Baylor
Gardner-Webb
No. 20 MBB Continues Home-stand Sunday Against Gardner-Webb
11/11/2023 2:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The Bears seeking a third win in six days
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20/17 BAYLOR BEARS (2-0, 0-0 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
20/17 BAYLOR (2-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs. GARDNER-WEBB (1-1, 0-0 Big South) Nov. 12, 2023 • 4:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast WATCH: ESPN+ Talent: John Morris (pxp), King McClure (analyst) LISTEN: Baylor Sports Media Network via ESPN 1660 AM / 92.3 FM in Central Texas and worldwide at centexsportsfan.com Talent: Ryan Boyd (PBP), David Kaye (Analyst) SIRIUS XM: SiriusXM 199 or on the SXM App Baylor Social Media:    |
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GARDNER-WEBB RUNNIN' BULLDOGS (1-1, 0-0 Big South) Location: Boiling Springs, N.C. Conference/Affiliation: Big South Head Coach: Tim Craft (Florida, 2000) Roster | Stats | |
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Story lines
• No. 20 Baylor plays host to Gardner-Webb in the first-ever meeting between the two schools
• The Bears are 4-0 all-time against teams from the Big South.
• BU's last meeting against a Big South opponent was a 73-57 win over USC Upstate in December of 2012.
• Baylor is 55-6 in home games over the last four seasons.
• Sunday marks one of just six remaining home games scheduled for the Ferrell Center this season.
• Baylor's game against Gardner-Webb will mark the third of four games in a seven-day stretch.
• Less than 48-hours after defeating Auburn in the season-opener, 88-82, The Bears beat a fiesty John Brown squad on Thursday morning 96-70.
• Langston Love matched a career-high with his team-leading 20-points against the Golden Eagles.
• RayJ Dennis notched his BU career high with 16 points, and a career-high 6 steals in the win.
• BU erased a nine-point halftime deficit in the season opener against Auburn to win 88-82 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.
• The nine-point halftime deficit matched BU's largest halftime deficit overcome in a win since coming back from 11 down to beat Texas in overtime on Feb. 27, 2019 in Waco.
• Five-star freshman Ja'Kobe Walter burst out of the gates against Auburn with 28-points, the most by a freshman in a debut in program history.
• Walter is one of four freshman in Big 12 history to score at least 28 points in his debut, and the only one to do it against a power conference opponent.
• Walter went a perfect 10-for-10 from the free throw line making him the ninth different player in program history to shoot 1.000 percent from the line [min. 10 attempts]
• Baylor is 79-13 vs. unranked teams over the last four seasons (.855%).
• BU is 80-20 over the last three-plus seasons, tied for the nation's best record by a Power-6 team in that span.
• Baylor has built leads of 10+ points in 52 of 75 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (49-3 record).
• The Bears opened the season as a ranked team for the fifth-straight season, and 11 of the last 14 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor is 106-24 over the last four-plus seasons, the nation's best winning percentage among Power-6 teams in that span.
• The Bears are a nations-best 27-11 vs. AP top-25 teams over the last four years, with 16 of those wins coming away from home.
• Baylor is replacing four of its five starters and 68% of its scoring from a season ago.
• Only one returning player averaged more than 20-minutes per game last season (Jalen Bridges).
• BU is playing its 348th game as a ranked team under Scott Drew — Baylor was ranked in just two of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, The Bears have been ranked in 330 of 469.
• BU is the only program with three-straight top-16 picks and only one of two with three-straight top-20 picks (Duke).
For a full version of Baylor's game notes, click here.
