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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Complete game notes and extended stats package attached. Media materials available for download here:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://baylorbea.rs/MediaMBB">http://baylorbea.rs/MediaMBB</a><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">BAYLOR (10-0, 3-0) at TCU (9-3, 2-2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jan. 9, 2021 • 2 p.m. CT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fort Worth, Texas • Schollmaier Arena (8,500)<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">LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com<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">WATCH: ESPN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Talent: Dan Shulman (pxp), Fran Fraschilla (analyst)<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">LISTEN: Baylor Sports Network | ESPN Central Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Talent: John Morris (pxp) and Pat Nunley(analyst)<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">2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (10-0, 3-0)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Location: Waco, Texas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)<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">NR/NR TCU HORNED FROGS (9-3, 2-2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Location: Fort Worth, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Head Coach: Jamie Dixon (TCU, 1987)
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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">STORY LINES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• No. 2 Baylor heads to Fort Worth to face TCU at 2 pm CT Saturday on ESPN.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Saturday is the 188th series meeting – BU leads 102-85, including a 41-43 mark in Fort Worth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 13-4 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 5-3 in games at TCU as Big 12 rivals, but TCU has won the last 3 meetings in Fort Worth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 1 of 6 undefeated teams (min. 3 gms) and joins Michigan as the only undefeated Power-5 teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU leads the nation in 3FG% (.436) and scoring margin (+28.8), ranks 4th nationally in assists (20.0/gm), 4th in effective FG% (.597), 4th in offensive rebound pct. (.436), 5th in scoring (91.2), 8th in
turnover margin (+6.8), 9th in steal pct. (13.2), 10th in A-T ratio (1.64) & 10th in 3-pointers made (10.9/gm).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won a school-record 10 consecutive games by double-digits (previous record 8 in 2011-12).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is the nation's only team to win every game by 8+ points this season (min. 4 games played).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU has led by at least 13 points in every game this season and has led by 13+ at halftime in 8 of 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's largest deficit this season is 4 points, and BU has trailed for only 13:22 of 400 minutes (3.3%).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor, Gonzaga and LSU are the only teams to score 75+ points in every game this season (min. 8 gms).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• With a win, BU will start a season 11-0 for the 5th time in program history (1912, 2001, 2012, 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor looks to start 4-0 in Big 12 play for the 5th time in program history (1998, 2008, 2012, 2020).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor needs a win to tie the 6th-longest winning streak in program history at 11-straight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's bench is out-scoring opposing benches 39-18 on average and has scored 33+ points in 9 of 10 games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Four members of the BU bench average 7+ ppg – Flagler (11), Tchatchoua (10), Mayer (10), Cryer (7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Six Bears are averaging at least one made 3-pointer per game and shooting at least 40% from 3-point range: Mayer (48), Flagler (45), Mitchell (45), Cryer (45), Butler (42), Teague (41).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 18th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (352-213).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• With Wednesday's win vs. OU, Drew passed his father Homer's DI wins total (371 in 22 years at Valpo).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is playing its 252nd 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 249 of 431 games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has been top-5 ranked for 18-straight weeks. BU was top-5 for 12 weeks all-time prior to this streak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's streak of 27-straight AP polls ranked is the nation's 5th-longest active streak and longest in BU history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has led by at least 5 points in all 40 games since the start of 2019-20 (double-digit lead in 34 of 40).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 43-40 in Big 12 road games over the last 10 seasons, second-best behind Kansas (55-27).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 9-2 in Big 12 road games over the last 2 seasons (rest of league is 35-63 in B12 road games).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's defense forced 15+ turnovers in 24 of 40 games since the start of the 2019-20 season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU became the first team since 1992 to score 100 points in Manhattan in the Dec. 19 win at K-State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor returned four All-Big 12 players from a 2019-20 team which went 26-4 and spent five weeks ranked No. 1 nationally. The Bears finished last season ranked No. 4 in the coaches poll (No. 5 in AP).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 3 of the last 5 seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 1 of 5 Power-5 schools (Duke, Kentucky, UNC, Michigan St.) to win 18+ every year since 2008.<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 was picked to win the Big 12 in the league's preseason coaches' poll for the first time.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 61-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons (31-2 last 2 seasons, 10-0 this season).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (179-21).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU is 124-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (36-3 last 2 seasons).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 23-game winning streak last season was the longest ever by a Big 12 team (previously 22 by 1996-97 KU).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU's 13-game conference winning streak last year was the longest in school history (previously 11 in 1946 SWC).
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<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 227-97 over the last 10 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor's 227 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (273).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 318-144 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">• Eight of Baylor's players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Four after transferring to BU – Flagler, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and four as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner,
Vital and Dainja. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Nine of Baylor's 10 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (15 of last 16 seasons).
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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).
<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 942 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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 188th all-time series meeting and the 18th as Big 12 Conference members.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor leads the series 102-84, including a 41-43 mark in Fort Worth and a 13-4 record in the Drew era.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Since TCU joined the Big 12, Baylor is 13-4 in the series with an average scoring margin of +13.4 points per game.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears' 7 Big 12 home wins over TCU have been by at least 11 points and by an average of 20.3 points.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears are 5-3 against TCU in Fort Worth as Big 12 rivals, with an scoring margin of +9.1 points per game.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• BU beat TCU in Fort Worth by 26 in 2013, by 33 in 2014, by 7 (OT) in 2015, by 15 in 2016 and by 9 in 2017.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears lost at TCU by 10 in 2018, by 4 in 2019 and by 3 in 2020.
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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">LAST SEASON VS. TCU <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor broke a school-record with its 18th-straight win in a 68-52 victory over TCU on Feb. 1 in Waco.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The game was tied 17-17 with 8 minutes left in the first half, then BU went on a 14-0 run and led by at least 6 points the rest of the game. BU led 60-52 with 3:42 left, then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">closed the game on an 8-0 run to win 68-52.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor saw its 9-game road winning streak end after TCU rallied from 12 down to win 75-72 in Fort Worth on Feb. 29.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears led 28-21 at the half and extended to 39-27 with 16:25 left, but TCU went on a 23-10 run to take its first lead of the second half with 8 minutes remaining. BU went back ahead 54-50, but TCU went
on an 18-1 run.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">David Kaye</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">| Assistant AD for Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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