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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (24-2, 13-1)</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/2020/2/24/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_27_KANSAS_STATE.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">(19-1, 8-0) at </span></strong><b>KANSAS STATE (9-12, 2-6)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feb. 25, 2020 • 7 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">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>NR/NR KANSAS STATE (9-18, 2-12)</b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Manhattan, Kan.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head Coach:</span></strong> Bruce Weber (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978) <br>
<a href="https://www.kstatesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster">Roster</a> | <a href="https://www.kstatesports.com/documents/2020/2/1/KS_Season_Stats.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. 2 Baylor looks to rebound from its first Big 12 loss when it hosts Kansas State at 7 p.m. Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor' Big 12-record 23-game winning streak was snapped in a 64-61 loss to No. 3 Kansas on Saturday.<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 13-1 start to Big 12 play is the Bears' best mark thru 14 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 was 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 73-67 at K-State when the teams met in Manhattan on Feb. 3. The Bears never jumped out to a 22-6 lead in the first 8 minutes and never trailed in the game. Jared Butler had 20 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU looks to sweep K-State for the 3rd time in 9 years of Big 12 round-robin play (sweeps in 2014 & 2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor fell to No. 2 in this week's AP Top 25, snapping a streak of 5 straight weeks at No. 1.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Five straight weeks at No. 1 tied the nation's longest streak since Kentucky in 2014-15.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has been top-2 ranked for 7 consecutive weeks after being top-2 for 3 total weeks prior to 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 8 straight weeks top-5 ranked (previously 6 straight in 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's streak of 17 consecutive AP polls ranked is tied for 3rd-longest in program history (all since 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 12-1 at home this season and has trailed by more than 2 points in only one home game (Kansas).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 24-2 is its best 26-game mark in program history. BU's best 27-game start is 22-5 in 2012 & 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor (6-1) has the nation's best record vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams (min. 3 games).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Both of Baylor's losses this season have been by 3 points (Nov. 8 vs. Washington, Feb. 22 vs. Kansas).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has gone 29-33 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 3rd nationally in scoring defense (58.4) and 14th nationally in scoring margin (+12.4).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 10th nationally (.432) and effective FG% defense ranks 8th (.439).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has trailed for only 13.7% of game time over 20 total games since December (109:51 of 800:00).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has trailed in the 2nd half only twice since December 1 (win at Oklahoma State, loss vs. Kansas).<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. 1 (road), No. 9, No. 10, No. 15, No. 16 (road), No. 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor (10-1), Kansas (11-3) and Seton Hall (10-5) 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 26 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 both 7-0 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league is a combined 10-46.<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 90-8 this year and all four are top-12 ranked (No. 2 MBB, No. 2 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 238th 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 235 of 417 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. 7 this year).<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).
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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 215-95 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 (260).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 306-142 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 929 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">SEVEN STRAIGHT WEEKS TOP-2 RANKED
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is No. 2 in this week's AP Top 25, snapping a streak of 5 straight weeks at the nation's No. 1 team.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has been top-2 ranked in 7 consecutive polls. Prior to 2020, BU was top-2 in 3 total polls all-time (all in 2017).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 5-week streak at No. 1 was the longest since Kentucky in 2015 and longest by a Texas team since 1968.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's streak of 17 consecutive weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is tied for the 3rd-longest streak in program history – 25 consecutive polls in 2017-18, 22 in 2012-13, 17 in 2010-11, 17 in 2019-20.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor was ranked No. 16 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll, which tied the 2nd-highest preseason ranking in BU history.
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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">• Tuesday is the 43rd all-time series meeting. K-State leads the series 23-19, but it's tied 8-8 in Waco.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's win at K-State on Feb. 3 snapped the Wildcats' 6-game series winning streak.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears are 7-7 vs. Kansas State since 2014, but BU has lost 3 straight to K-State in Waco.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Since Big 12 double round-robin play began in 2012, BU has swept the season series twice (2014, 2016) and K-State has swept the season series three times (2013, 2018, 2019). The teams split in 2012, 2015
and 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Wildcats won 70-63 in Waco (Feb. 9) and 66-60 in Manhattan (March 2) last season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LAST TIME VS. KANSAS STATE <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor ran out to a 22-6 lead in the first 8 minutes and led wire-to-wire in a 73-67 win at K-State on Feb. 3.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears battled foul trouble in the first half with three starters picking up 2 fouls apiece, but Jared Butler, MaCio Teague and Davion Mitchell combined for 48 points on 16-of-28 (57%) from the floor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Butler had his 5th 20-point game of the season as the Bears snapped a 6-game losing streak to Kansas State.<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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