 | | MEDIA INFORMATION | | Date | Sat., Jan. 21 | 1:05 p.m. CST
| | Location | Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284)
| | TV | ESPN
| | Live Video | Watch Online (ESPN3)
| | Radio | ESPN Central Texas/ Sirius / XM 91 | Listen | | Live Stats | | | Game Notes | Baylor | Missouri
| | Blog | BaylorBears.com
| | Twitter | @BaylorMBB | #TweetNotes | | 3/3 BAYLOR BEARS | | Record | 17-1, 4-1 Big 12
| | Ranking | 3 (AP), 3 (Coaches), 3 (RPI)
| | Last Game | L, 74-92 at No. 7/7 Kansas
| | Head Coach | Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) | | Career: 164-128 (10th season) | | BU Record: 144-117 (9th season) | 5/5 MISSOURI TIGERS
| | Record | 17-1, 4-1 Big 12
| | Ranking | 5 (AP), 5 (Coaches), 11 (RPI)
| | Last Game | W, 70-51 vs. Texas A&M
| | Head Coach | Frank Haith (Elon, 1988)
| | Career: 146-102 (8th season)
| | MU Record: 17-1 (1st season)
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STORY LINES
• After suffering its first loss of the season, No. 3/3 Baylor (17-1, 4-1) hosts No. 5/5 Missouri (17-1, 4-1) in a battle of Top 5 Big 12 teams at the Ferrell Center. Saturday's game will tip at 1:05 p.m. CST on ESPN and ESPN3 (WatchESPN.com).
• Baylor is 17-2 all-time when ranked in the Top 10 -- 14 of those wins have come this season.
• Saturday is the first €ˆTop 5 matchup and second €ˆTop 10 matchup in program history. It is also the first Top 10 men's basketball matchup in Ferrell Center history.
• Saturday marks the 24th series meeting and the 18th in the Big 12 era. Missouri leads the series 13-10 and has won three of the last four meetings. Baylor has won the last three series meetings in Waco. It also marks the first series meeting with both teams ranked in the Top 25.
• Missouri is the 12th Top 5 opponent -- and 20th Top 10 opponent -- in Ferrell Center history (MBB €ˆonly).
• Baylor is 17-1 to start the season for the first time in program history and won a school-record 17 consecutive games before suffering its first loss at Kansas. Baylor and Missouri are tied for the seventh-best one-loss starts in Big 12 Conference history.
• Sunday marks the 85th anniversary of The Immortal Ten, one of America's first sports tragedies. A bus carrying the Baylor basketball team was hit by a train in Round Rock, Texas -- 10 of the 21 players, coaches and fans on board did not survive.
• Baylor is 4-0 in games decided by 5 points or fewer this season.
• Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 637 consecutive games -- the second-longest active streak in the Big 12.
• Sophomore F Perry Jones III was named to the 2011-12 John R. Wooden Award €ˆMidseason List, which is made up of 25 student-athletes who are the frontrunners for college basketball's most prestigious honor.
• Jones III and junior G €ˆPierre Jackson were named Phillips 66 Big 12 Co-Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively, for games of Jan. 9-15.
• Senior F Quincy Acy ranks 17th in school history with 1,128 points. He also ranks second in career FG percentage (60.8), second in career blocks (150) and needs 3 rebounds to crack Baylor's career €ˆTop 10.
• In his last 49 games, Acy has blocked 88 shots, an average of 1.8 blocks per game (62 blocks in his first 70 games at Baylor).
• 51 of sophomore G Brady Heslip's 59 field goals have been from 3-point range. Heslip, who has made at least one 3FG in 17 of 19 games, has made multiple treys in 14 contests this season.
UP NEXT
• Baylor hits the road again Tuesday to face Oklahoma at 7 p.m. CST €ˆon the Big 12 Network. Doug Bell (play-by-play) and Bryndon Manzer (analyst) will call the action.
• Oklahoma leads the all-time series 37-8, but Baylor is 3-2 against the Sooners in the last five meetings.
TELEVISION COVERAGE
• Saturday is the last of three consecutive Baylor games on the ESPN €ˆfamily of networks. Baylor's second Top 10 matchup of the season will tip at 1:05 p.m. CST €ˆon ESPN. Mark Jones (play-by-play), Fran Fraschilla (analyst) and Holly Rowe (sideline reporter) will serve as the talent for the ESPN €ˆbroadcast.
85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IMMORTAL TEN
• Among Baylor's many rich traditions is an event that has had a lasting impact on the University and its athletic department; the story of The Immortal Ten, one of America's first sports tragedies.
• On Jan. 22, 1927, coach Ralph Wolf was taking his first Baylor basketball team to play a game in Austin against the University of Texas. Rain hampered the vision of the chartered bus driver as debris from the road sprayed the windshield of the bus. In Round Rock, Texas, just miles from the team's arrival in Austin, a speeding train from the I&GA Railroad Company rammed into the side of the bus at a railway crossing near the center of the city. Ten of the 21 players, coaches and fans in the Baylor party that traveled on the bus that day were killed.
• The Immortal Ten are honored each year during Homecoming, when freshman hear the tragic story and participate in a candlelight remembrance ceremony.
• On June 22, 2007, a monument was erected on campus in the new Traditions Square to honor The Immortal Ten.
• There was a hero of the accident, James Clyde "Abe" Kelly. Kelly, who was captain-elect of the 1927 football team, saw the train just before impact and pushed his roommate, Weir Washman, out of the bus' window. Kelly is credited with saving the life of his best friend at the greatest expense to himself. Kelly was one of the 10 who died in the collision.
• Others who did not survive the wreck were William Winchester, W.E. Murray, Merle Dudley, Sam Dillow, Jack Castellaw, L.R. "Ivey" Foster, Bob Hailey, R.L. Hannah and James Walker. Wesley Bradshaw, who is still in the top 10 on the Baylor football career scoring list, was seriously hurt. Gordon Barry, Joe Potter, Edgar Gooch, C.S. Bean, Keifer Strickland (an All-SWC selection), John Kane, Dave Cheavers (former Baylor journalism department chair) and coach Wolf were slightly injured. Washman and Louis Slade were unhurt.
• As a result, the remainder of the 1927 season was canceled, and the first overpass in Texas was constructed in Round Rock.
SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday marks the 24th series meeting and the 18th in the Big 12 era. Missouri leads the series 13-10 and has won three of the last four meetings. Baylor has won the last three series meetings in Waco.
• Baylor / Missouri is the second Top 10 and first Top 5 matchup in program history. Saturday will mark the first series meeting with both teams ranked in the €ˆTop 25.
SERIES NOTES: Baylor won the first three meetings in the series, posting its only two wins in Columbia (1948) ... Behind Curtis Jerrells' 28 points, Baylor posted its second straight Big 12 win during 2005-06 season ... Baylor knocked off Missouri in first round of 2007 Big 12 Championship, its first Big 12 tournament win since 2001 ... In 2008, Baylor overcome a 13-point second-half deficit and had seven players in double figures for a 100-89 home win ... Missouri ended Baylor's historic 2009 Big 12 Championship run with a 73-60 win over the Bears in the finals ... In 2010, Ekpe Udoh's tip-in with 1.3 seconds remaining gave €ˆNo. 24 Baylor a 64-62 home win.
HOLDING COURT AT HOME
• Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 66-13 at the Ferrell Center (23-11 in Big 12 home games), including a 40-4 home mark in the last three seasons (14-4 in Big 12 home games). In its first seven seasons in the Big 12, Baylor was 77-38 (.670) at home. In the Scott Drew era, the Bears are 92-40 (.697) at the Ferrell Center.
• Baylor has won 10 straight home games and has not lost at home since March 5, 2011, vs. Texas (54-60).
ANOTHER HOME WINNING STREAK
• Baylor enters Saturday against Missouri riding a 10-game home winning streak, which is tied for the third-longest in Ferrell Center history. A win would give Baylor its third home winning streak of 11+ games in Ferrell Center history (all in Scott Drew era).
BAYLOR AGAINST THE TOP 25
• No. 5/5 Missouri is Baylor's fourth Top 25 opponent of the 2011-12 season and second straight Top 10 opponent. Baylor has lost six straight games to Top 10 teams, with its last win vs. a Top 10 team Jan. 30, 2010, an 80-77 OT win at No. 6 Texas.
• Baylor is 28-141 all-time against Top 25 teams, including an 11-47 mark in the Scott Drew era. Baylor is 7-62 all-time against Top 10 opponents and 3-31 all-time against Top 5 opponents
JONES III NAMED TO WOODEN AWARD MIDSEASON LIST
• Sophomore F Perry Jones III was named to the 2011-12 John R. Wooden Award Midseason List. Selected by the Wooden Award National Advisory Board, the midseason list is made up of 25 student-athletes, who - based on their performances in November, December and the beginning of January - are the frontrunners for college basketball's most prestigious honor.
• Jones III is joined on the list by two other Big 12 representatives - Missouri's Marcus Denmon and Kansas' Thomas Robinson.
• All collegiate basketball players, including transfers, freshmen and medical redshirts, are eligible for the midseason list. In addition, all players will be evaluated and considered for the official voting ballot released in March. The John R. Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced the week of the Elite Eight round of the 2012 NCAA tournament, making it unique among college postseason awards because it takes into account performance in the postseason.
• The 36th annual Wooden Award Gala, will take place on Fri., April 6, 2012, and will honor winners, All Americans and the Legends of Coaching winner Geno Auriemma of Connecticut. The John R. Wooden Award winner will be announced the weekend of the Final Four in New Orleans, La.
DREW PARTICIPATING IN INFINITI COACHES' CHARITY CHALLENGE
• Scott Drew is one of 48 college basketball head coaches participating in the Infiniti Coaches' Charity Challenge. Drew, in his ninth season at Baylor, has chosen The Jimmy V Foundation ® for Cancer Research as his designated charity for the competition.
• As part of its ongoing corporate partnership with the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the NCAA and ESPN, Infiniti expanded the program from 14 coaches last season to 48 of the nation's top NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches this year with Infiniti's total contribution surpassing $300,000.
• Fans participation will determine the winner over an eight-week period beginning January 18 by registering and voting on a custom microsite, www.ESPN.com/Infiniti. For the first six weeks, four brackets of 12 coaches will be paired against each other, with the winners from each group moving onto the next round in week seven and the final round in week eight. Fans can vote for up to four coaches per day. The winning coach will be announced March 9, 2012.
• The winning coach's designated charity will receive a $100,000 donation from Infiniti; all 48 coaches' charities are guaranteed at least $5,000 from Infiniti.
HE DOESN'T ACT LIKE A FRESHMAN
• Freshman F Quincy Miller is majoring in pre-med and wants to be an anesthesiologist once his basketball career is complete. The charismatic and energetic freshman has also been a mature piece to Baylor's on-court success, too.
• Miller has started 16 games and is one of five players averaging 10+ points per game. Miller's 12.0 points-per-game average ranks fourth on the team, while his 5.1 rebounds-per-game rank third.
#DOWNTOWNCANADIAN
• Sophomore G Brady Heslip has made at least one 3FG in 17 of 18 games this season and owned a streak of 13 consecutive games with at least 1 trey until being held scoreless Jan. 2 vs. Texas €ˆA&M. Heslip is knocking down an impressive 47.7 percent from beyond the arc (51-for-107). In fact, 51 of the Ontario native's 59 FGs this season have been from 3-point range.
• Heslip has quickly established himself as one of the nation's best 3-point shooters. He is tied for the Big 12 lead with 2.83 3FGs made per game and ranks 3rd in 3FG percentage (47.7).
