Baylor Men's Basketball to Host Seton Hall in the Big East-Big 12 Battle
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's basketball will host Seton Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at the Ferrell Center as part of the 2023 Big East-Big 12 Battle, with tipoff time and television network to be determined.
December will mark the first meeting between these two programs, although they were scheduled to meet in November of 2020 before COVID issues within the Baylor program forced the cancellation of that contest.
The Pirates are coming off a 17-16 season, earning a spot in the NIT, where they lost in the opening round to Colorado. The Bears are coming off a fourth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance, becoming one of just four teams in the nation to win at least one game in each of the last four tournaments.
Despite two losses against them last season, Baylor will enter the battle with a 13-3 record against Big East teams under head coach Scott Drew.
The Bears are a perfect 5-0 at home against Big East teams, 8-1 in neutral-site games and 0-2 on the road during the Drew era. BU will be looking for a win over an eighth-different Big East squad, already with wins against Xavier (3-1), Creighton (2-1), Providence (2-0), Villanova (3-0), St. John's (1-0), Georgetown (1-0) and Butler (1-0).
BU won its inaugural Big East-Big 12 Battle matchup when the No. 11-ranked Bears hosted No. 19 Butler at the Ferrell Center on Dec. 10, 2019. Baylor led the game wire-to-wire, and Mark Vital had a block in the final seconds to seal a 53-52 victory.
Baylor is 13-4 all-time in conference challenges, the best record of any Big 12 team. The Bears hold the best record of any team at 8-2 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge, a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series and a 2-1 record in the Big East-Big 12 Battle.
2023 BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle Schedule
- November 30 - Texas Tech at Butler
- November 30 - Creighton at Oklahoma State
- December 1 - Iowa State at DePaul
- December 1 - Houston at Xavier
- December 1 - Connecticut at Kansas
- December 1 - St John's at West Virginia
- December 2 - TCU at Georgetown
- December 5 - Texas at Marquette
- December 5 - Providence at Oklahoma
- December 5 - Villanova at Kansas State
- December 5 - Seton Hall at Baylor