Carr's 16 points lead 6 players in double figures, Bears beat Washington 78-69

Cameron Carr deed 3 3-pointers and finished with 16 points to pb six Baylor players scoring successful treble figures and the Bears bushed Washington 78-69

WACO, Texas -- Cameron Carr deed 3 3-pointers and finished with 16 points to pb six Baylor players scoring successful treble figures and the Bears bushed Washington 78-69 connected Sunday night.

Tounde Yessoufou scored 13 points for Baylor (2-0) and Caden Powell added 12 points and 10 rebounds. Dan Skillings Jr. and Isaac Williams scored 12 points apiece and Michael Rataj finished with 11.

Zoom Diallo led Washington (2-1) with 15 points and Quimari Peterson, who made 1 of 9 from 3-point range, scored 11. Hannes Steinbach, a 6-foot-11 freshman, had 10 points and 15 rebounds for his 2nd consecutive double-double.

Rataj converted a three-point play and Carr made a 3-pointer successful a 12-2 tally that made it 25-19 with 7:43 near successful the archetypal fractional and Baylor (1-0) led the remainder of the way.

Wesley Yates III deed a 3-pointer to headdress a 7-2 spurt that trimmed Washington's shortage to 57-53 with 9:48 remaining successful the game, but Yessoufou responded 32 seconds aboriginal with a three-point play to spark a 9-3 tally to propulsion the pb backmost into treble figures astir 2 minutes later. Williams made a layup with 3:37 near that gave the Bears their biggest pb of the crippled astatine 73-62.

The Huskies outrebounded Baylor 42-33 and had a 42-28 vantage successful points successful the paint, but made conscionable 3 of 20 (15%) from 3-point range.

Baylor's is 1 of 3 high-major programs (Miami and Memphis) with zero returning players from the 2024-25 season. The Bears mislaid 4 players to expired eligibility, 9 to the transportation portal and 1 to the NBA.

Washington plays Friday astatine Washington State

Baylor hosts Tarleton State connected Friday

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