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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (18-1, 7-0)</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/2020/1/31/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_20_TCU.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">(18-1, 7-0) vs. TCU (13-7, 4-3)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feb. 1, 2020 • 3 p.m. CT</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)</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: ESPN2 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">Chuckie Kempf<span style="background:white"> (pxp), Chris
</span>Spatola<span style="background:white"> (analyst)</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>NR/NR TCU (13-7, 4-3)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Fort Worth, Texas<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach:</span></strong> Jamie Dixon (TCU, 1987) <br>
<a href="https://gofrogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster">Roster</a> | <a href="https://gofrogs.com/documents/2019/12/27/Combined_Stats21.pdf">Stats</a> | <b><u><a href="https://gofrogs.com/documents/2020/1/31/21_at_Baylor_2.pdf"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;font-weight:normal">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 school-record-tying 17-game winning streak into Saturday's game vs. TCU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is celebrating its 175th birthday. BU was chartered by the Republic of Texas on Feb. 1, 1845.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is seeking its first 8-game conference winning streak since starting 10-0 in the 1948 SWC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU recorded its first undefeated month of January (8-0) since going 6-0 in January 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Saturday is the 186th series meeting – BU leads 101-84, including a 55-39 mark in Waco.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 12-3 against TCU as Big 12 rivals. The Bears won the first 11 Big 12 series meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. BU moved up in the poll 9 straight weeks until reaching No. 1 on Jan. 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor was voted No. 1 in the AP poll for the 3rd time in program history – Jan. 9, 2017 & last 2 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's streak of 13 consecutive AP polls ranked is the 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 20-game start in program history (19-1 in 2016-17).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 17-game winning streak is tied for the longest in program history (17-0 to start 2011-12) and is the nation's 2nd-longest active streak behind San Diego State (22).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 9-0 at Ferrell Center this season and has held every opponent to 63 or fewer points.<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 5th nationally in scoring defense (58.3) and 10th nationally in scoring margin (+14.1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 8th nationally (.422) and effective FG% defense ranks 14th (.436).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is coming off a 67-53 win at Iowa State, holding ISU to its fewest points in a Big 12 home game since Feb. 21, 2009. The Bears held ISU to 52 points in Waco, its fewest away from home since 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has trailed for only 13% of game time over its last 13 games (67:11 of 520:00), but nearly half of that time (30:13) came in a comeback from 12 down to win at Oklahoma State on Jan. 18.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 11 of 19 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 18 of 19 opponents below 70 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has held 5 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, breaking the program record for most in a single season. 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 is No. 2 in the NET rankings with 4 top-12 NET wins: vs. No. 4 (road), No. 8, No. 11, No. 12.<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">• BU and KU are 4-0 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 5-22.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 38-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (49-27).<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 77-7 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 (334-210).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is playing its 231st 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 228 of 410 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. 4 this year).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 44-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (14-1 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 (162-20).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 106-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (18-1 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 209-94 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 209 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (253).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 300-141 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 922 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">• Saturday is the 186th all-time series meeting and the 16th as Big 12 Conference members.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor leads the series 101-83, including a 55-39 mark in Waco and a 12-3 record in the Drew era.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Since TCU joined the Big 12, Baylor is 12-3 in the series with an average scoring margin of +14.1 points per game.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears' 6 Big 12 home wins over TCU have been by at least 11 points and by an average of 21.0 points.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The lone TCU win in Waco since joining the Big 12 came in overtime two years ago, 81-78, on Jan. 2, 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU beat TCU in Waco by 11 in 2013, by 26 in 2014, by 20 in 2015, by 28 in 2016, by 18 in 2017 and by 26 in 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LAST TIME VS. TCU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Makai Mason posted the 7th 40-point game in program history, as the Bears routed TCU 90-64 on Feb. 2, 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Mason scored 27 points in the 2nd half, including going 8-of-8 from the field (6-of-6 from 3-point range) in the first 7:22 of game time after the break. His 40 points set the Baylor record for points in
a Big 12 game. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Mason finished 9-of-12 from 3-point range, tying the 2nd-most made 3-pointers in program history.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Freddie Gillespie posted then-career-highs of 11 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks in just 17 minutes off the bench.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">WINNING STREAK UP TO 17 STRAIGHT, MATCHING LONGEST IN BU HISTORY
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 17 consecutive games, matching the longest winning streak in program history (17 in 2011-12).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has had 8 double-digit winning streaks in program history – 17 in 2011-12, 17 in 2019-20, 15 in 2016-17, 13 in 1946, 12 in 2000-2001, 11 in 1947-48, 11 in 1996 and 11 in 2013.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The current 17-game streak includes 5 wins vs. ranked opponents, 6 road games and 3 neutral-site games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has won 7 straight Big 12 games in the same year for first time and is off to a 7-0 start in conference play for the first time since starting 10-0 in the 1948 Southwest Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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