Baylor
Cincinnati
MBB wraps its two-game road swing in Tuesday-night tilt with Cincinnati
2/24/2025 2:08:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The Bears enter at 4-0 all-time against the Bearcats
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BAYLOR BEARS (16-11, 8-8 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF ) |
BAYLOR (16-11, 8-8 Big 12) vs. CINCINNATI (16-11, 6-10 Big 12) Feb. 25, 2025 • 6:00 p.m. CT Cincinnati, Ohio • Fifth Third Arena (12,012) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast WATCH: ESPN+ Talent: Matt Schumacker (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) NATIONAL RADIO: Westwood One Talent: Kevin Kugler (pxp), Steve Lappas (analyst) SIRIUS XM: SiriusXM 380 or on the SXM App Baylor Social Media:    |
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CINCINNATI BEARCATS (16-11, 6-10 Big 12) Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Wes Miller (UNC, 2007) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Story lines
• Baylor wraps its two-game road swing in a Tuesday-night tilt with Cincinnati at 6 p.m. on ESPN2
• Tuesday is Baylor's first trip to the Queen City since December of 1946
• The Bears aim to remain perfect against the Bearcats, owing a 4-0 mark all-time
• After not meeting for 78 years, the Bears and Bearcats are meeting for the fourth-time in the two seasons
• In the last meeting, Baylor held UC to just 48 points, the fewest vs. a Big 12 foe since 2020 vs. Texas, when BU held the Horns to 45 on Feb. 10, 2020
• Baylor dropped its last contest at Colorado on Saturday despite out-rebounding the Buffs 37-34, its first conference loss this season (7-1) when beating a Big 12 opponent on the boards
• BU's Norchad Omier recorded his 15th double-double of the season the most by a Baylor player since Rico Gathers had 17 in 2014-15.
• Omier's 15 double-doubles this season are tied with Tommy Bowman for the fifth most in a season in program history
• With 1,595 career rebounds, Omier is seven rebounds from tying Elvin Hayes for 15th all-time and 11 from tying Bill Russell for 14th all-time
• VJ Edgecombe is showing why he continues to climb draft boards, averaging a team-leading 18.1 points per game over his last 10 games, shooting 49% from the field and 86% from the line
• Edgecombe ranks eighth in the Big 12, averaging 16.7 points per game in conference play and with 14.7 points per game, he is on pace to tie for the fifth-best scoring average by a freshman in BU history
• Against Colorado, Robert Wright set the Baylor single-season freshman assist record (122), after setting the single-game record of 13 against Norfolk State earlier this season
• Shooting .752 from the line, The Bears are on pace for their best year at the charity stripe since 1967-68 (.765)
• Baylor has 8+ Big 12 wins for a 14th-straight season after winning 8+game just 3 times in the league's first 15 years
• Baylor has 72 conference wins over the last six seasons, second only to Kansas' 75, the next closest team in that span is Texas Tech with 58
• BU is 170-106 in Big 12 play in 15 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons
• The Bears have lost 30 games and counting due to injuries this season: Langston Love (14), Jeremy Roach (6), Jalen Celestine (4) VJ Edgecombe (2) and Josh Ojianwuna (4) (Out for the season)
• Of the 1,105 minutes of game time this season, Baylor has had it's full complement of rotation players for just 189:56 (17.2%)
• Averaging 14.6 and 12.1 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
• Nine of Baylor's 11 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. Nine of their 11 losses are Quad-1 losses
• BU is 32-20 in Big 12 Road games since 2019-20, The best mark in the league in that span
• According to KenPom, BU enters the week with the sixth-toughest schedule in the country and the toughest in the Big 12
