Baylor
UCLA
No. 5/6 MBB Set for Top-10 Showdown with No. 8/7 UCLA
11/19/2022 5:15:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BU is 9-1 in its last 10 meetings with Pac 12 foes
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BAYLOR BEARS (3-1) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
8/7 UCLA (3-1) vs. 5/6 BAYLOR (2-0) November 20, 2022 • 4:30 p.m. CT Las Vegas, Nevada • T-Mobile Arena (18,000) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast WATCH: ESPN Talent: John Schriffen (pxp), Fran Fraschilla (analyst) LISTEN: Learfield/ ESPN 1660 AM / 92.3 FM in Central Texas and on the Varsity Network App. Talent: Pat Nunley (PBP), PDavid Kaye (Analyst) SIRIUS XM: Sirius 202, XM 202, Internet 965 Baylor Social Media:    |
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UCLA BRUINS (3-1) Location: Los Angeles, Calif. Conference/Affiliation: Pac 12 Head Coach: Mick Cronin (Cincinnati, 1997) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
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• No. 5/6 Baylor closes out the Continental Tire Main Event with its fifth all-time matchup with UCLA, but the first meeting between the two schools since Dec. 23, 1975.
• Baylor is 9-1 in its last 10 meetings with Pac 12 opponents, including 5-straight wins over Pac 12 foes.
• Scott Drew will face a third-straight opponent for the first time in his career.
• Baylor is 22-7 against AP top 25 teams over the last three seasons, including a13-5 mark against top 25 teams away from home.
• BU has won 18 of its last 21 non-conference games at road or neutral sites.
• Baylor is 39-13 in regular-season tournaments during the Drew era, including 26-4 since 2013-14.
• Baylor is making it's first appearance in Las Vegas since they opened the 2020-21 campaign in the Vegas Bubble with wins over Louisiana and Washington, They would go on to win the National Championship that next April.
• The Bears are 5-2 in their last seven games played in Las Vegas.
• With a 95-62 win over Northern Colorado on Monday, Scott Drew became one of 10 active coaches with 400 wins at his current institution.
• Drew has a winning percentage of .700 (366-154) since BU's first year with no scholarship restrictions in 2007-08.
• 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.
• With a 117-53 win in the season opener against Mississippi Valley State (11/7), BU notched the third-largest margin of victory in program history, and 117 points were 1 shy of a Ferrell Center record.
• In an 87-70 win over Norfolk State, BU shot 38 three-pointers, the second-most in the Scott Drew era and the fifth-most in school history.
• Adam Flagler notched his third-career double-double to lift BU to a 95-62 win over UNC, to improve to 3-0 (11/14).
• BU has scored 378 points through the first three games, the most in the Scott Drew era and the most since the start of the 1992 season.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 10 of 13 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor is 41-4 in non-conference games over the last three seasons.
• The Bears are 58-10 over the last 2-plus seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.
• Baylor is 84-14 over the last four seasons, the nation's best winning percentage among Power-5 teams.
• 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 624th game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (315) 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 300 of 437 games.
• Baylor is 41-4 vs. unranked teams over the last 2 seasons.
