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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (23-1, 12-0)</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/2020/2/17/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_25_at_Oklahoma.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">(23-1, 12-0) at OKLAHOMA</span></strong><b> (16-9, 6-6)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feb. 18, 2020 • 8 p.m. CT</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Norman, Okla. • Lloyd Noble Center (11,528)</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">Jon Sciambi (pxp), Fran Fraschilla (analyst)</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 OKLAHOMA (<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">16-9, 6-6</span></strong>)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Norman, Okla.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach:</span></strong> Lon Kruger (Kansas State, 1975)<br>
<a href="https://soonersports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster?path=mbball">Roster</a> | <a href="https://soonersports.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats?path=mbball">Stats</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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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 Big 12 and school-record 22-game winning streak into Tuesday's game at OU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 22-game streak is tied with Kansas (1996-97) for longest in the Big 12's 24-year history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 12 conference wins are tied for most in program history (12-6 in 2012 & 12-6 in 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 12-game Big 12 streak is 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">• BU's 12-0 start to Big 12 play is the Bears' best mark thru 12 conference games in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 12-game conference winning streak is the longest in school history (previously 11 in 1946 SWC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Tuesday is the 64th series meeting. BU trails 18-45, but the Bears are 13-10 vs. OU since 2010.<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 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.<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 23-1 is its best 24-game start in program history. BU's best 25-game start is 22-3 in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 22-game winning streak is the nation's 2nd-longest behind SDSU (26).
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<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 (6-0) is the nation's only teams with 6 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has gone 29-32 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 9th nationally in scoring margin (+13.1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 5th nationally (.424) and effective FG% defense ranks 6th (.436).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is coming off a 70-59 win over No. 14 West Virginia, its 6th win this season vs. a ranked team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 15 of 24 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 22 of 24 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is No. 2 in the NET with 6 top-25 NET wins: No. 4 (road), No. 8, No. 10, No. 19, No. 20 (road), No. 21.<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 8-40.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU also has the nation's 3rd-longest road winning streak at 8 straight (Gonzaga-17, SDSU-10).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 40-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (50-27).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has trailed for only 9.6% of game time over 18 total games since December (69:13 of 720:00).<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 87-7 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 (339-210).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is playing its 236th 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 233 of 415 games.<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">• 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).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 49-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (19-1 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 (167-20).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 111-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (23-1 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 214-94 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 214 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (258).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 305-141 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">• 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 927 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).
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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 trails 18-45 in the all-time series, including a 6-23 mark in Norman and a 13-22 record in the Drew era.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 6 of its last 7 games vs. Oklahoma, including sweeping the season series in 2017 and 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU looks to win 5 straight vs. OU for the first time in the series, which has been played twice annually since 1997.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 13-10 against OU since snapping a 30-game losing streak in the series in 2010.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has swept the season series 4 times in the last 10 years (2010, 2012, 2017, 2019), while OU has swept the season series three times in the last 10 years (2013, 2014, 2016). The teams split in 2011,
2015 and 2018. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LAST TIME VS. OKLAHOMA <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor took an 11-point halftime lead and led for the final 31 minutes in a 61-57 win over Oklahoma on Jan. 20.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears led 59-51 with 1:30 remaining, but OU hit consecutive 3-pointers to cut it to 59-57 with 42 seconds remaining. After a Baylor turnover, OU missed a potential go-ahead 3-pointer with 6 seconds left.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU shot 35% from the field (22-63), but the Bears are now 5-0 when shooting 35% or worse. BU has wins vs. Arizona (.304), Butler (.350), Texas (.313), Oklahoma (.349) and at Texas (.340) when shooting .350
or lower. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Freddie Gillespie notched his 7th double-double of the season with 12 points and a career-high 15 rebounds.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LONGEST WINNING STREAK IN BIG 12 HISTORY
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 22-game winning streak is tied for the longest by any team in the Big 12 Conference's 24-year history, matching Kansas' 22-game streak to start the 1996-97 season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 12-game Big 12 winning streak is the 3rd-longest conference-only streak in league history, trailing only Kansas' 16-0 mark in 2002 and Kansas' 13-0 start in 2010.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• With a win vs. OU, Baylor would reach 13 conference wins for the first time in program history. This year is the 3rd time Baylor has posted 12 conference wins (12-6 in 2012, 12-6 in 2017, 12-0 in 2020).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SCHOOL-RECORD 22-GAME WINNING STREAK
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 22-game winning streak is the longest winning streak in program history (previously 17 in 2011-12).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The current 22-game streak includes 6 wins vs. ranked opponents, 8 road games and 3 neutral-site games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has won 12 straight Big 12 games for first time and is off to a 12-0 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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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