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Quick Facts: Baylor men vs. Oregon

Quick Facts: Baylor men vs. Oregon
Posted at 10:47 PM, Dec 20, 2018
and last updated 2018-12-20 23:47:56-05

• Baylor hosts Oregon at 6 p.m. CT Friday in the first game of a home-and-home series.
• Friday's game will be televised on ESPN2 with Mark Neely and Fran Fraschilla calling the action.
• BU and Oregon meet for the 3rd time. The teams split a home-and-home series in 2015 and 2016.
• Oregon won 74-67 in Eugene on Nov. 16, 2015 and Baylor won 66-49 in Waco on Nov. 15, 2016.
• Scott Drew is in his 16th season in Waco and is the Bears' all-time wins leader (302-199).
• Baylor is 10-4 against Pac-12 teams during the Drew era (1-0 vs. Arizona, 4-0 vs. Arizona State, 2-1 vs. Colorado, 1-1 vs. Oregon, 1-0 vs. USC and 1-2 vs. Washington State).
• BU is coming off a buzzer-beater 59-58 loss to SFA on Tuesday night at the Ferrell Center.
• Baylor won 58-49 at Arizona on Saturday. The Bears out-rebounded UA 51-19 and became the first team to hold Arizona below 50 points since Feb. 26, 2011 – breaking a streak of 271 games scoring 50+ points.
• The win at Arizona snapped the Wildcats 52-game non-conference home winning streak.
• BU has used 9 different starters in its first 10 games, including 4 players making their first DI starts.
• Baylor returned 3 letterwinners from last year's team, the nation's fewest among Power-5 teams.
• King McClure is the lone returning senior, while Tristan Clark and Mark Vital are back as sophomores.
• BU added 9 newcomers for 2018-19, including 5 transfers (two Division I, two JuCo, one Division III).
• Makai Mason is the first grad transfer in program history after graduating from Yale in May.
• Mario Kegler (Mississippi State) and Freddie Gillespie (Carleton) are eligible after sitting out 2017-18.
• Darius Allen (Palm Beach State) and Devonte Bandoo (Hutchinson) joined the Bears as JuCo transfers.
• BU also added prep players Jared Butler, Matthew Mayer, Flo Thamba and Jackson Moffatt.
• Clark leads the nation with a 79.2 field goal percentage, which is 8.6% better than the closest player.
• Baylor ranks 4th nationally in block percentage (18.7), while Clark is 18th nationally with 2.6 bpg.
• Drew is 1 of 17 Division I coaches with 300+ wins at his current school (1 of 9 in Power-5 conferences).
• Baylor is 56-4 in its last 60 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.
• Baylor is 30-5 in home games against unranked opponents since 2016-17.
• Baylor is 121-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 95-8 since 2007-08.
• Baylor is 56-14 against in-state opponents since the start of the 2011-12 season.
• BU is 29-2 in December games against unranked opponents dating back to 2013. The Bears' only losses against unranked teams in that span were Dec. 1 at Wichita State and Dec. 18 vs. SFA.
• Baylor is 42-4 in regular-season non-conference games against unranked teams since December 2014.
• Baylor is 32-9 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 3 seasons since 2016-17.
• Baylor is 1 of 16 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (5 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• Baylor is 19-2 when leading at halftime since the start of the 2017-18 season (4-2 this season).
• Drew is coaching his 502nd game at Baylor (302-199). His .603 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .673 winning percentage since 2007-08 (268-130).
• BU is 74-17 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (6-2 this season).