No. 7 Baylor MBB Hosts Jackson State

[Kaye, David]

Complete game notes attached.

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7/6 BAYLOR BEARS (9-1)
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/2019/12/28/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_11_JACKSON_STATE.pdf>
BAYLOR (9-1) vs. JACKSON STATE (3-9)
Dec. 30, 2019 • 2 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)
LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com
WATCH: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Talent: John Morris<https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/john-morris/52> (pxp), King McClure<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/king-mcclure/7064> (analyst)
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Talent: Pat Nunley (pxp), David Kaye<https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/david-kaye/34> (analyst)
[Jackson State]
NR/NR JACKSON STATE (3-9)
Location: Jackson, Miss.
Conference: SWAC
Head Coach: Wayne Brent (Louisiana-Monroe, 1989)
Roster<https://gojsutigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/2019-20> | Stats<https://gojsutigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats>

STORY LINES
• No. 7 Baylor hosts Jackson State at 2 pm CT Monday in its final game before Big 12 play.
• Baylor is riding an 8-game winning streak, the nation's 5th-longest active streak.
• BU has defeated 3 ranked teams prior to January for the 2nd time in program history (4-0 in 2016-17).
• BU needs a win to go undefeated in December for the 8th time in the last 13 seasons.
• Baylor has led for 97% of game time over its last 4 games (154:35 of 160 minutes).
• Baylor is 8-0 all-time against Jackson State, with a +26.1 average scoring margin. All of Baylor's wins vs. Jackson State have been by 14+ points, and BU is 58-1 against current SWAC teams.
• Baylor has started 9-1 or better thru 10 games for the 8th time in the last 13 seasons (since 2007-08). The Bears had only five starts of 9-1 or better in the program's previous 101 seasons.
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 8 of 10 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.
• BU is No. 7 in the most recent AP Top 25 and has been ranked in all 8 AP polls this season.
• Baylor's streak of 8 consecutive AP polls ranked is the 7th-longest in program history (all since 2009).
• Baylor's No. 7 ranking is its highest since the Bears were No. 4 on Feb. 13, 2017. It's the first time BU has been ranked No. 7 since Jan. 6, 2014 and Baylor's 36th time voted into the AP Top 10.
• The Bears have now been ranked in every AP Top 25 spot except No. 8 during the 17-year Drew era.
• 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 45-11 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 59-6 this year and all four are currently top-10 ranked (No. 3 VB, No. 6 WBB, No. 7 FB, No. 7 MBB).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (325-210).
• Drew is coaching his 536th game at Baylor (325-210). His .607 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .674 winning percentage since 2007-08 (291-141).
• Baylor is playing its 222nd 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 219 of 401 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 has posted a 70-11 mark in November and December games since 2013.
• Baylor has recorded a combined 152-34 record in November and December games during the Drew era.
• Baylor is 51-5 in regular-season non-conference games against unranked teams since December 2014.

QUICK HITS
• Baylor is 36-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18.
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (154-20).
• BU is 97-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (9-1 this season).
• Baylor is 200-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 200 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (245).
• Baylor is 291-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• 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 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 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 913 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
• Monday is the 9th series meeting between Baylor and Jackson State, all since 2007. The Bears are 8-0 all-time against JSU, including a 7-0 mark in Waco. Baylor is 58-1 against current SWAC teams.
• All 8 series meetings have been decided by 14+ points, with Baylor posting a +26.1 average margin of victory.

IMPRESSIVE NON-CONFERENCE NUMBERS AT HOME
• Baylor is 64-4 in its last 68 non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.
• Baylor is 40-7 in home games against unranked opponents (including Big 12 play) since 2016-17.
• Baylor is 129-16 in non-conference home games in the Drew era, including 103-8 since 2007-08.

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

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