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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (22-1, 11-0)</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>
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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">(22-1, 11-0) vs. WEST VIRGINIA</span></strong><b> (18-6, 6-5)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feb. 15, 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>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Talent:</span></em> <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Mark Neely (pxp), Lance Blanks (analyst)</span></em><br>
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<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>14/14 WEST VIRGINIA (18-6, 6-5)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Morgantown, W.Va.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach:</span></strong> Bob Huggins (WVU, 1977) <br>
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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 21-game winning streak into Saturday's game vs. No. 14 WVU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 21-game streak is the 2nd-longest in Big 12 history (Kansas won 22 straight in 1997).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 11-game Big 12 streak is tied for the 3rd-longest conference-only winning streak in league history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 11-0 start to Big 12 play is tied for 3rd-best start in league history (16-0 Kansas in 2002, 13-0 Kansas in 2010, 11-0 Texas in 2011, 11-0 Oklahoma in 2009).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 11-game conference winning streak is tied for the longest in school history (11 in 1946 SWC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Saturday is the 18th series meeting, all since 2011. Baylor leads 10-7, including 4-3 in Waco.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The teams have alternated wins in Waco (BU in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019; WVU in 2014, 2016, 2018).<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">• BU's 4 straight weeks as the AP No. 1 team ties Gonzaga for the nation's longest streak this season and is the longest by a team from the state of Texas since Houston was No. 1 for the final 8 weeks of 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 11-0 at home this season and hasn't trailed by more than 2 points in any home game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has trailed for only 2.8% of game time over 11 home games this season (12:38 of 440:00).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 20+ games for the 11th time in the last 13 years. The Bears reached the 20-win mark only 3 times in 101 seasons prior to 2008. BU is averaging 24 wins per season since 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 22-1 is its best 23-game start in program history. BU's best 24-game start is 21-3 in 2012 & 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 21-game winning streak is the nation's 2nd-longest behind SDSU (25).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 8-0 in road games, the 2nd-longest road winning streak in program history – 12 in 1945-46.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor (5-0) and Iowa (5-3) are the nation's only teams with 5 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has gone 28-32 against ranked teams over the last 6 seasons since 2014-15.<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 (+13.2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 8th nationally (.427) and effective FG% defense ranks 10th (.448).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is coming off a 52-45 win at Texas on Monday, holding UT to its fewest points at home since 1983.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 14 of 23 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 21 of 23 opponents below 70 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has held 7 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, the program record for most in a single season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is No. 3 in the NET with 5 top-25 NET wins: No. 4 (road), No. 11, No. 13, No. 17 (road), No. 21 (n).<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 both 6-0 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league is a combined 8-35.<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 85-7 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 (338-210).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is playing its 235th 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 232 of 414 games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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">• 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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 48-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (18-1 this season).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (166-20).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 110-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (22-1 this season).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 213-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 213 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (257).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 304-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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 926 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">• 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 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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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 18th all-time series meeting, all of which have been played since 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• WVU has won six of nine against the Bears after Baylor won seven of the first eight series meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU leads the series 10-7, including a 4-3 mark in Waco. The teams have alternated wins in Waco, with Baylor winning the matchup in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 and West Virginia winning in 2014, 2016 and 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LAST TIME VS. WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU trailed 70-66 with 3 minutes left, but went on a 10-0 run to pull out an 82-75 win over WVU on Feb. 23, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Mario Kegler's 3-pointer with 2:23 left gave Baylor the lead for good, and Jared Butler's 3-point play with 1:21 remaining extended the lead to 75-70. Kegler made 6 straight free throws to close the game.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Kegler had his first double-double with career-highs of 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Mark Vital added his 2nd double-double with 15 points and 14 rebounds. Devonte Bandoo had 22 points in 33 minutes
off the bench.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SECOND-LONGEST WINNING STREAK IN BIG 12 HISTORY
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 21-game winning streak is the 2nd-longest by any team in the Big 12 Conference's 24-year history. The only longer streak was Kansas' 22-game streak to start the 1996-97 season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 11-0 start to Big 12 play is tied for the 3rd-best start by any team in the league's 24-year history (Kansas 16-0 in 2002, Kansas 13-0 in 2010, Texas 11-0 in 2011, Oklahoma 11-0 in 2009, Baylor
11-0 in 2020).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 11-game Big 12 winning streak is tied for the 3rd-longest conference-only streak in league history, trailing only Kansas' 16-game streak in 2002 and Kansas' 13-game streak in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• With a win vs. WVU, Baylor would tie the longest overall winning streak in Big 12 history (22) and stand alone as the 3rd-longest conference-only winning streak (12) in league history.<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">SCHOOL-RECORD 21-GAME WINNING STREAK
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 21-game winning streak is the longest winning streak in program history (previously 17 in 2011-12).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The current 21-game streak includes 5 wins vs. ranked opponents, 8 road games and 3 neutral-site games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has won 11 straight Big 12 games for first time and is off to an 11-0 start in conference play for the first time in program history. Baylor's best previous start to conference play was 10-0 in the 1948
Southwest Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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