyà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Acy (37th pick; Toronto Raptors) and Quincy Miller (38th pick; Denver Nuggets). Pierre Jackson (42nd pick, Philadelphia 76ers; traded to New Orleans Pelicans) was chosen in the 2013 draft, Coryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Jefferson (60th pick; San Antonio Spurs; traded toà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Brooklynà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Nets) was selected in 2014 and Taurean Prince (12th pick; Utah Jazz; traded to Atlanta Hawks) was chosen in 2016.

SECOND-MOST WINS AMONG BIG 12 TEAMS SINCE 2011-12
- Baylor has averaged 25 wins per season over the last 5 years - 2nd-most in the Big 12 in that span. Baylor's 126-56 record since 2011-12 trails only Kansas (148-38) among Big 12 teams (thru 11/13/16).
- Iowa State (124-52) is 3rd, Oklahoma (113-57) is 4th, Kansas State (102-65) is 5th, Texas (101-70) and West Virginia (101-68) are tied for 6th, Oklahoma State (91-74) is 8th, TCU (69-94) is 9th and Texas Tech (66-93) is 10th.

12 WINS VS. RANKED TEAMS IN LAST TWO SEASONS
- Baylor has gone 12-14 against ranked teams since the start of the 2014-15 season.
- BU had a school record seven wins over ranked teams in 2014-15.
- Five wins over ranked teams last season tied the second-most in program history (5 in 2013-14).
- Last season, Baylor had wins over No. 16 Vanderbilt, at No. 13 Iowa State, vs. No. 13 Iowa State, at No. 24 Texas and vs. No. 23 Texas.
- BU is 31-54 against ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first four rebuilding seasons.
- Baylor has won multiple games vs. APà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Top 25 teams in each of the last nine seasons, including three straight seasons with at least five wins over ranked teams.

FIVE STRAIGHT 20-WIN SEASONS
- Baylor has won 20+ games in a school-record five consecutive seasons and in eight of the last nine years. The Bears had just three 20-win seasons in the program's first 101 years (1907-2007).
- Baylor has topped 22 wins in each of the past 5 seasons and is averaging 25.0 wins per season in that span.

DREW AMONG NATION'S ELITE
- Head coachà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Scott Drew is the youngest of 12 coaches nationally to take his current program to three Sweet 16 appearances since 2010. Drew (45) is joined by Xavier's Chris Mack (46), Arizona's Sean Miller (47), Ohioà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State's Thad Matta (49), Indiana's Tomà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Crean (50), Kansas' Bill Self (53), Kentucky's John Calipari (57), Michigan State's Tom Izzo (61), Louisville's Rickà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Pitino (63), North Carolina's Roy Williams (66), Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (69) and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim (71).
- Baylor is one of 15 teams to make three Sweet 16 appearances since 2010.

NO BAD LOSSES
- All of Baylor's losses last season were against NCAA Tournament teams. The only other teams to make that claim were Iowa State, North Carolina and Villanova.
- Baylor and Villanova were the nation's only teams to not suffer any losses against teams outside the RPI top 50.

NATION'S BEST IN FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL LAST YEAR ...
- Baylor led the nation with an .800 winning percentage across football, men's basketball and women's basketball during the 2015-16 season.
- BU went 68-17 in those sports -- football 10 wins, men's basketball 22 wins and women's basketball 36 wins.
- BU joined Michigan State and Oklahoma as the nation's only programs to finish the season ranked in all three sports.

... AND NATION'S BEST OVER LAST FIVE YEARS
- Baylor had the nation's most combined wins across football and men's and women's basketball over the five-year period from 2011-12 through 2015-16.
- The Bears went 350-84 in that span, giving Baylor 83 more wins than any other Big 12 team, and nine more than the next closest team nationally, Notre Dame at 341-87.

UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
- Baylor has enjoyed unprecedented success over the last 10 seasons under 14th-year head coach Scott Drew.
- Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 217-103 (24 wins per season) and has made eight postseason appearancesà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (NCAA -- 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016; NITà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € -- 2009, 2013) and posted eight 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 15 postseason appearances (eight under Drew) and won 20+ games just 11 times (eight under Drew) in the program's first 110 seasons.

HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS
- Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12. The Bears are 101-13 when leading at the break in that stretch (18-2 in 2015-16, 21-7 in 2014-15, 18-2 in 2013-14, 17-1 in 2012-13 and 26-1 in 2011-12).
- BU has won 37% of games in which its been tied or trailing at the half since 2011-12, going 25-43 in those.
- BU has led at halftime in 114 of 182 games over the last six seasons. With wins in 101 of those 114 games, and victories in 25 of 68 games it has trailed or been tied at the half, Baylor is 126-56 since 2011-12.

ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
- Scott Drew holds Baylor's school record with 251 career wins as head coach.
- Drew's .593 winning percentage is the best ever by a Baylor coach with 60+ games at the helm.

NATION'S SIXTH-BEST POSTSEASON RECORD
- Baylor's 17-6 postseason record over the past eight seasons is the nation's sixth-best among teams with at least three NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tournament berths since 2009.
- The only teams with better postseason winning percentages than Baylor's .739 are Connecticut (.783), Kentucky (.781), North Carolina (.781), Duke (.778), Louisville (.750)
- The Bears' 17 postseason wins in that span are eighth-most, trailing only Kentucky (25), North Carolina (25), Duke (21), Michiganà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State (20), Kansas (18), Connecticut (18) and Louisville (18).
- 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.

NATIONAL EXPOSURE
- For the fifth consecutive season, all 31 of Baylor's regular-season games will be televised in 2016-17.
- BU has at least 23 games on ESPNà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € networks, five games on FOXà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Sports Southwest and one game on CBS.
- With 23 games on ESPNà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € networks this season, Baylor will have 174 ESPN games in the last 10 seasons.

BAYLOR BASKETBALL ON THE RADIO
- Baylor basketball is aired live via the Baylor-IMG College Radio Network on ESPNà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Central Texas and flagship station 1660AM ESPN Radio (KRZI) in Waco and worldwide on Sirius XM Radio.
- Games are broadcast by the "Voice of the Bears" John Morris and former Baylor basketball standout Pat Nunley.
- Morris is in his 29th year doing Baylor broadcasts, while Nunley is in his 34th season as color analyst.
- All of Baylor's games can be heard live on the Internet at www.BaylorBears.com and via the TuneIn App.

BEST IN TEXAS
- Baylor is 42-8 against in-state opponents since the start of the 2011-12 season, and the Bears have advanced deeper into postseason play than any of Texas' 21 Division I team in four of the last five seasons.
- BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € is a combined 56-12 against Lone Star State teams over the last seven seasons after going 10-27 against in-state teams in Scott Drew's first six seasons at Baylor (9-3 in 2015-16, 10-1 in 2014-15, 6-3 in 2013-14, 7-1 in 2012-13, 10-0 in 2011-12, 5-3 in 2010-11 and 9-1 in 2009-10).
- Additionally, six of the nine NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft picks fromà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Texas colleges since 2012 have come from Baylor. North Texas, Texas and Texas A&Mà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € have each had one player selected in the last five NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Drafts.

UP NEXT
- Baylor plays one more home game before heading to the Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis.
- BU hosts Florida Gulf Coast in a non-bracketed Battle 4 Atlantis game at 7 p.m. Friday in the Ferrell Center. The game will be televised on Fox College Sports.

By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Foundation

Baylor junior guard Al Freeman says he remembers last year's 74-67 loss at Oregon "like it was yesterday."

Actually, it was 367 days ago. But, the Bears (1-0) get a chance at redemption, hosting the No. 4 Ducks (1-0) at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Ferrell Center as part of ESPN College Basketball's Tip-Off Marathon.

"This is a new season, and we want to come out here and take care of business and not play from behind," Freeman said. "We want to take the fight to them."

Last year, Baylor was the higher-ranked team at the start of the season at No. 20, but the 25th-ranked Ducks led by as many as 16 and withstood a furious second-half rally that saw the Bears twice pull within three.

"I think everybody's carrying that with them," senior forward Ishmail Wainright said.

At No. 4 in both major polls, Oregon is the highest-ranked non-conference opponent to ever visit Waco. The previous high was No. 6 Arizona on Dc. 8, 1997 and No. 6 Washington State on Nov. 30, 2007.

"The good thing about a challenging non-conference schedule is right away it shows you where you're weak and where you have to improve," Baylor coach Scott Drew said, "and it allows you to have more time to do that, rather than waiting till conference season and finding out, `Oh, I wish we had been working on this for the last two months.'''

Oregon returns four starters from last year's Elite Eight team, but 6-foot-7 All-American forward Dillon Brooks had foot surgery this summer and didn't play in the Ducks' 91-77 season-opening victory over Army last Friday.

The other returners are 6-10 senior forward Chris Boucher (12.1 ppg, 5.4 rebounds), Pac-12 all-freshman wing Tyler Dorsey (12.1 ppg, 7.4 rebounds) and 6-3 junior guard Casey Benson, who led the nation last season with a 4.9-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.

"They were one game away from a Final Four and return four starters and added a couple great pieces," Drew said of the Ducks. "That's why a lot of people have them in the top five and why Lindy's magazine picked them to win it all."

Baylor, which opened with a 76-61 home victory over Oral Roberts on Friday, is playing "with a chip on our shoulder" after not receiving a single vote in the preseason Associated Press poll.

"Nobody's voting on us, but we're not worried about it," Wainright said. "It adds fuel to the fire."

Returning for the Bears is 6-10 junior forward Johnathan Motley, who served a one-game suspension for a minor NCAA violation. The preseason All-Big 12 pick averaged 11.1 points and 5.1 rebounds last season and shot 61.4 percent from the field.

"Coaches always like those guys that have been in your program for four years, that are preseason first-team all-conference players, and wear a Baylor uniform," Drew said. "Like anybody in his first game, he's ready to go, he's practiced enough, so he'll be excited."

Junior point guard Manu Lecomte had 13 points, 11 assists and zero turnovers in his Baylor debut, earning Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week honors.

"We've seen him practice for over a year, so we know that the bought a lot to the table," Drew said of Lecomte, a transfer from Miami who had to sit out last season. "At the same time, (I'm) really pleased with his assist-to-turnover ratio, because especially in the early part of the season you tend to try to do too much or turn it over too much. Now, I'm not going to promise he's going to have 11 assists and zero turnovers very game. But that ratio, obviously, is something that was quite impressive for his first game."

Jo Lual-Acquil is another newcomer that had an impressive Baylor debut. The 7-footer from Melbourne, Australia, who missed last season because of a heart condition, had 12 points, nine rebounds and four blocks.

"What's great is it gives you two shot blockers in Mot and Jo," Drew said. "Both of those guys each and every day in practice help each other get better. Plus, it allows our guards to get better at finishing over length, because when you see two good shot blockers like that every day in practice, it prepares you for games."

Tuesday's game starts a stretch of five games in the next 11 days. The Bears host Florida Gulf Coast at 7 p.m. Friday, then travel to play three games in as many days at the Battle4 Atlantis.