No. 1 Baylor MBB Hosts Showdown vs. No. 3 Kansas

[Kaye, David]

Complete game notes attached.


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1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (24-1, 13-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> (Butler, 1993)
Roster<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball> | Stats<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2020/2/20/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_26_KANSAS.pdf>
BAYLOR (24-1, 13-0) vs. KANSAS (23-3, 12-1)
Feb. 22, 2020 • 11 a.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)
LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com
WATCH: ESPN and the ESPN App
Talent: Dan Shulman (pxp), Jay Bilas (analyst), Holly Rowe (reporter)
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Talent: John Morris<https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/john-morris/52> (pxp), Pat Nunley (analyst)
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3/3 KANSAS (23-3, 12-1)
Location: Lawrence, Kan.
Head Coach: Bill Self (Oklahoma State, 1985)
Roster<https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/> | Stats<https://kuathletics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/201920-MBB-SeasonBook2.17.20.pdf>
STORY LINES
• No. 1 Baylor carries a Big 12-record 23-game winning streak into Saturday's game vs. No. 3 Kansas.
• Baylor's 23-game streak topped Kansas (22 in 1996-97) for longest in the Big 12's 24-year history.
• Baylor's 13 conference wins are the most in program history (beating 12-6 in 2012 & 12-6 in 2017).
• BU's 13-game Big 12 streak is tied for the 2nd-longest conference-only winning streak in league history.
• BU's 13-0 start to Big 12 play is the Bears' best mark thru 13 conference games in program history.
• BU's 13-game conference winning streak is the longest in school history (previously 11 in 1946 SWC).
• Baylor won for the first time at Kansas on Jan. 11, snapping a 17-game losing streak in Lawrence.
• 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 is 12-0 at home this season and hasn't trailed by more than 2 points in any home game.
• Baylor has trailed for only 2.6% of game time over 12 home games this season (12:38 of 480:00).
• BU's 24-1 is its best 25-game mark in program history. BU's best 26-game start is 22-4 in 2012 & 2017.
• Baylor's 23-game winning streak is the nation's 2nd-longest behind San Diego State (26).
• Baylor (6-0) is the nation's only teams with 6 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams.
• Baylor has defeated 8 top-10 teams in the last 4 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco.
• Baylor has gone 29-32 against ranked teams over the last 6 seasons since 2014-15.
• Baylor ranks 4th nationally in scoring defense (58.2) and 10th nationally in scoring margin (+13.0).
• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 7th nationally (.425) and effective FG% defense ranks 6th (.435).
• BU is coming off a 65-54 win at Oklahoma, notching a 7th Big 12 road win for the first time.
• BU has trailed for only 9.7% of game time over 19 total games since December (74:05 of 760:00).
• Baylor has trailed in the 2nd half only once since December (12-pt comeback win at Oklahoma State).
• BU has held 8 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-20 NET wins: No. 4 (road), No. 8, No. 9, No. 15, No. 18 (road), No. 19.
• Baylor (10-0) and Kansas (10-3) are the nation's only teams with 10 Quadrant 1 wins.
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 15 of 25 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 23 of 25 opponents below 70 points.
• BU is the only team with 2 players on the Naismith Defensive POY Midseason Team (Vital & Mitchell).
• BU and KU are a combined 13-0 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league is a combined 8-44.
• BU also has the nation's 3rd-longest road winning streak at 9 straight (Gonzaga-17, SDSU-10).
• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 89-7 this year and all four are top-12 ranked (No. 1 MBB, No. 1 WBB, No. 3 VB, No. 12 FB).
• Baylor is playing its 237th 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 234 of 416 games.
• This is the 7th straight year BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 5 this year).

QUICK HITS
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 11 of the last 13 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
• Baylor is 50-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (20-1 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (168-20).
• BU is 112-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (24-1 this season).
• Baylor is 215-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 215 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (259).
• Baylor is 306-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• BU returned 8 letterwinners from last season, including 5 players who made at least 7 starts – Mark Vital (34), Jared Butler (21), Tristan Clark (14), Freddie Gillespie (11) and Devonte Bandoo (7).
• Baylor returned 9 players with at least 26 games of Division I experience, including a pair of transfers who are now starters after sitting out last season – Davion Mitchell and MaCio Teague.
• Eight of Baylor's 14 players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Five after transferring to BU – Flagler, Gillespie, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and three as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner and Vital.
• Eight of Baylor's nine starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (14 of last 15 seasons).
• The Bears are one of 11 programs nationally (1 of 6 in Power-5) to win 18+ games in every year since 2008.
• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 928 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 29 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).
• BU is 6-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league. Combined with a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Series and 1-0 in the Big 12/Big East Battle, Baylor is 10-2 in conference challenges.
• Baylor has won 6 tournament titles under Drew (2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic and 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational).

COLLEGE GAMEDAY COMES TO WACO
• Baylor is hosting College Gameday in Waco for the 5th time overall and the 2nd time for basketball.
• The show first came to Waco for basketball in 2011, then came for football in 2014, 2015 and 2019.
• Baylor is the first school since Michigan State in 2015-16 to host College Gameday for football and basketball in the same academic year. This marks the 9th time in the show's history a school has hosted both in the same year.

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday is the 39th all-time meeting between Baylor and Kansas. BU is 6-32 against the Jayhawks.
• Baylor lost both games against Kansas last year, but the Bears are 2-2 in their last 4 games vs. Kansas.
• Baylor's wins in the series came in 2001 vs. No. 6 Kansas (Waco), in 2009 vs. No. 14 Kansas (Oklahoma City), in 2012 vs. No. 3 (Kansas City), in 2013 vs. No. 4 Kansas (Waco), in 2018 vs. No. 10 Kansas (Waco) and in 2020 at No. 3 Kansas (Lawrence).
• The Bears are 3-13 all-time against Kansas in Waco, with wins in 2001, 2013 and 2018.

LAST TIME VS. KANSAS
• Baylor broke through for its first win at Kansas (in its 18th attempt) and its first road win against a top-5 team (in its 23rd attempt) by knocking off No. 3 Kansas, 67-55, at Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 11.
• The 55 points scored by Kansas matched its fewest in a home game since 2000.
• BU trailed 20-15 with 8 minutes left in the first half, then closed the half on a 22-4 run to take a 37-24 lead to the break. Kansas would cut the deficit to 5 points with 13 minutes left, but couldn't get any closer.
• Jared Butler scored 10 straight BU points in the final 8 minutes, and BU led by double-digits the rest of the way.

TOP-10 WINS IN WACO
• Baylor is 6-3 against top-10 ranked teams in Waco over the last 4 seasons. BU's top-10 home wins since 2016-17 include: No. 4 Oregon (Nov. 15, 2016), No. 7 Xavier (Dec. 3, 2016), No. 10 West Virginia (Feb. 27, 2017), No. 10 Kansas (Feb. 10, 2018), No. 7 Texas Tech (Feb. 17, 2018) and No. 8 Texas Tech (Jan. 19, 2019).

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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