NOTE: I will not be able to watch this game. I will be in Sweetwater with Aledo in its playoff game and probably won't be getting home until 3:00 a.m. Mr. Spears will take you through it.
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Bears are in Las Vegas Friday and Sunday. They get Cavaliers tonight and then either UCLA or Illinois Sunday.
Obviously, a terrible week at Virginia following the shooting deaths of three football players. While UVA canceled Monday's game against UNI, there was never any indication it would come out to Las Vegas.
The 2019 National Champions have also played two gimmes and shooting 49 percent and 48 percent from the arc through the first two.
Two players to watch are senior guard Armaan Franklin who is off to a good start at 14.5 points and 53 percent from the field. Freshman guard Ryan Dunn out of Freeport, NY has evolved quickly with 13 points in his first game last week.
STORY LINES
• No. 5/6 Baylor hosts heads to the Continental Tire Main Event in Las Vegas, where they will open with the second all-time meeting between BU and Virginia.
• Monday marks the 2nd all-time meeting between the Bears and Cavaliers. They last met Dec. 28, 1968 with BU winning 79-61.
• The game will feature two of the last three national champions. UVA Beat Texas Tech 85-77 in the 2019 National Championship Game, while BU dispatched Gonzaga 86-70 in 2021.
• This is the earliest BU has faced a ranked team in a season since they hosted No. 4 Oregon on Nov. 15, 2016.
• Baylor is 22-6 against AP top 25 teams over the last three seasons, including a13-4 mark against top 25 teams away from home.
• BU has won 18 of its last 20 non-conference games at road or neutral sites.
• Having won the Battle 4 Atlantis last season, Baylor is 39-12 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 5-1 in their last six 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 .705 (366-153) 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 299 points through the first three games, the most in program history.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 10 of 13 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor is 41-3 in non-conference games over the last three seasons.
• The Bears are 58-9 over the last 2-plus seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.
• Baylor is 84-13 over the last 3-plus seasons, the nation's 2nd-best record by a Power-5 team (Kansas).
• 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 623rd game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (314) have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's rebuild.
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Bears are in Las Vegas Friday and Sunday. They get Cavaliers tonight and then either UCLA or Illinois Sunday.
Obviously, a terrible week at Virginia following the shooting deaths of three football players. While UVA canceled Monday's game against UNI, there was never any indication it would come out to Las Vegas.
The 2019 National Champions have also played two gimmes and shooting 49 percent and 48 percent from the arc through the first two.
Two players to watch are senior guard Armaan Franklin who is off to a good start at 14.5 points and 53 percent from the field. Freshman guard Ryan Dunn out of Freeport, NY has evolved quickly with 13 points in his first game last week.
STORY LINES
• No. 5/6 Baylor hosts heads to the Continental Tire Main Event in Las Vegas, where they will open with the second all-time meeting between BU and Virginia.
• Monday marks the 2nd all-time meeting between the Bears and Cavaliers. They last met Dec. 28, 1968 with BU winning 79-61.
• The game will feature two of the last three national champions. UVA Beat Texas Tech 85-77 in the 2019 National Championship Game, while BU dispatched Gonzaga 86-70 in 2021.
• This is the earliest BU has faced a ranked team in a season since they hosted No. 4 Oregon on Nov. 15, 2016.
• Baylor is 22-6 against AP top 25 teams over the last three seasons, including a13-4 mark against top 25 teams away from home.
• BU has won 18 of its last 20 non-conference games at road or neutral sites.
• Having won the Battle 4 Atlantis last season, Baylor is 39-12 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 5-1 in their last six 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 .705 (366-153) 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 299 points through the first three games, the most in program history.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 10 of 13 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• Baylor is 41-3 in non-conference games over the last three seasons.
• The Bears are 58-9 over the last 2-plus seasons, the nation's best record by a Power-5 team.
• Baylor is 84-13 over the last 3-plus seasons, the nation's 2nd-best record by a Power-5 team (Kansas).
• 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 623rd game of the 20-year Drew era – more than half (314) have been as a ranked team, a remarkable feat considering BU was unranked for the first 122 games of Drew's rebuild.
