Baylor
Northern Colorado
No. 5/6 MBB Closes Homestand by Hosting Northern Colorado
11/13/2022 5:58:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Head coach Scott Drew aims for 400th career win at Baylor
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BAYLOR BEARS 21-0) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
NORTHERN COLORADO (1-1) vs. 5/6 BAYLOR (2-0) November 14, 2022 • 7 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 / 92.3 FM in Central Texas and on the Varsity Network App. Talent: Dave Rosselli (PBP), Pat Nunley (Analyst) SIRIUS XM: Sirius 199, XM 199, Internet 953 Baylor Social Media:    |
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NORTHERN COLORADO (1-1) Location: Greeley, Colorado Conference/Affiliation: Big Sky Head Coach: Steve Smiley (Northern State, 2004) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
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• No. 5/6 Baylor hosts The University of Northern Colorado at 7 pm CT on Monday in the first meeting between the two squads since 1941.
• Monday marks the 2nd all-time meeting between this pair of Bears, with BU holding a 1-0 series advantage. In their last meeting Northern Colorado was known as Colorado State College of Education, at Greeley.
• Scott Drew is now just 1 win away from 400 wins at Baylor. He would become one of just 10 active coaches, and one of two in the Big 12 (Bill Self) with 400+ wins at their current school.
• In his 20th season at BU, Drew is coming off Big 12 Coach of the Year honors for a 3rd-straight season, joining Gene Keady (Purdue, 94-96) and Jay Wright (Villanova, 14-16) as the only high-major coaches to accomplish the feat.
• Drew's nephew Caleb Shaw is a freshman guard on the UNC roster. In two games this season, Shaw has played 47 minutes, averaging 13.0 points and 5.5 rebounds in two contests.
• The Bears are coming off an 87-70 win over Norfolk State where they shot 38 three-pointers, the second-most in the Scott Drew era and the fifth-most in school history.
• Keyonte George scored 23 points to lead the Bears, setting a career high for a second-straight game.
• George's 23 points were the most be a BU freshman since Jared Butler scored 31 at Kansas on 3/9/19.
• The 64-point win was BU's third-largest in program history, and 117 points were 1 shy of a Ferrell Center record.
• Baylor is 14-1 all time against teams from the Big Sky Conference.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 10 of 13 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor is 40-3 in non-conference games over the last three seasons.
• The Bears are 57-9 over the last 2-plus seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.
• Baylor is 83-13 over the last 3-plus seasons, the nation's 2nd-best record by a Power-5 team (Kansas).
• Baylor's streak of 10-consecutive postseason appearances is tied as the nation's 6th-longest active streak.
• BU won a school-record 26 regular-season games and finished with its 2nd-most conference wins (14) last season.
• Baylor is playing its 622nd game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (313) have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's rebuild.
•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 298 of 435 games.
• Baylor is 41-4 vs. unranked teams over the last 2 seasons.
• Baylor has won 13+ conference games in 3-straight seasons after never doing so prior to 2019-20.
• Adam Flagler is shooting .650 through two games this season, the best mark in the Big 12 Conference.
• BU has had multiple players score 20 points+ in two of the last three games.
• Jalen Bridges, Keyonte George and Langston Love all scored in double figures in their debuts against MVSU (11/7).
• Bridges has scored in double figures in both of his games at Baylor setting a BU career high with 20 points against Norfolk State (11/11).
• In a season-opening win against MVSU (11/7), BU shot 43 free throws, its most since shooting 48 against Nebraska in 2014.
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