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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (24-1, 13-0)</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/2020/2/20/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_26_KANSAS.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">(24-1, 13-0) vs. KANSAS (23-3, 12-1)</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feb. 22, 2020 • 11 a.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: 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">Dan Shulman<span style="background:white"> (pxp), Jay
</span>Bilas<span style="background:white"> (analyst), </span>Holly Rowe (reporter)</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>3/3 KANSAS (23-3, 12-1)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Lawrence, Kan.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach:</span></strong> Bill Self (Oklahoma State, 1985)<br>
<a href="https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/">Roster</a> | <a href="https://kuathletics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/201920-MBB-SeasonBook2.17.20.pdf">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-record 23-game winning streak into Saturday's game vs. No. 3 Kansas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 23-game streak topped Kansas (22 in 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 13 conference wins are the most in program history (beating 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 13-game Big 12 streak is tied for the 2nd-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 13-0 start to Big 12 play is the Bears' best mark thru 13 conference games in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 13-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">• Baylor won for the first time at Kansas on Jan. 11, snapping a 17-game losing streak in Lawrence.<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 is 12-0 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 2.6% of game time over 12 home games this season (12:38 of 480:00).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 23-game winning streak is the nation's 2nd-longest behind San Diego State (26).
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<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 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">• 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 4th nationally in scoring defense (58.2) and 10th nationally in scoring margin (+13.0).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 7th nationally (.425) and effective FG% defense ranks 6th (.435).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is coming off a 65-54 win at Oklahoma, notching a 7th Big 12 road win for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has trailed for only 9.7% of game time over 19 total games since December (74:05 of 760:00).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has trailed in the 2nd half only once since December (12-pt comeback win at Oklahoma State).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has held 8 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-20 NET wins: No. 4 (road), No. 8, No. 9, No. 15, No. 18 (road), No. 19.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor (10-0) and Kansas (10-3) are the nation's only teams with 10 Quadrant 1 wins.<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 25 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 23 of 25 opponents below 70 points.<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 a combined 13-0 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league is a combined 8-44.<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 9 straight (Gonzaga-17, SDSU-10).<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 89-7 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">• 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.<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. 5 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">• 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 50-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (20-1 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 (168-20).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 112-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (24-1 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 215-94 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 215 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (259).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 306-141 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">• 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 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). <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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">COLLEGE GAMEDAY COMES TO WACO
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is hosting College Gameday in Waco for the 5th time overall and the 2nd time for basketball.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The show first came to Waco for basketball in 2011, then came for football in 2014, 2015 and 2019.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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. <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 39th all-time meeting between Baylor and Kansas. BU is 6-32 against the Jayhawks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor lost both games against Kansas last year, but the Bears are 2-2 in their last 4 games vs. Kansas.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears are 3-13 all-time against Kansas in Waco, with wins in 2001, 2013 and 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LAST TIME VS. KANSAS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The 55 points scored by Kansas matched its fewest in a home game since 2000.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Jared Butler scored 10 straight BU points in the final 8 minutes, and BU led by double-digits the rest of the way.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">TOP-10 WINS IN WACO <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• 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).<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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