Baylor basketball will begin their quadrennial foreign tour trip on Thursday in Italy. The Bears will play four games in nine days against Italian teams.
Baylor announced 11 Bears will make the trip. Due to visa issues, Flo Thamba and Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatcoua will not be able to go to Italy. Both will be on the team this season. Tchatcoua will sit out as a transfer from UNLV.
Tristan Clark will play in two games. He’s recovering from knee surgery that caused him to miss almost all of Baylor’s games during conference play. The junior big man was Andy Katz’s preseason selection for the Karl Malone Award, which is given to the nation’s best power forward.