Bears seak Big 12 record streak against Oklahoma

• No. 1 Baylor carries a Big 12 and school-record 22-game winning streak into Tuesday's game at OU.

• Baylor's 22-game streak is tied with Kansas (1996-97) for longest in the Big 12's 24-year history.

• Baylor's 12 conference wins are tied for most in program history (12-6 in 2012 & 12-6 in 2017).

• BU's 12-game Big 12 streak is the 3rd-longest conference-only winning streak in league history.

• BU's 12-0 start to Big 12 play is the Bears' best mark thru 12 conference games in program history.

• BU's 12-game conference winning streak is the longest in school history (previously 11 in 1946 SWC).

• Tuesday is the 64th series meeting. BU trails 18-45, but the Bears are 13-10 vs. OU since 2010.

• BU is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. BU moved up in the poll 9 straight weeks until reaching No. 1 on Jan. 20.

• BU's 5 straight weeks as the AP No. 1 team ties the nation's longest streak since 2015 (Kentucky) and is the longest by a team from the state of Texas since Houston was No. 1 for the final 8 weeks of 1968.

• Baylor has won 20+ games for the 11th time in the last 13 years. The Bears reached the 20-win mark only 3 times in 101 seasons prior to 2008. BU is averaging 24 wins per season since 2008.

• BU's 23-1 is its best 24-game start in program history. BU's best 25-game start is 22-3 in 2017.

• Baylor's 22-game winning streak is the nation's 2nd-longest behind SDSU (26).

• BU is 8-0 in road games, the 2nd-longest road winning streak in program history – 12 in 1945-46.

• Baylor (6-0) is the nation's only teams with 6 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams.

• Baylor has gone 29-32 against ranked teams over the last 6 seasons since 2014-15.

• Baylor ranks 5th nationally in scoring defense (58.3) and 9th nationally in scoring margin (+13.1).

• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 5th nationally (.424) and effective FG% defense ranks 6th (.436).

• BU is coming off a 70-59 win over No. 14 West Virginia, its 6th win this season vs. a ranked team.

• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 15 of 24 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.

• Baylor has held 5 high-major opponents to their season-low scoring totals – Arizona (58), Butler (52), Texas (44), Texas Tech (52) and Kansas (55). BU has held 22 of 24 opponents below 70 points.

• BU has held 7 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, the program record for most in a single season.

• BU is No. 2 in the NET with 6 top-25 NET wins: No. 4 (road), No. 8, No. 10, No. 19, No. 20 (road), No. 21.

• BU is the only team with 2 players on the Naismith Defensive POY Midseason Team (Vital & Mitchell).

• BU and KU are both 6-0 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league is a combined 8-40.

• BU also has the nation's 3rd-longest road winning streak at 8 straight (Gonzaga-17, SDSU-10).

• Baylor is 40-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (50-27).

• BU has trailed for only 9.6% of game time over 18 total games since December (69:13 of 720:00).

• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 87-7 this year and all four are top-12 ranked (No. 1 MBB, No. 1 WBB, No. 3 VB, No. 12 FB).

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (339-210).

• Baylor is playing its 236th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since 2008-09, BU has been ranked in 233 of 415 games.

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