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BAYLOR BEARS (10-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)
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ALCORN STATE (1-9) vs. BAYLOR (10-0)
December 20, 2021 • 6:00 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)
LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast
WATCH: ESPN+
Talent: John Morris (pxp), King McClure (analyst)
LISTEN: Learfield/ ESPN 1660 AM in Central Texas
Talent: Dave Rosselli (PBP), Pat Nunley (Analyst)
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ALCORN STATE BRAVES (1-9)
Location: Lorman, Miss.
Conference/Affiliation: SWAC
Head Coach: Landon Bussie (Xavier-La., 2010)
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Story lines
• No. 1 Baylor hosts Alcorn State at 6 pm CT Monday in its final game before the Christmas break.
• BU and Alcorn are meeting for the 6th time. BU is 5-0 in the series, including 3-0 in the Drew era.
• Baylor won 105-76 in last season's meeting, with 6 Bears scoring in double-figures.
• BU has the nation's longest winning streak (16), with 9 at neutral sites and all wins by 8+ points.
• BU has won a school-record 19-straight home games, averaging a +26.1 scoring margin in those wins.
• Baylor is 31-1 at home over the last 2+ seasons, with the lone loss by 3 to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.
• Baylor is No. 1 in the Dec. 13 AP Top 25, marking a 3rd-straight season the Bears have held a No. 1 ranking (only BU and Gonzaga) and 4th time in last 6 seasons (only BU, Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas).
• BU received all 61 first-place votes in the AP Top 25, the first time BU has been a unanimous No. 1.
• Monday is Baylor's 17th all-time game as a No. 1-ranked team – BU is 14-2 while ranked No. 1.
• Baylor is 1 of 6 remaining undefeated teams (BU, Arizona, Colorado State, Iowa State, LSU, USC).
• Baylor is the nation's only team to win every game by 8+ points this season and the first returning national champion to win its first 10 games by 8+ points since 1990-91 UNLV.
• BU overcame a 10-point deficit to win 78-70 for Scott Drew's 400th career win Saturday at Oregon.
• The Bears held No. 6 Villanova to its fewest points since 1979 in a 57-36 win on Dec. 12 in Waco.
• Baylor has won 34 straight non-conference games (+22.4 average margin) dating back to Nov. 2019.
• BU has won 18-straight non-conference road/neutral games (last loss Nov. 8, 2019 vs. Washington).
• Baylor's bench has out-scored the opponents' bench in 9 of 10 games by an average of 32-20.
• BU is allowing only 6.2 second-chance points per game, while scoring 13.3 second-chance points.
• Baylor is averaging 13 more field goal attempts per game than its opponents (BU 65, OPP 52).
• Baylor is the nation's only team ranked top-45 in scoring offense (31st) and scoring defense (7th).
• Baylor ranks top-12 nationally in scoring margin (2nd, +25.0), steals (4th, 10.6), turnover margin (6th, +6.9), offensive rebounds (6th, 14.7) scoring defense (7th, 55.7), turnovers forced (8th, 19.0), assists (10th, 18.2) and rebounding margin (12th, +9.8).
• Baylor's defense has recorded 7+ steals and 13+ turnovers forced in all 10 games this season.
• BU defeated now-No. 12-ranked Michigan State, 75-58, in the Nov. 26 Battle 4 Atlantis title game.
• BU's 43-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is the nation's 3rd-longest behind Gonzaga and Villanova.
• Baylor was No. 8 in the preseason AP Top-25, snapping a school-record streak of 29-straight weeks top-5 ranked. The Bears are currently on a school-record streak of 35-straight weeks top-10 ranked.
• BU is 18-3 against ranked teams since beating No. 17 Villanova to win the 2019 Myrtle Beach Invite.
• BU has won 8-straight games against top-10 ranked teams, defeating Nos. 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 6, 1 and 6.
• Baylor has been ranked in all 25 spots in the AP Top 25 at some point in the last 7 years.
• Drew has swept AP and coaches' Big 12 Coach of the Year honors each of the last two seasons.
• BU has led by at least 4 points in all 70 games since the start of the 2019-20 season and built a double-digit lead in 61 of 70 games, including 37 of 40 games since the start of last season.
QUICK HITS
• Baylor's 64-6 record since the start of the 2019-20 season is the nation's best among Power-5 conference teams.
• BU is playing its 289th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, BU has been ranked in 273 of 410 games.
• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 4 of the last 6 seasons since 2017.
• Baylor and Kansas are the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.
• BU finished last season ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 8) for a 7th consecutive year.
• BU led the nation in 3-point pct. last season (.413) and ranked 3rd nationally in turnover margin (+5.5) and scoring margin (+17.4). The Bears were also top-10 in scoring (6th, 82.9), steals (9th, 8.9/gm) and assists (10th, 16.9/gm).
• Baylor's streak of 9 consecutive postseasons is tied as the nation's 7th-longest active streak.
• Baylor's 2 losses last seasons were its fewest losses since going 13-0 in 1911-12.
• Baylor is 40-21 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 13 seasons.
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 12 of the last 14 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
• Baylor is 14-3 in Big 12 road games over the last 2 seasons (rest of league is 59-99 in B12 road games).
• Baylor is 84-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4+ seasons (54-2 over last 2+ seasons, 24-0 last season).
• In the last two seasons, Baylor has recorded the longest winning streak in the Big 12 Conference's 26-year history (23 wins in 2019-20) and 4th-longest winning streak in Big 12 history (18 wins in 2020-21).
• Baylor has won 91% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (202-21).
• BU is 64-4 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 2+ seasons.
• Baylor is 255-99 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.
• Baylor's 255 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (294).
• Baylor is 346-146 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• Five of Baylor's players have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Two after transferring to BU (Flagler, Tchamwa Tchatchoua), one before transferring (Bonner) and two as freshmen — Turner and Langston Love.
• Ten of Baylor's 11 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (16 of last 17 seasons).
• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (7 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• Baylor has the nation's 9th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 973 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).
• BU is 7-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league. Combined with a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Series and 1-0 in the Big 12/Big East Battle, Baylor is 11-2 in conference challenges.
• Baylor has won 8 tournament titles under Drew – 2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 & 2021 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic, 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational and 2021 NCAA Championship.
For a full version of Baylor's Game Notes, click here.
