No. 10 Baylor MBB Faces UT Martin in Houston

Tue Dec 17 18:51:40 CST 2019

Complete game notes attached.

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10/11 BAYLOR BEARS (8-1)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> (Butler, 1993)
Roster<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball> | Stats<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/12/17/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_10_vs_UT_Martin.pdf>
BAYLOR (7-1) vs. UT MARTIN (3-6)
Dec. 18, 2019 • 9 p.m. CT
Houston, Texas • Toyota Center (18,300)
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Talent: John Morris<https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/john-morris/52> (pxp), Pat Nunley (analyst)
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NR/NR UT MARTIN (3-6)
Location: Martin, Tenn.
Conference: OVC
Head Coach: Anthony Stewart (Mount Union, 1993)
Roster<https://utmsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://static.utmsports.com/custompages/stats/MBasketball/1920/MBB_Cumes.pdf>

STORY LINES
• No. 10 Baylor heads to Houston to face UT Martin in the Battleground 2k19 at Toyota Center.
• Baylor is coming off a pair of wins against top-20 opponents, knocking off No. 12 Arizona and No. 18 Butler despite shooting a combined 33 percent across those two games (38-of-116).
• BU has defeated 3 ranked teams prior to January for the 2nd time in program history (4-0 in 2016-17).
• Baylor is playing in Houston for the first time since the 2010 Elite Eight at Reliant Stadium, and the Bears are playing in Toyota Center for the first time in the arena's 17-year history.
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 7 of 9 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.
• BU is No. 10 in the most recent AP Top 25 and has been ranked in all 7 AP polls this season.
• Baylor's streak of 7 consecutive AP polls ranked ties the 7th-longest in program history (all since 2009).
• Baylor's No. 10 ranking is its highest since the Bears were No. 9 entering the 2017 Big 12 tournament.
• The Bears have now been ranked in every AP Top 25 spot except No. 8 during the 17-year Drew era.
• BU has won 7 straight games, its longest non-conference winning streak since starting 15-0 in 2017.
• BU won its third tournament title in 4 years by beating Villanova to win the Myrtle Beach Invitational.
• Baylor is 1 of 6 Power-5 programs to win 18+ games in each of the last 12 seasons since 2008, joining Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State and North Carolina.
• Baylor is 44-11 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 4 seasons since 2016-17.
• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 56-5 this year. All of those teams are currently top-10 ranked (No. 1 VB, No. 7 WBB, No. 8 FB, No. 10 MBB).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (324-210).
• Drew is coaching his 535th game at Baylor (324-210). His .607 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .673 winning percentage since 2007-08 (290-141).
• Baylor is playing its 221st 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 218 of 400 games.
• Baylor is coming off its 10th 20-win season in the last 12 years. The Bears were a No. 9 seed in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, where they knocked off Syracuse before falling to No. 1 seed Gonzaga.
• BU was picked 2nd in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, tying the highest in program history (2012-13). The Bears were picked 9th in last year's poll, but overcame a multitude of injuries to finish in 4th place.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 7 of 10 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• BU has advanced to the postseason in 8 straight seasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.
• Baylor's streak of 11 consecutive seasons ranked was snapped last season, but the Bears have now been ranked in 12 of 13 seasons since 2007-08. BU was ranked only twice prior to the Drew era.
• BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct. in 6 straight seasons (No. 2 last year).
• BU has been top-25 nationally in adj. offensive efficiency in 7 of the last 8 seasons (No. 20 last year).
• Baylor is 60-31 against non-conference teams in neutral-road games during the Drew era, including a 32-16 record in away games against non-Big 12 teams since 2011-12.

QUICK HITS
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Eight of Baylor's nine starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (14 of last 15 seasons).
• BU is 44-72 against AP-ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor is 12-23 against AP Top 10 teams since March 2012. BU started the Drew era 1-26 vs. top-10.
• Baylor has defeated 7 top-10 teams in the last 3 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco.
• Baylor is 35-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18.
• Baylor has won 88% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (153-20).
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 10 of the last 12 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
• The Bears are one of 11 programs nationally (1 of 6 in Power-5) to win 18+ games in every year since 2008.
• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• BU is 96-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (8-1 this season).
• Baylor is 199-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 199 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (245).
• Baylor is 290-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• BU is 5-1 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 9-2 in conference challenges.
• Baylor has the nation's 11th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 912 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).
• BU has recorded double-digit non-conference wins in 11 of the last 12 seasons (all except 2012-13).
• 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).

SERIES HISTORY
• Wednesday is the first series meeting between Baylor and UT Martin. The Bears are 3-3 all-time against current OVC members – 2-2 vs. Murray State, 1-0 vs. Morehead State, 0-1 vs. Eastern Kentucky.
• Wednesday is Baylor's first game against an Ohio Valley Conference opponent since a 71-66 win vs. Morehead State in Las Vegas on Dec. 21, 1982.

BACK-TO-BACK TOP-20 WINS KEYED BY DEFENSE
• Baylor has knocked off No. 12 Arizona and No. 18 Butler in its last two games, despite shooting 35 percent against Butler (21-60) and 30 percent against Arizona (17-56). The Bears shot .327 (38-116) over those two games.
• The Bears led for 75:30 of 80:00 minutes in those two games, holding a lead for 94 percent of game time.
• BU limited Arizona to .269 (14-52) from the field, the Wildcats' lowest in a game since at least 2000.
• The Bears held Butler to .392 (20-51) from the field and each team had 11 turnovers, but Baylor turned those 11 Butler turnovers into 17 points, while limiting the Bulldogs to 5 points off turnovers.

THREE WINS VS. TOP-20 TEAMS
• Baylor is 3-0 this season against ranked opponents, defeating No. 12 Arizona, No. 17 Villanova and No. 18 Butler.
• Those three teams all remain top-20 ranked and have a combined 28-2 record in all other games.
• BU's only loss this season was by 3 points on a neutral court against current No. 22 Washington.
• The Bears have 3 wins against teams currently ranked in the KenPom Top 20 (No. 10 Butler, No. 15 Arizona, No. 19 Villanova). Duke and Gonzaga are the only other teams with multiple top-20 wins, and they have two apiece.

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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