Baylor MBB Opens Big 12 Play at TCU

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BAYLOR BEARS (8-4)
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/cumestats.aspx?path=mbball> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/1/4/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_18_19_13_at_TCU.pdf?id=10116>

BAYLOR (8-4) VS. TCU (11-1)
January 5, 2018 • 3:05 p.m. CT
Fort Worth, Texas • Schollmaier Arena (6,800)

LIVE STATS: Stat Broadcast<https://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statmonitr.php?gid=tcu>
WATCH: ESPNU | ESPN App
Talent: Drew Fellios (pbp), Chris Spatola (analyst)
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TCU HORNED FROGS (11-1)
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Jamie Dixon (TCU, 1987)

Roster<https://unoprivateers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball> | Stats<https://unoprivateers.com/cumestats.aspx?path=mbball&year=2018> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/1/4/14_vs_Baylor.pdf?id=10117>

STORY LINES
• Baylor heads to Fort Worth for its 2019 Big 12 Conference opener at 3 p.m. CT Saturday.
• Saturday's game will be televised on ESPNU with Drew Fellios and Chris Spatola on the call.
• Saturday is the 184th series meeting – BU leads 100-83, including a 41-41 mark in Fort Worth.
• Baylor is 11-2 in Big 12 games against TCU with an average scoring margin of +14.5 points per game.
• Baylor won the first 11 Big 12 series meetings with TCU before TCU swept both games last year.
• BU lost to TCU 81-78 in overtime in Waco on Jan. 2 and 82-72 in Fort Worth on Feb. 24.
• Baylor opens Big 12 play on the road for a 6th straight season and opens vs. TCU for the first time.
• Baylor is 7-4 in Big 12 openers since 2008 and 10-12 all-time in Big 12 openers. All four of Baylor's losses in Big 12 openers since 2008 were on the road vs. top-25 ranked teams.
• Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> is in his 16th season in Waco and is the Bears' all-time wins leader (304-199).
• Baylor is 8-4 on the season, the 13th straight year with an 8-4 or better record entering Big 12 play.
• BU has built double-digit leads in 9 of 12 games this season and is 7-2 when building a double-digit lead.
• BU has used 9 different starters in its first 12 games, including 4 players making their first DI starts.
• Baylor returned 3 letterwinners from last year's team, the nation's fewest among Power-5 teams.
• King McClure<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7064> is the lone returning senior, while Tristan Clark<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7060> and Mark Vital<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7066> are back as sophomores.
• BU added 9 newcomers for 2018-19, including 5 transfers (two Division I, two JuCo, one Division III).
• Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071> is the first grad transfer in program history after graduating from Yale in May.
• Mason missed the first 3 games, but has played the last 9 games. He leads BU with 3.0 assists/game.
• Kegler, a Mississippi State transfer, has started the last 6 games after missing the season's first 6 games.
• Clark was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday after 17 pts, 12 rebs, 5 blks vs. UNO (12/29).
• Clark leads the nation with a 78.0 field goal percentage, which is 5% better than the closest player.
• Baylor is 15th nationally in scoring defense (60.4) and 18th in FG percentage defense (.382).
• Baylor ranks 3rd nationally in block percentage (19.2), while Clark is 10th nationally with 2.8 bpg.
• BU is 19th nationally in offensive rebounding percentage (37.3), and Vital ranks 26th nationally (15.0).
• Two of Baylor's four losses have come in the final minute after losing double-digit 2nd-half leads.
• BU has held opponents below 30 first-half points in 9 of 12 games after doing so in 12 of 34 last year.
• Drew is 1 of 17 Division I coaches with 300+ wins at his current school (1 of 9 in Power-5 conferences).
• Baylor is 30-33 in Big 12 road games since 2012, second-best in the league behind only Kansas (42-21).
• Baylor is 56-14 against in-state opponents since the start of the 2011-12 season.
• BU is 103-86 in Big 12 play in 11 seasons since 2008 after going 45-131 in the league's first 11 seasons.
• Baylor is 1 of 16 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (5 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• Baylor is 21-2 when leading at halftime since the start of the 2017-18 season (6-2 this season).
• BU is 76-17 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (8-2 this season).
• Drew is coaching his 504th game at Baylor (304-199). His .604 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .675 winning percentage since 2007-08 (270-130).

ON THE CALL
• Saturday's game will be broadcast on ESPNU and the ESPN App with Drew Fellios and Chris Spatola on the call.
• Fellios is calling his first Baylor game, while Spatola is calling his 3rd Baylor game. Spatola had the call when Baylor last played at Texas A&M on Dec. 19, 2015, and when the Bears hosted Oklahoma State on Jan. 15 last season.
QUICK HITS
• Baylor is one of nine teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last 11 seasons dating back to 2007-08 – Baylor, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Notre Dame and North Carolina.
• BU is 38-67 against AP-ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor has defeated 6 top-10 teams in the last two seasons entering 2018-19.
• Baylor is 11-21 against AP Top 10 teams since March 2012. BU started the Drew era 1-26 vs. top-10.
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (139-18).
• Baylor is 179-83 over the last 7 seasons, averaging 24.4 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 179 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (222).
• Baylor is 270-130 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• Baylor has the nation's 11th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 881 straight games.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
• Drew is in his 16th season at Baylor and is the school's all-time wins leader (301).
• Baylor is one of nine teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last 11 seasons dating back to 2007-08 – Baylor, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Notre Dame and North Carolina.
• Baylor has had a nation-leading four players selected in the NBA Draft since 2010 who weren't ranked in the ESPN100 out of high school — Quincy Acy, Ekpe Udoh, Pierre Jackson and Taurean Prince.
• Six Baylor players have been selected in the last six NBA Drafts, 10th-most nationally.
• In Drew's first 15 seasons at Baylor, 38 players have gone on to professional careers.
• Drew (48) is the youngest of 11 coaches to take his current program to four Sweet 16s since 2010.
• The Bears have advanced to postseason play in a school-record seven straight seasons (5 NCAA, 2 NIT).
• BU is 20-4 in regular-season tournaments since 2013-14, including wins in 14 of its last 15 games.
• Drew has won 20+ games in nine of the last 11 years — the Bears had 3 seasons of 20+ wins prior to his arrival.

SERIES HISTORY VS. TCU
• Saturday is the 184th all-time series meeting and the 14th as Big 12 Conference members.
• Baylor leads the series 100-82, including a 41-41 record in Fort Worth.
• Since TCU joined the Big 12, Baylor is 11-2 in the series with an average scoring margin of +14.5 points per game.
• The Bears are 5-1 against TCU in Fort Worth as Big 12 rivals, with an scoring margin of +13.3 points per game.
• 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.
• The Bears lost at TCU by 10 last season, snapping their 5-game winning streak in Fort Worth.

NON-CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
• Baylor went 8-4 in non-conference play, marking a 13th consecutive season entering Big 12 play at 8-4 or better.
• BU held Oregon to 47 points on Dec. 15, the Ducks' fewest in a game since scoring 46 vs. Cal on Feb. 21, 2013.
• BU won 58-49 at Arizona on Dec. 1, becoming the first team to hold UA below 50 points since Feb. 26, 2011.
• The win at Arizona snapped the Wildcats 52-game non-conference home winning streak.
• With the wins at Arizona and vs. Oregon, Baylor improved to 11-4 vs. the Pac-12 in the Drew era.
• Baylor is 34-9 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 3 seasons, including home victories against No. 4 Oregon, No. 7 Xavier and vs. Oregon, neutral site wins vs. No. 10 Louisville, vs. No. 24 Michigan State, vs. VCU, vs. USC, vs. Wisconsin and vs. Creighton and road wins at Arizona and Ole Miss.

HISTORY IN BIG 12 OPENERS
• Baylor is 7-4 in Big 12 Conference openers since 2008 and 10-11 all-time in Big 12 openers.
• Baylor won 6 straight openers from 2008-13 before losing 4 of the its 5 Big 12 openers (win in 2017). All four losses were on the road against top-25 ranked opponents.
• This is the 6th straight year Baylor has opened on the road, including 4 games against ranked teams – at No. 9 Iowa State (2014), at No. 18 Oklahoma (2015), at No. 2 Kansas (2016), at Oklahoma (2017) and at No. 22 Texas Tech (2018).
• Baylor and TCU are meeting in a conference opener for the first time since the 1993 Southwest Conference season.

A WIN WOULD ...
• Be Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378>'s 305th win at Baylor and the 325th of his Division I coaching career.
• Improve BU's record to 77-39 during King McClure's<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7064> 4-year career and 74-39 in games McClure has played.
• Make Baylor 12-2 against TCU as Big 12 rivals, 101-83 against TCU overall and 42-41 against TCU in Fort Worth.
• Improve Baylor's record in Big 12 openers to 8-4 since 2008 and 11-12 since they league's first year in 1997.
• Make Baylor 31-33 in Big 12 road games since 2012 and 22-24 in Big 12 road games since 2014.
• Improve Baylor's record to 104-86 in Big 12 play since 2008 after going 45-131 in the league's first 11 seasons.

CLARK EFFICIENT ON BOTH ENDS
• Sophomore forward Tristan Clark<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7060> leads the nation with a .780 field goal percentage, which is 5% better than the closest player (Dayton's Obi Toppin at .733). Clark is averaging just 1.7 missed field goals per game.
• Clark leads the Big 12 and ranks 10th nationally with 2.75 blocks per game, and with 33 blocks through 12 games, he's surpassed last season's blocked shots total (29 blocks in 33 games).
• Clark's 33 blocked shots are more than 72 Division I teams (thru Jan. 2), and he's blocked multiple shots in 11 of 12 games this season after doing so in 9 of 33 games as a freshman last season.

MCCLURE LEADING AS LONE RETURNING SENIOR
• Senior King McClure<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7064>, Baylor's lone player with 3+ years in the program, has taken his game to a new level this season. He's averaging 10.8 points per game, up 2.7 points from last year's 8.1 ppg average.
• McClure is shooting 42% from the field (up 3% from last year), 39% from 3-point range (up 4%), has nearly doubled his rebounding average to 4.9 rpg (up from 2.5 rpg) and is averaging 2.6 assists per game (up from 1.7 apg).
• McClure has posted 20+ points 3 times this season after doing so in 1 of 100 games over his first 3 years.
• McClure set a program record for rebounds by a guard when he grabbed 14 boards against George Mason (11/24).

MASON BATTLING THROUGH INJURED ANKLE
• Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071> has started the last 9 games after missing the majority of the previous 2+ seasons due to injury.
• Mason played in only 1 game over his last two seasons at Yale before joining the Bears as a grad transfer. He also missed the first 3 games at Baylor with an ankle injury before debuting as the first grad transfer in program history on Nov. 16.
• Mason ranks 2nd on the team with 14.0 points per game and leads the team with 3.0 assists per game.
• Mason led the Bears to a huge road win at Arizona (12/15) with a game-high 22 points and career-high 7 rebounds.
• He has scored 10+ points in 8 of 9 games played, including 3 games with 18+ points.

DREW ERA HIGHLIGHTS
• Drew is coaching his 504th game at Baylor (304-199). His .604 winning percentage is best in BU history, and he's the program's all-time wins leader by 103 victories over the next closest coach.
• Baylor has a .675 winning percentage (270-130) since Drew's first year with no scholarship restrictions in 2007-08 and a .683 winning percentage (179-83) over the last 7 seasons since 2011-12.
• In Drew's 16 seasons as Baylor head coach, BU has been ranked in 211 of 504 games. Prior to Drew, BU was ranked in 2 of 2,197 games over 97 seasons. In 10 seasons since 2008-09, BU has been ranked in 208 of 369 games.
• BU has graduated 91 percent of its scholarship seniors since Drew took over in 2003 (31 of 34).
• In Drew's first 15 seasons at Baylor, 38 players have gone on to professional careers.
• Baylor has won 5 tournament titles under Drew — 2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 Postseason NIT, 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis and 2017 Hall of Fame Classic. BU is 20-4 in regular-season tournaments since 2013-14.

BIG 12'S SECOND-BEST ROAD MARK SINCE 2012
• Baylor is 30-33 in Big 12 road games since 2012, second-best in the league behind only Kansas (42-21).
• BU is 21-24 in Big 12 road games since 2014, trailing only Kansas (29-16) and West Virginia (22-23).

BEARS CAP NON-CONFERENCE PLAY WITH 40-POINT WIN OVER NEW ORLEANS
• Tristan Clark<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7060> posted 17 points on 8-of-9 shooting, added 12 rebounds, 5 blocks and 2 steals to lead the Bears to an 84-44 win over New Orleans on Dec. 29. With his effort, Clark picked up Big 12 Player of the Week honors.
• All five Baylor starters posted multiple steals, as the Bears tied season-highs with 14 steals and 12 blocks.
• BU also had a season-high 22 assists. Jared Butler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7072> had 16 points and 6 assists in 25 minutes off the bench.

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