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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1/2 BAYLOR BEARS (16-1, 6-0)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Waco, Texas <br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach: </span></strong><dfn><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378">Scott Drew</a></span></dfn> (Butler, 1993)<br>
<a href="https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball">Roster</a> | <a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats">Stats</a> | <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/documents/2020/1/23/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_18_at_Florida.pdf" target="_blank">Game
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">BAYLOR</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(16-1, 6-0) at </span></strong><b>FLORIDA (12-6, 4-2)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jan. 25, 2020 • 7 p.m. CT</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gainesville, Fla. • O'Connell Center (10,133)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">WATCH: ESPN and the ESPN App</span></strong><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Talent:</span></em> <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bob Wischusen<span style="background:white"> (pxp), Dick Vitale (analyst), </span>Kris Budden<span style="background:white"> (reporter)</span></span></em><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">LISTEN:</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Baylor-IMG College | ESPN Central Texas</span></strong><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Talent: <a href="https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/john-morris/52">John Morris</a> (pxp), Pat Nunley (analyst)</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RV/RV FLORIDA (12-6, 4-2)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Gainesville, Fla.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach:</span></strong> Mike White (Ole Miss, 1999) <br>
<a href="https://floridagators.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster">Roster</a> | <a href="https://floridagators.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats">Stats</a> | <u><a href="https://baylorbears.com/documents/2020/1/23/2020_01_25_Baylor_SEC_B12.pdf?id=15358"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">Game
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">STORY LINES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• No. 1 Baylor carries a 15-game winning streak into its Big 12/SEC Challenge game at Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Saturday is the 3rd series meeting – BU won in San Diego in 1981 and UF won in Gainesville in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 5-1 Big 12/SEC Challenge record is the best by any team in either league.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 9-2 record in conference challenge games is best in the Big 12 (5-1 SEC, 3-1 Pac-12, 1-0 Big East).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 10-5 against Southeastern Conference teams since the 2012-13 season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is No. 1 in the most recent AP Top 25 and has moved up in the rankings in 9 consecutive weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is the nation's No. 1-ranked team for the second time in program history – No. 1 on Jan. 9, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's streak of 12 consecutive AP polls ranked is tied for 5th-longest in program history (all since 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• With a win, Baylor can tie the best 18-game start in program history (17-1 in 2011-12 and 2016-17).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 15-game winning streak is tied for the 2nd-longest in program history (17 in 2011-12 and 15 in 2016-17) and is the nation's 2nd-longest active streak behind San Diego State (20).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is the nation's only program with 5 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams this season (5-0).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor ranks 6th nationally in scoring defense (58.5) and 14th nationally in scoring margin (+14.2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is coming off a 61-57 win over Oklahoma in the program's first-ever home game as a No. 1 team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has trailed for only 12% of game time over its last 11 games (52:52 of 440:00), but more than half of that time (30:13) came in Saturday's comeback from 12 down to win at Oklahoma State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 10 of 17 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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 16 of 17 opponents below 70 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has held 4 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, matching the program record for a season (4 in 2013 & 2017). Entering 2020, BU held teams to 55 or fewer 23 times in the Big 12's first 23 seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU and KU are 3-0 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 4-20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is No. 1 in the NET rankings with wins vs. No. 3 (road), No. 9, No. 11, No. 16 and No. 33 (road).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 73-7 this year and all four are top-12 ranked (No. 1 MBB, No. 1 WBB, No. 3 VB, No. 12 FB).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (332-210).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is playing its 229th 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 226 of 408 games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• This is the 7th straight year BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 6 this year).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is the only team with 2 players on the Naismith Defensive POY Midseason Team (Vital & Mitchell).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 1 of 6 Power-5 programs to win 18+ games in each of the last 12 seasons since 2008, joining Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State and North Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has advanced to the postseason in 8 straight seasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 46-11 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 4 seasons since 2016-17.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 52-5 in regular-season non-conference games against unranked teams since December
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">QUICK HITS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 5-1 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 9-2 in conference
challenges. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 42-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (12-1 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (160-20).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 104-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (16-1 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 207-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 207 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (251).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 298-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Eight of Baylor's nine starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (14 of last 15 seasons).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has defeated 8 top-10 teams in the last 4 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 20+ games in 10 of the last 12 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears are one of 11 programs nationally (1 of 6 in Power-5) to win 18+ games in every year since 2008.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 920 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). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SERIES HISTORY <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor and Florida have split the only two meetings between the two programs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU won 72-71 in the Cabrillo Classic consolation game on Dec. 30, 1981, in San Diego.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• No. 22-ranked Florida won 81-60 in Gainesville in the 2018 Big 12/SEC Challenge on Jan. 27, 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BIG 12'S MOST WINS IN CONFERENCE CHALLENGES
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 9-2 in conference challenges – 5-1 in Big 12/SEC Challenge, 3-1 in Big 12/Pac-10, 1-0 in Big 12/Big East.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 5-1 Big 12/SEC Challenge record includes wins over Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Ole Miss and Alabama.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 5-1 record is the best record by any team in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech are all 4-2, while K-State, Texas and Iowa State are 3-3 and West Virginia
is 1-5. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 9-2 record in conference challenges is best in the Big 12, followed by Oklahoma State at 7-4, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa State at 6-5, K-State and Texas Tech at 5-6, TCU at 4-3 and West Virginia
at 1-6. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BEST RECORD IN BIG 12/SEC CHALLENGE
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 5-1 record in the Big 12/SEC Challenge is the best of any team in either league.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor defeated No. 3 Kentucky, 67-62, at Cowboys Stadium in the inaugural challenge on Dec. 6, 2013.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor improved to 2-0 in the challenge with a 66-63 win at Vanderbilt on Dec. 3, 2014.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears knocked off Georgia, 83-73, in their first home game in the challenge on Jan. 30, 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor rallied from 15 points down to win at Ole Miss, 78-75, on Jan. 28, 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears' lone loss came on the road at No. 20 Florida, 81-60, on Jan. 27, 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor got back in the win column with a 73-68 victory over Alabama in Waco on Jan. 26, 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">STRONG RECORD AGAINST SEC TEAMS
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 10-5 against Southeastern Conference teams since the 2012-13 season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears have wins at Kentucky, at Vanderbilt, at South Carolina, and at Ole Miss, as well as a neutral-site win against Kentucky and home wins against Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas A&M and
Alabama. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's only losses against SEC opponents in the last eight seasons were at No. 24 Texas A&M in December 2015, vs. South Carolina in the 2017 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, at No. 20 Florida in the 2018 Big 12/SEC
Challenge, vs. Mississippi State in the 2018 NIT Second Round and vs. Ole Miss in the 2018 Emerald Coast Classic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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