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No. 17 MBB Set for Another Big Monday Matchup with Texas
1/29/2023 2:33:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BU has won the last six meetings with both teams ranked
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17/17 BAYLOR BEARS (16-5, 5-3 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
10/10 TEXAS (17-4, 6-2) vs. 17/17 BAYLOR (16-5, 5-3) Jan. 30, 2022 • 8:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • The Ferrell Center (10,284) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast WATCH: ESPN Talent: Jon Sciambi (pxp), Fran Fraschilla (analyst), Kris Budden (reporter) LISTEN: Learfield/ ESPN 1660 AM / 92.3 FM in Central Texas and on the Varsity Network App. Talent: John Morris (PBP), Pat Nunley SIRIUS XM: Sirius 199, XM 199, Internet 953 Baylor Social Media:    |
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10/10 TEXAS LONGHORNS (16-5, 6-2 Big 12) Location: Austin, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Rodney Terry (St. Edwards — 1987) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
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• No. 17 Baylor returns to ESPN's Big Monday for a second-straight week in a top-25 tilt at Texas.
• Monday is the 260th series meeting – the most-played rivalry in Baylor history dating back 107 years.
• BU enters Monday with a 20-21 record against Texas under Scott Drew.
• Baylor is 12-1 in its last 13 games vs. Texas since Feb. 20, 2016 (5-0 in Waco, 6-1 in Austin, 1-0 in KC).
• BU is 22-8 vs. Texas since snapping a 24-game series losing streak at the 2009 Big 12 Championship.
• Baylor has won the last six series meetings when Texas was ranked, with an average margin of victory of 14.8 points per game.
• Baylor is 6-1 in Austin since 2016 with the lone loss in 2019. BU was 28-88 in Austin prior to that.
• Baylor won the final game at the Frank Erwin Center with a 68-61 victory at No. 21 Texas in the last meeting.
• BU is coming off a 67-64 win against former Southwest Conference foe Arkansas in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
• The Bears won a third-straight over Arkansas in front of the second-largest crowd in Ferrell Center history.
• The Bears defeated eight different teams in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge and won all five meetings at the Ferrell Center.
• Baylor is 18-11 against the SEC during the Drew era, including 13-7 since 2012-13.
• With a win over No. 9 Kansas on Monday, BU is now 12-1 in its last 13 games against AP Top-10 teams.
• In that time, BU has wins over Nos. 5, 9, 6, 6, 10, 6, 1, 6, 8, 5, 8 and 9.
• The Bears are 25-8 vs. AP top-25 teams over the last four years, with 15 of those wins coming away from home.
• At 24-6, BU has the best Big 12 road record over the last four seasons, and is one of just three teams with a .500+ road record in the conference during that span.
• Baylor is 78-21 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' 23 Division I teams in five of the last nine seasons.
• Baylor's starting guard trio of George, Adam Flagler and LJ Cryer ranks as the sixth-highest scoring back court trio in college basketball (47.2 ppg, second-best in the power six — NC State).
• Keyonte George's 17.2 points per game rank third among freshman in Division I.
• George Has nine 20-point games this season are tied for the most by a BU freshman since Aaron Bruce had nine in 2004-2005.
• The Bears had a season-high 30 second-chance points against the Sooners (1/21), the most since they had 32 against Washington State on 12/23/2010.
• Baylor's 47-10 Big 12 record over the last four seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.
• BU is 161-92 in Big 12 play in 13 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons.
• After a one-week absence from the AP Top 25 earlier this month, the Bears are back in the top 25 and have now been ranked in 68 of the last 69 AP Polls.
• All five of BU's losses have come against teams currently ranked in the top 20 of the AP Top 25, and in the top 25 of the latest NCAA Net rankings.
• The Bears are the second best offense in the nation (best in the conference) according to Ken Pom (119.7
