Baylor MBB Faces Iowa State in Big 12 Championship Quarterfinals

Wed Mar 13 14:28:02 CDT 2019

Complete game notes attached.

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BAYLOR BEARS (19-12, 10-8)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> (Butler, 1993)
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BAYLOR (19-12, 10-8) vs. IOWA STATE (20-11, 9-9)
March 14, 2019 • 11:30 a.m. CT
Kansas City, Mo. • Sprint Center (18,972)
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IOWA STATE CYCLONES (20-11, 9-9)
Location: Ames, Iowa
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Steve Prohm (Alabama, 1997)
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STORY LINES
• Baylor faces Iowa State in Thursday's quarterfinal, the 5th all-time meeting at Big 12 Championships.
• BU beat ISU at the 2001 Big 12 Championship, but lost to the Cyclones in 2000, 2005 and 2014.
• Baylor won both games vs. Iowa State this season – 73-70 in Waco and 73-69 in Ames.
• Thursday is the 38th series meeting. Baylor has won 8 of the last 10, but ISU leads the series 19-18.
• The home team has won 28 of 33 campus site games in the series, and BU is 1-3 vs. ISU at neutral sites.
• BU won 73-70 when the teams met in Waco on Jan. 8. Iowa State led 66-64 with 3 minutes left, but Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071> scored 7 straight BU points to give the Bears the lead for good.
• The Bears swept the season series with a 73-69 win in Ames on Feb. 19. Freddie Gillespie<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7061> had his first double-double (14p/10r), while Jared Butler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7072> added team-highs of 17 points and 5 assists.
• BU is 16-21 all-time in Big 12 Championships, including 12-14 under Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> and 11-9 since 2009.
• BU has played in the Big 12 Championship final 3 times in the last 10 games (6 semifinal appearances).
• BU is the No. 4 seed for a 3rd time — advanced to the final as No. 4 in 2012 and semifinal in 2015.
• BU is a top-5 seed for a 5th straight year. Prior to that span, BU was top-5 in 4 of 18 Big 12 Championships.
• Baylor is 32-18 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last 10 seasons.
• Four BU players earned All-Big 12 — Mason (2nd), Butler (HM), Mario Kegler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7062> (HM) and Mark Vital<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7066> (HM).
• BU is 2nd nationally in offensive rebounding pct. (38.1), its 6th straight year in the nation's top 10.
• BU has been out-rebounded just once in its last 23 games (+7.7 avg. rebounding margin) in that span.
• Baylor finished 4th in the Big 12 standings after being picked 9th in the preseason coaches poll.
• In Big 12 play, BU led the league in offensive efficiency (109.2), assists (14.4/gm), 3-point pct. (.373), 3-pointers made (8.9/gm), rebounding (37.9/gm) and rebounding margin (+6.5/gm).
• BU needs a win for 20+ wins in 10 of its last 12 seasons. Prior to 2008, BU had only 3 20-win seasons.
• Mason has been limited in the last 10 games with a toe injury, King McClure<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7064> has missed 5 games with a knee injury, Clark has missed 17 straight games, and Jake Lindsey<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7063> has missed the entire season.
• All told, those 4 projected starters have missed 59 total games, including 42 in Big 12 play.
• Butler joined the starting lineup with Clark out and is averaging 13.4 ppg and 3.5 apg in 17 starts.
• Butler is shooting 42% on 3FGs (45-106) since becoming a starter and made a 3-pointer in all 17 games.
• In the last 10 games, Butler is averaging a team-high 14.7 points, including 31 points Saturday at Kansas.
• Kegler has led BU in scoring in 3 of its last 5 games, averaging 14.6 ppg, 6.8 rpg in that span.
• Kegler is averaging 12.6 points and 5.9 rebounds over his last 14 games, while shooting 38% on 3FGs.
• Devonte Bandoo<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7069> is averaging 12.7 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1.8 apg in 30.3 mpg over the last 9 games.
• Flo Thamba<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7067> and Gillespie have combined for 8.6 ppg, 7.8 rpg and 1.9 bpg in 32.2 mpg in 17 games since Clark's injury. Prior to the injury they averaged 2.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg and 0.9 bpg in 12.8 mpg.
• Gillespie is averaging 7.6 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 1.5 bpg and shooting 68% (45-66) over the last 13 games. He entered that stretch with 25 points, 30 rebounds and 4 blocks in 10 games played (2.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 0.4 bpg).
• Vital's last 5 games: 10.2 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.2 bpg, 1.2 spg in 33.0 mpg; 66% FTs (21-of-32).

ON THE CALL
• Thursday's game will be broadcast on ESPN2 with Bob Wischusen, Fran Fraschilla and Holly Rowe.
• Wischusen is calling his first BU game since Baylor's win over Oklahoma on Feb. 27 last season.
• Fraschilla is on his 4th BU game this season – Baylor's win over Oregon on Dec. 21 and both games vs. Kansas.
• Rowe is on the sideline for her first Baylor game since Feb. 1, 2017, at Kansas.

QUICK HITS
• Baylor has won 19+ games in 8 straight seasons and is seeking its 10th 20-win season in the last 12 years.
• Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> is in his 16th season in Waco and is the Bears' all-time wins leader (315-207).
• Drew is coaching his 523rd game at Baylor (315-207). His .603 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .671 winning percentage since 2007-08 (281-138).
• Baylor is 34-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, second-best in the league behind only Kansas (44-24).
• Baylor is 1 of 16 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (5 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• Baylor is 29-3 when leading at halftime over the last two seasons (14-3 this season).
• BU is 87-20 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (19-5 this season).
• BU is 99-77 in Big 12 play in 10 seasons since 2010 after going 59-149 in the league's first 13 seasons.
• BU recorded double-digit Big 12 wins for the 4th time in the last 5 seasons and 6th time in 10 years.
• BU has won 8+ Big 12 games in 8 straight seasons after winning 8+ just 3 times in the league's first 15 years.
• 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 41-71 against AP Top 25 teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor defeated 7 top-10 teams in the last 3 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco.
• Baylor is 12-22 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 (148-19).
• Baylor is 190-91 over the last 7 seasons, averaging 24.4 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 190 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (233).
• Baylor is 281-138 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• Baylor beat Alabama to move to 5-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league.
• Baylor has the nation's 11th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 900 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).

SERIES HISTORY VS. IOWA STATE
• Thursday is the 38th series meeting. Baylor has won 8 of the last 10 meetings, but trails 18-19 in the series.
• The home team has won 28 of 33 campus site games in the all-time series, and BU is 1-3 vs. ISU at neutral sites.
• Baylor and ISU are meeting at a Big 12 Championship for the 5th time. BU is 1-3 in those games, with a win in the 2001 quarterfinals and losses in the 2000 quarterfinals, 2005 first round and 2014 final.
• Thursday is the first Big 12 Championship meeting with Baylor as the higher seed. No. 1 ISU beat No. 9 BU in 2000, No. 8 BU beat No. 1 ISU in 2001, No. 5 ISU beat No. 12 BU in 2005 and No. 4 ISU beat No. 7 BU in 2014.
• Baylor has won 6 straight home games vs. Iowa State and 12 of 13 home games vs. ISU dating back to 2002.
• Since the Big 12 went to double round-robin play in 2012, the teams have split the season series four times (2012, 2014, 2017, 2018), BU has swept three times (2015, 2016, 2019) and ISU has swept once (2013).

THIS SEASON VS. IOWA STATE
• Baylor swept the season series against Iowa State for the third time in the last five seasons.
• The Bears won 73-70 in Waco on Jan. 8 and 73-69 in Ames on Feb. 19. Both games featured double-digit lead changes (10 in Waco, 13 in Ames), and neither team led by more than 10 points at any point in the season series.
• Both games were within 1 point in the final 2 minutes. In Waco, ISU led 66-64 with 2 minutes left. In Ames, there were 10 second-half lead changes and neither team led by more than 4 points in the 2nd half until the final 35 seconds.
• The Bears out-rebounded ISU 44-28 in Ames and 33-26 in Waco, averaging a +11.5 rebounding margin.
• Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071> posted 25 points in Waco and 14 in Ames to lead the team with 19.5 ppg vs. Iowa State.
• Freddie Gillespie<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7061> didn't play in the meeting in Waco, but posted 14 points and 10 rebounds in Ames.
• Tristan Clark<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7060> had 16 points in the game in Waco, which is when he suffered a season-ending knee injury.
• Devonte Bandoo<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7069> came off the bench both games, posting 13 points in Waco and 10 in Ames.
• Baylor became the only visiting team to win 3 games at Hilton Coliseum in the last 5 seasons (2015, 2016, 2019).

BAYLOR'S BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
• Baylor is the No. 4 seed for the third time in Big 12 Championship history (2012, lost in final; 2015, lost in semifinal).
• Baylor is 16-21 all-time in the Big 12 Championship and 12-14 under head coach Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378>.
• Baylor is 10-10 all-time at Sprint Center, including a 2-0 mark in the 2017 Hall of Fame Classic
• BU is 8-10 in Big 12 Championship games at Sprint Center and 12-17 in Big 12 Championship games in Kansas City.
• BU is 6-4 in Big 12 Championship play as the higher seed and 10-17 as the lower seed.
• Baylor is the only team to defeat three No. 1 seeds at the Big 12 Championship (2001, 2009, 2012), and Iowa State (2014, 2015) is the only other program with multiple wins over No. 1 seeds at the Big 12 Championship.

FOUR PROJECTED STARTERS HAVE MISSED SIGNIFICANT TIME
• Baylor has had four projected starters miss significant time due to injuries. Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071> (6 games; toe) and King McClure<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7064> (5 games; knee) have returned, while Tristan Clark<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7060> (knee) and Jake Lindsey<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7063> (hip) are out for the season.
• Those four starters all missed the Feb. 9 game vs. K-State and the Feb. 16 game at Texas Tech, both losses.
• All told, those four starters have combined to miss 59 games this season, including 42 games in Big 12 play.

3-GUARD LINEUP AND UNHERALDED BIG MEN LEADING BEARS' RESURGENCE
• Baylor switched to a 3-guard lineup after Tristan Clark's<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7060> season-ending injury, swapping freshman guard Jared Butler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7072> into the starting lineup. The Bears moved 6-foot-5 sophomore Mark Vital<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7066> to the starting 5-spot.
• In 17 games without Clark, Baylor (10-7) is making 3 more 3-pointers per game (9.1 from 6.4), shooting 8% higher from 3-point range (37% from 29%) and scoring 0.8 more points per game (72.2 from 71.4).
• Four Bears are shooting 37%+ from 3-point range since Clark's injury – Bandoo (43%, 2.0/gm), Butler (43%, 2.6/gm), Mason (38%, 2.1/gm) and Kegler (37%, 1.1/gm). They have combined for 7.5 made 3-pointers per game.
• Butler in 17 games since becoming a starter — 13.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 3.5 apg, 2.6 3FGM/gm and 43% on 3-pointers.
• Butler's first 14 games prior to Clark injury — 6.5 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 1.9 apg, 0.7 3FGM/gm and 23% on 3-pointers.
• Freddie Gillespie<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7061> and Flo Thamba<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7067> combined in 17 games since Clark's injury — 8.6 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 1.9 bpg in 32.2 mpg.
• Prior to the injury Gillespie and Thamba combined to average 2.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg and 0.9 bpg in 12.8 mpg.
• Devonte Bandoo's<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7069> first 14 games — 6.8 ppg, 34% 3FGs; Bandoo's last 17 games — 10.0 ppg, 43% 3FGs.
• Mario Kegler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7062> is averaging 11.2 ppg, up from 8.8 ppg, and shooting 3-pointers at 37% (19-52), up from 8% (2-24).

A WIN WOULD ...
• Be Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378>'s 316th win at Baylor and the 336th of his Division I coaching career.
• Make Baylor 9-2 in its last 11 games vs. Iowa State and even the all-time series at 19-19.
• Improve Baylor's record against Iowa State at Big 12 Championships to 2-3.
• Advance Baylor to the Big 12 Championship semifinals for the first time since 2016, 4th time in the last 6 seasons and 7th time in the last 11 seasons. BU advanced to the semifinals just once in the first 12 Big 12 Championships.
• Give BU 20+ wins in 10 of the last 12 seasons. BU had 20+ wins in only 3 seasons prior to that stretch.
• Make Baylor 17-21 all-time at Big 12 Championships, including 13-14 in the Drew era and 12-9 since 2009.

FOUR BEARS EARN ALL-BIG 12 HONORS
• A school-record-tying four Baylor players earned All-Big 12 recognition from the league's coaches.
• Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071> was named to the All-Big 12 Second Team and All-Newcomer Team, Jared Butler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7072> was named honorable mention All-Big 12 and selected to the All-Freshman Team, Mario Kegler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7062> was tabbed honorable mention All-Big 12 and Mark Vital<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7066> was selected honorable mention All-Big 12 and named to the All-Defensive Team.
• Baylor has had multiple All-Big 12 selections in 13 consecutive seasons. BU has had 4 honorees in 3 of the last 4 years.

MISSED 3'S COST BEARS IN LOSS AT KANSAS
• Baylor dropped its regular season finale, 78-70, at No. 13 Kansas on March 9. The Bears turned 18 offensive rebounds into 22 second-chance points, but BU shot 19% (6-of-31) from 3-point range in the loss.
• Freshman Jared Butler<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7072> poured in a career-high 31 points, including 23 in the 2nd half.
• The Bears had 8 more field goal attempts than Kansas, but made 2 fewer. Both teams made 6 3-pointers, despite BU attempting 15 more than KU. Baylor played without Makai Mason<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7071>, who sat out to rest his foot injury.

UP NEXT
• The winner of the BU-ISU game will face either the No. 1 seed (K-State), the No. 8 seed (TCU) or the No. 9 seed (Oklahoma State) in a semifinal game at 6 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN or ESPN2.
• Saturday's Big 12 Championship final is scheduled for 5 p.m. CT on ESPN.

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