No. 9 Men's Hoops Hosts UT Arlington
11/23/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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| 9/10 Baylor vs. UT Arlington Nov. 23, 2011 | 7:06 p.m. CT Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: FOX Sports Southwest/FOX Sports Houston/ESPN3 |
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STORY LINES
• No. 9/10 Baylor will play its second home game in 24 hours when it hosts UT €ˆArlington (3-0) at 7:06 p.m. CST €ˆon Wednesday at the Ferrell Center. Wednesday's game will be televised on FOX €ˆSports Southwest, FOX €ˆSports Houston and ESPN3. Live video will also be available at BaylorBears.com (All-Access subscription required).
• Baylor's No. 9 ranking in the latest AP €ˆTop 25 is tied for the highest in program history. Baylor was ranked No. 9 in both the AP and USA €ˆTODAY/ESPN polls for one week in December 2010.
• Baylor is 37-15 -- 36-14 in the Scott Drew era -- when ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, 30-10 when ranked in the USA €ˆTODAY/ESPN Coaches €ˆTop 25 and 28-9 all-time when ranked simultaneously in both polls.
• Baylor is off to its fourth consecutive 4-0 start and is seeking its third 5-0 start in the last four seasons.
• Baylor has won 22 straight non-conference home games and 36 of its last 37 non-conference home contests.
• Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 95-47 and has made three postseason appearances €ˆ(2008 NCAA, 2009 NIT, 2010 NCAA) and posted three 20-win seasons.
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 623 consecutive games -- the second-longest active streak in the Big 12.
• Senior €ˆF €ˆQuincy Acy needs 48 points to become the 25th 1,000-point scorer in program history. Acy would be the seventh 1,000-point scorer of the Scott Drew era, joining Aaron Bruce, Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat, Kevin Rogers, Tweety Carter and LaceDarius Dunn.
• Since the start of the 2009-10 season, Baylor is 34-4 at home. Baylor won a Ferrell Center-record 15 home games in both 2009-10 and 2010-11. Baylor is 60-13 in the last four-plus seasons at home.
• Brady Heslip (11-of-25), Anthony Jones (7-of-14) and Quincy Miller (6-of-10) are shooting a combined 49 percent from 3-point range, accounting for 24 of Baylor's 33 3-point FG through 4 games.
• Without the services of F Perry Jones III, Baylor's frontcourt Big 4 -- Miller, Jones, Acy and Cory Jefferson -- have amassed 185 of the Bears' 316 total points through 4 games (59 percent of the team's total scoring output).
• Wednesday will be the final game of a six-game suspension for F Perry Jones III, who was suspended by the NCAA in March.
UP NEXT
• No. 9/10 Baylor (4-0) concludes its season-opening six-game homestand Nov. 29 vs. Prairie View A&M. Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year Perry Jones III will make his 2011-12 season debut following his six-game suspension handed down by the NCAA €ˆin March.
• Baylor/Prairie View A&M will tip at 7:06 p.m. CST €ˆand will be the second of three regular-season games televised on FOX €ˆSports Southwest and FOX €ˆSports Houston.
QUICK HITS
• Baylor is 47-3 in its last 50 non-conference home games, dating back to the 2006-07 season.
• 19 of Baylor's last 20 non-conference home wins have been decided by double figures.
• Baylor is 34-6 in the month of November under Scott Drew.
• Baylor is 83-32 all-time in the month of November (regular-season only).
• Baylor is 76-22 against non-conference competition in the Drew era.
• More than 51 percent of senior F €ˆQuincy Acy's career field goals have been dunks (182 of 358).
• Acy ranks fourth in school history with 116 career blocks. Three of the top-5 blocks leaders have played for Drew.
• Senior F Anthony Jones has made 71 consecutive starts, while junior G A.J. Walton has made 34 consecutive starts.
• Jones has scored in double figures in 5 consecutive games, dating back to the end of the 2010-11 season. He scored a career-high 21 points on 9-of-14 shooting and swiped a career-high 5 steals in Nov. 22 win vs. South Carolina State.
• Walton ranks ninth in school history with 120 career steals and has 20 career games with 3+ steals.
• Sophomore G €ˆBrady Heslip has knocked down at least 2 treys in each of his first 4 games. 11 of Heslip's 12 FGM €ˆhave been from 3-point range; he is 12-of-28 on all FG €ˆattempts this season and 11-of-25 on 3FG €ˆattempts.
• Baylor's frontline fivesome of senior F Anthony Jones (6-foot-10, wingspan: 7 feet, 2 inches), senior F Quincy Acy (6-foot-7, wingspan: 7 feet, 3 inches), sophomore F Perry Jones III (6-foot-11, wingspan: 7 feet, 2 inches), redshirt sophomore F Cory Jefferson (6-foot-9, wingspan: 7 feet) and freshman F Quincy Miller (6-foot-9, wingspan: 7 feet, 4 inches) has a combined wingspan of 35 feet, 11 inches (width of NCAA €ˆplaying court is 50 feet).
• Jefferson has 25 points, 27 rebounds and 8 blocks in 4 games (71 minutes); as a true freshman in 2009-10, he had 27 points, 25 rebounds and 4 blocks in 21 games (97 minutes).
• Miller, one of the nation's most heralded freshmen, is averaging a team-best 11.0 points at a 60 percent clip in the second half.
SERIES HISTORY
• Wednesday will be the 14th series meeting between Baylor and UT €ˆArlington -- with all 14 series meetings in Waco. Baylor leads the all-time series 12-1 and has won the last six meetings.
SERIES NOTES: Wednesday will be only the second time in series history that Baylor is ranked at the time of the series meeting ... In 2009 meeting, Ekpe Udoh finished one block shy of a triple-double, posting 22 points, 16 rebounds and 9 blocks ... In 2008 meeting, Curtis Jerrells scored 29 points and was 16-of-17 at FT €ˆline ... In 13 series meetings, Baylor is averaging 85.8 points, while allowing just 71.0 points ... Four of the last six series meeting have decided by fewer than 10 points.
