Feb. 5, 2009

GAME CENTER: GAME 23
[NR/RV] BAYLOR BEARS (15-7, 3-5) AT TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS (11-11, 1-6)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
Tip-Off: 7 p.m. CT
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Arena: United Spirit Arena (15,098)
Television: ESPNU
Talent: Clay Matvick (pxp), Dickey Simpkins (color)
Radio: Baylor ISP Sports Network; ESPN/KRZI 1660 AM (Waco)/Sirius Satellite (Ch. 161); BaylorBears.com
Talent: John Morris (pxp), Pat Nunley (color)
Live Stats: BaylorBears.com
Web Stream: BaylorBears.com (live audio)
Series: Texas Tech leads 73-44
Tickets: (254) 710-1000

GAME NIGHT STORY LINES
• Baylor looks to snap its season-high four-game losing streak Saturday when the Bears go for the series sweep of the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Lubbock. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. on ESPNU.
• Baylor has won three straight against the Red Raiders - all against Texas Tech head coach Pat Knight - and is 5-6 under head coach Scott Drew.
• Saturday's game will be Baylor's ninth on the ESPN family of networks this season (Baylor is 4-4 this season).
• LaceDarius Dunn currently owns a streak of 27 consecutive games with at least one 3-pointer made - the third-longest streak in Baylor history. He is one game shy of tying former teammate Aaron Bruce (28) for the second-longest streak. He has made at least one 3-point field goal in 51 of his 53 career games.
• Baylor has trailed at halftime in six of its eight Big 12 games this season.
• Baylor is 6-38 in its last 44 Big 12 road games (5-7 in its last two seasons after starting 1-31).
• Baylor's senior class has amassed 55 victories (55-47 in three-plus seasons) and needs eight more wins to become the winningest senior class in school history.
• In the last nine games, Quincy Acy and Kevin Rogers are shooting a combined 55.3 percent from the floor (73-of-132), while the rest of the team is shooting 39.7 percent (167-of-421).
• Baylor seniors Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat and Kevin Rogers have accounted for 49.2 percent of the Bears' offense since arriving in 2005-06. The trio has scored 3,835 of Baylor's 7,789 points in 102 games.
• Curtis Jerrells is seven starts away from becoming the school's all-time leader in career games started.
• Kevin Rogers has scored in double figures in 13 straight games.
• Curtis Jerrells was held to a career-low four points in Monday's loss to No. 21 Kansas.
• Monday was the 14th time that Jerrells was held to less than 10 points in 56 career Big 12 games. Baylor is 4-10 in those games (4-3 since the start of the 2007-08 season).

SERIES HISTORY
• Texas Tech leads the all-time series 73-44, but Baylor has won the last three meetings and 5 of the last 6, including a 73-61 win earlier this season at the Ferrell Center.
• Baylor is 5-6 under head coach Scott Drew.
• Four of Baylor's last five wins vs. Texas Tech have come by 10 or more points.
• Texas Tech leads the series in Lubbock 42-12. Baylor's 86-73 win last season was its first win in Lubbock since 1998.

TEXAS TECH SCOUTING REPORT
• Since its 73-61 loss at Baylor in January, Texas Tech has lost five of its last six games, including a late-second 81-80 loss at Oklahoma State Wednesday night.
• Texas Tech is 10-3 at the United Spirit Arena this season and 1-3 after starting the season 9-0 at home. Tech's lone home win in Big 12 play was a 63-55 victory vs. Colorado on Jan. 20.
• John Roberson and Alan Voskuil pace the Red Raiders offensively with 14.6 and 13.9 points, respectively, through 22 games. Roberson and Voskuil are the only Red Raiders averaging 30 or more minutes overall and in Big 12 play.
• Roberson is averaging 6.3 assists overall and 6.9 assists in Big 12 games.

LAST TIME VS. TEXAS TECH - JAN. 10, 2009
• LaceDarius Dunn scored 20 points, including 11 in a row in a second-half spurt that put No. 23 Baylor ahead for good, in a 73-61 victory over Texas Tech in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
• Dunn's game-deciding spurt began with just over 12 minutes left when he hit a 3-pointer. After a Texas Tech free throw tied the game at 45, Dunn hit another 3-pointer with 11:11 left and the Bears led for good.
• Dunn, who made five 3-pointers, led five players scoring in double figures for Baylor. Kevin Rogers scored 14 points and pulled down 14 rebounds, while Curtis Jerrells had 13 points. Tweety Carter added 11 and Henry Dugat chipped in 10.
• Baylor, opening conference play as a Top 25 team for the first time in team history, was down 7-0 less than two minutes into the game.
• But Baylor didn't go ahead until Rogers' inside basket made it 17-15 with 10:50 left in the first half. That was part of a 12-0 run in which Dunn had two 3-pointers and put Baylor ahead until the second half.

LAST TIME OUT - (21) KANSAS 75, BAYLOR 65
• Baylor's losing streak reached four games after the 21st-ranked Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Bears 75-65 on their home floor on ESPN's Big Monday.
• Baylor is now 1-14 all-time vs. Kansas.
• Henry Dugat and Kevin Rogers each scored a team-high 15 points for the Bears, leading four players in double figures.
• With Kansas leading 46-35 in the second half, Baylor went on a 12-2 run to cut the lead to one, 48-47. But, the Jayhawks answered with a 10-3 run to build an insurmountable 11-point lead, 66-55.
• Curtis Jerrells scored a career-low four points, going 0-for-7 from the floor - his first career game without a made field goal.

UP NEXT - OKLAHOMA (FEB. 11)
• Baylor seeks redemption from its 95-76 loss in Norman last month and put an end to its 29-game losing streak in the series when it faces No. 2 Oklahoma on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Ferrell Center.
• Oklahoma has won 15 straight games in Waco and hasn't lost on the Bears' home floor since Dec. 14, 1954.
• Wednesday's game will tip at 8 p.m. on ESPN2. Terry Gannon (pxp) and Stephen Bardo (color) will serve as the talent for the ESPN production.

A ROAD WIN IN THE BIG 12 IS HARD TO FIND
• Baylor is 6-38 in its last 44 Big 12 road games, including a 5-7 mark dating back to last season.
• Baylor's 18-point win at Kansas State in January was its first win in Manhattan under Scott Drew.
• After defeating Texas A&M on the road in 2004, Baylor lost 25 straight Big 12 road games until beating Nebraska in 2008.
• Under Drew, Baylor has posted road wins against five different Big 12 schools, but the Bears are still winless on the road at six others.
• Baylor still visits three of those schools this season - Oklahoma State (0-5), Iowa State (0-2) and Texas (0-5).

BAYLOR'S SUCCESS VS. BIG 12 TEXAS SCHOOLS
• Under head coach Scott Drew, Baylor is a combined 8-26 (.235) against the Texas schools of the Big 12 - Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech.
• Baylor has had the most success against the Red Raiders, posting a 5-6 record, including three straight victories.
• The Bears will have a second chance against Texas A&M at the Ferrell Center on Feb. 14 before traveling to Austin to face Texas on March 2.
• Baylor is 3-8 under Drew vs. Texas A&M and 0-12 vs. Texas.
• In the Big 12 era, BU is 24-58 (.292) vs. its Lone Star counterparts - 11-15 vs. Texas A&M; 10-16 vs. Texas Tech; 3-27 vs. Texas.

DREW CLOSING IN ON 100 CAREER VICTORIES AT BAYLOR
• Entering Saturday's contest at Missouri, head coach Scott Drew is 72-87 in five-plus seasons at Baylor. Drew currently ranks 6th all-time at BU in victories and trails Gene Iba by 16 wins for 5th place.

THE BEST 3-POINT SHOOTING TEAM IN BU HISTORY?
• Four of the top eight 3-point shooters in Baylor history are on the current 2008-09 Bears roster. Senior Curtis Jerrells currently leads the group with 177 treys, good for 4th all-time.
• Henry Dugat and Tweety Carter are tied for 5th with 154 triples, while LaceDarius Dunn is currently 8th with 144 3-pointers.
• Dunn will move into 7th place all-time on his next good 3-pointer.

JERRELLS STARTING HIS WAY INTO THE RECORD BOOK
• Entering Saturday at Texas Tech, senior guard Curtis Jerrells has started 102 consecutive games and is one of only four players to start 100 or more games in his career.
• Jerrells is currently tied for third all-time with Brian Skinner at 102 starts. He is six shy of tying the school record held by Doug Brandt (108).

KEEPING JERRELLS IN CHECK
• Kansas held Curtis Jerrells to a career-low-tying four points in the Bears' 75-65 loss to the No. 21 Jayhawks on Monday night.
• The senior guard went 0-for-7 from the floor, marking the first game in his career without a made field goal.
• Jerrells has scored four points four times in his career - once each season.
• He has scored a total of nine points in his last two games - his lowest two-game total in his career.
• It was the 14th time that Jerrells was held to less than 10 points in 56 career Big 12 games. Baylor is 4-10 in those games (4-3 since the start of the 2007-08 season).

SENIOR CLASS SCORING TRIFECTA
• Baylor seniors Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat and Kevin Rogers could very well be the most prolific group of senior scorers in Baylor history by season's end. Jerrells, Dugat and Rogers are the first senior class at Baylor with three players on the school's 1,000-point scoring list.
• Together, they have scored 3,835 points, accounting for 49.2 percent of Baylor's offense since arriving in 2005-06. BU has scored 7,789 points in the 102 games.

BEARS GO FOR THIRD BIG 12 SWEEP UNDER DREW
• Saturday, Baylor will attempt just its third Big 12 season series sweep of the Scott Drew era when the Bears face Texas Tech. Earlier this season, the Bears defeated the Red Raiders 73-61 in Waco.
• Last season, Baylor swept both meetings with Texas Tech.
• Baylor's first Big 12 season series sweep came in 2004 against the Texas A&M Aggies - Drew's first season at Baylor.

CONSECUTIVE GAMES WITH A 3-POINTER STREAK
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 534 straight games - the 2nd longest active streak in the Big 12. Baylor has connected from 3-point range at least once in every game since going 0-for-8 in a home win vs. Texas Tech on Feb. 21, 1990.
• LaceDarius Dunn currently owns a streak of 25 consecutive games with at least one 3-pointer made.
• Dunn has made a 3-pointer in 51 of his 53 career games. He did not make a triple vs. Iowa State (1/12/08) and at Colorado (2/27/08).

CONSECUTIVE GAMES WITH 3-POINT FG STREAKS (SINCE 1986)

BEARS BASKETBALL ON THE AIR
• Bear basketball is aired live via the Baylor-ISP SportsNetwork on flagship station 1660AM ESPN Radio (KRZI) in Waco and worldwide on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 161. All games are broadcast by the "Voice of the Bears" John Morris, a veteran broadcaster in his 14th season, and former BU basketball standout Pat Nunley, in his 27th season as analyst.

INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS TV SHOW
• Inside Baylor Sports, the award winning weekly TV show that covers all aspects of Baylor athletics, returns for its 10th season in 2008-09.
• Senior Producer Robert Shiekh and Producer Lawrence Gilligan provide viewers an inside look at Baylor athletics with thorough highlights, in-depth interviews and imaginative features on all 18 sports presented in a fast-paced, entertaining style. Co-hosts John Morris and Lori Fogleman guide viewers through the best coverage of Baylor athletics on television.
• Inside Baylor Sports airs Sundays, Aug. 24, 2008 through June 7, 2009, at 10:30 p.m. CT on KCEN-TV in Central Texas. The program also airs weekly throughout the region on FS Southwest at 1 p.m. each Wednesday and is archived on the web at BaylorTV.com. Inside Baylor Sports also may been seen nationally on CBS College Sports Television.