Friday, October 10
Waco, Texas
4 pm
Baylor
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Grand Canyon (EXH)
MBB Welcomes Fans to Home Exhibition Against Grand Canyon
10/9/2025 12:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BU to face off against GCU in open exhibition at 4 p.m. CT on Friday
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BAYLOR BEARS (0-0, 0-0 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
GCU (0-0, 0-0 Mountain West) vs. BAYLOR (0-0, 0-0 Big 12) Oct. 10, 2025 • 4:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Foster Pavilion (7,500) LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast LISTEN: Baylor Sports Media Network Talent: John Morris (PBP), Pat Nunley (Analyst) Baylor Social Media:    |
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GRAND CANYON LOPES (0-0, 0-0 MW) Location: Phoenix, Ariz. Conference/Affiliation: Mountain West Head Coach: Bryce Drew (Valparaiso, 1998) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's basketball is set for a preseason, exhibition showdown with Grand Canyon at Foster Pavilion on Friday, Oct. 10, at 4 p.m. CT.
The matchup will be open-to-the-public and free admission for fans to get a first look at the 2025-26 roster. Seats inside Foster Pavilion, with the exception of the Courtside, Loft and Sideline Club premium areas, will be general admission on a first come, first served basis. Premium season ticket holders will receive reserved tickets in their accounts 48 hours before tipoff, while non-premium season ticket holders will have general admission tickets loaded into their accounts.
There will be no video stream of the exhibition, but fans are encouraged to tune in to the Voice of the Bears, John Morris, and Pat Nunley on Baylor Sports Media Network.
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• Baylor is one of nine teams in the country to be returning zero players for to its 2025-26 roster. BU, along with Arkansas State, Cleveland State, Memphis, Miami, Murray State, New Mexico, North Texas and Sacramento State, has completely flipped its roster, bringing in 10 transfers from the portal. This is the first time in program history Baylor has had zero returning players, losing four out of eligibility, nine to the transfer portal and one to the NBA.
• Baylor head coach Scott Drew is a part of the second-winningest college basketball family. Entering the 2025-26 season, Scott, his brother Bryce (GCU) and their Dad Homer combined for 1,408 wins, 225 wins behind the Iba Family (1,633 wins) for most wins among father/son combinations in division I college basketball.
• Drew is one of eight coaches in NCAA history, and the only one since 1990, to have won an NCAA Championship and an NIT Championship with the same school. He is one of two active coaches (John Calapari) to have won both, but the only active coach to have won both at the same school.
• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 13-consecutive postseason appearances. The Bears have gone to 11 NCAA Tournaments and two National Invitation Tournaments since 2012. Baylor has appeared in every postseason since 2012, tied as the nation's fifth-longest active streak. The only schools to appear in all 13 postseasons since 2012 are Baylor (13), Gonzaga (26), Kansas (35), Michigan State (27), Oregon (13), and Saint Mary's (14).
• Baylor welcomes new faces to the 2025-26 squad, aiming to replace their five starters from last year's team, including No. 3 draft pick in VJ Edgecombe. Drew and the Bears have recruited a consensus top-25 class, highlighted by McDonald's All-American, Tounde Yessoufou, Andre Iguodala II, Mayo Soyoye and Maikcol Perez. Additionally, the Bears brought in experienced veteran transfers of Dan Skillings Jr. (Cincinnati), JJ White (Omaha), Obi Agbim (Wyoming), Michael Rataj (Oregon State) and Caden Powell (Rice), as well as Isaac Williams IV (Corpus-Christi), Juslin Bodo Bodo (High Point) and Cameron Carr (Tennessee).
• Over the summer, Baylor represented Team USA in the FISU World University Games, held in Essen, Germany. Through eight days of competition, Baylor faced off against six different opponents with players from across the globe. Advancing all the way to the finals, Team USA finished with a silver medal, going 5-1 overseas. Obi Agbim, who averaged over 20 points in the tournament and scored a high of 30 in the final against Brazil, was named Most Valuable Player and Best Guard. Another Bear who earned recognition was Michael Rataj, who competed for Team Germany. Rataj was named Best Forward of the tournament, averaging nearly 17 points per game and seven rebounds.
• Ron Sanchez was hired as an associate head coach on May 30, 2025. The 29-year coaching veteran joins Drew's staff after serving the last two seasons with the Virginia Cavaliers, most recently as interim head coach for the 2024-25 season. Sanchez is the third assistant on Drew's staff with head-coaching experience, bringing another unique perspective to the bench.
• The Big 12 Freshman of the Year, VJ Edgecombe, was taken as the third pick in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft, becoming Baylor's highest draft pick in program history. Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers, Edgecombe became the fifth player from BU to earn a top-10 pick, the previous highest being Ekpe Udoh at No. 6 overall in 2010 by the Golden State Warriors. The Bears are the only program in the country with top-19 picks in each of the last five drafts.
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