Baylor
West Virginia
MBB Set for Saturday Matinee against WVU
2/14/2025 9:50:00 AM | Men's Basketball
BU has won six-straight against the Mountaineers
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NR/RV BAYLOR BEARS (15-9, 7-6 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF ) |
WEST VIRGINIA (15-9, 6-7 Big 12) vs. NR/RV BAYLOR (15-9, 7-6 Big 12) Feb. 15, 2025 • 1:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast WATCH: ESPN2 Talent: Chuckie Kempf (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: John Morris (PBP), Pat Nunley (Analyst) SIRIUS XM: SiriusXM 387 or on the SXM App Baylor Social Media:    |
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WVU MOUNTAINEERS (15-9, 6-7 Big 12) Location: Morgantown, W.V. Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Darian DeVries (UNI, 1998) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Story lines
• Baylor opens a two-game homestand in a Saturday matinee with West Virginia at 1 p.m. on ESPN2
• The Bears are carrying a three-game home win streak and an 11-1 mark at home this season averaging 87.5 points per game and outscoring teams by an average of 26.4 points per game
• BU has won nine of the last 10 meetings against West Virginia and six of the last eight games in Waco
• In the last meeting Baylor won 94-81, its most points in a regulation Big 12 game since scoring 107 against Kansas State on Jan. 27, 2021
• The six-game win streak by Baylor is the longest by either team in series history
• Last time out, Baylor fell to Houston 76-65 despite shooting .579 from the field, BU's highest shooting percentage in a loss in the Scott Drew Era
• The second-best offensive rebounding team in the Big 12, The Bears were limited to just four offensive boards, its fewest since February of 2010
• Going for its eighth conference win, BU has 8+ Big 12 wins in 13-straight seasons after winning 8+ just 3 times in the league's first 15 years
• BU is 169-104 in Big 12 play in 15 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons
• Baylor has 71 conference wins over the last six seasons, second only to Kansas' 74, the next closest team in that span is Texas Tech with 56
• The Bears have lost 27 games and counting due to injuries this season: Langston Love (14), Jeremy Roach (6), Jalen Celestine (4) VJ Edgecombe (2) and Josh Ojianwuna (1) (Out for the season)
• Of the 980 minutes of game time this season, Baylor has had it's full complement of rotation players for just 189:56 (19.4%)
• In the absence of Ojianwuna, Baylor's Norchad Omier has been forced to play extended miniutes, but has led the team in scoring in each of the last three games
• The fifth-year senior continues to climb the record books, recording 80 career double-doubles, which is tied for the eighth-most all-time
• His 1,561 career rebounds are 19th-most in NCAA history and he is 10 rebounds from moving past Wake Forest's Tim Duncan for 17th all-time
• Omier's 12 double-doubles are the most by a Baylor Bear in a season since Jo Lual-Acuil had 13 in 2017-18
• The dynamic freshman duo of Edgecombe and Rob Wright have stepped their games up as of late averaging 18.3 and 15.2 points per game, respectively, in Baylor's last five games
• Wright is now just 8 assists away from tying the freshman assist record held by John Lucas III
• Averaging 15.0 and 12.6 points per game for the season, Edgecombe and Wright are looking to become the first BU freshmen to average 13.0+ points per game in the same year since Lawrence Roberts and John Lucas III averaged 16.6 and 13.2 in 2001-02
• Seven of Baylor's nine losses have come against teams that have been ranked in the top-10 at some point this season, while Gonzaga, Tennessee, UConn, Iowa State and Houston have been ranked in the top 4. Eight of their nine losses are Quad-1 losses
• According to KenPom, BU enters the week with the third-toughest schedule in the country and the toughest in the Big 12
