• Baylor is 13-13 in 11 previous NCAA Championships trips, including a 10-7 record in the Scott Drew era.
• Baylor is appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the last six seasons.
• Baylor is appearing in the NCAA postseason for a school-record eighth consecutive season (6 NCAA, 2 NIT).
• Baylor is making its ninth NCAA Tournament appearance in the modern tournament era. BU’s first three NCAA Tournament appearances in 1946, 1948 and 1950 were in an eight-team bracket.
• Baylor is one of 16 teams nationally to play in four Sweet 16s since 2010.
• Baylor has the nation’s eighth-best postseason winning percentage since 2009 (.714; 20-8) [min. 4 NCAA berths].
• Baylor is 32-19 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 11 seasons.
• Baylor has played in two Final Fours (1948 and 1950) — when it was an eight-team bracket — and one national championship game (lost to Kentucky in 1948 title game).
• Baylor has played 14 total games against eight different NCAA Tournament teams this season.
• BU is 7-7 against the 2019 NCAA Tournament field – No. 3 Texas Tech (1-1), No. 4 Kansas (0-2), No. 4 Kansas State (0-2), No. 6 Iowa State (2-1), No. 8 Ole Miss (0-1), No. 9 Oklahoma (2-0), No. 12 Oregon (1-0), No. 16 Prairie View A&M (1-0)
• Baylor and Syracuse will be meeting for the 3rd time, and Syracuse is 2-0 in the series. The Orange won in Syracuse, 94-71, on Dec. 16, 2006, and SU won 74-67 in the 2013 Maui Invitational championship game on Nov. 27, 2013.
• Baylor series records vs. potential Second Round opponents: Gonzaga (0-4), Fairleigh Dickenson (0-0), PVAMU (14-0).
• Seven of Baylor’s 13 losses this season came against 2019 NCAA Tournament teams.
• King McClure is Baylor’s only active player who was on the Bears’ 2017 Sweet 16 team. He has four games of NCAA Tournament experience — 2016 vs. Yale, 2017 vs. New Mexico State, 2017 vs. USC, 2017 vs. South Carolina.
• Makai Mason has two games of NCAA Tournament experience from Yale’s run in the 2017 tournament.
