No. 2 Baylor MBB Seeks 10th Straight Road Win at TCU

Fri Feb 28 11:22:42 CST 2020

Complete game notes attached.
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2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (25-2, 14-1)
Location: Waco, Texas
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/2020/2/27/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_28_at_TCU.pdf>

BAYLOR (25-2, 14-2) at TCU (15-13, 6-9)
Feb. 29, 2020 • 1 p.m. CT
Fort Worth, Texas • Schollmaier Arena (8,500)
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WATCH: ESPN2 and ESPN App
Talent: Chuckie Kempf (pxp), Tim Welsh (analyst)
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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 TCU (15-13, 6-9)
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Head Coach: Jamie Dixon (TCU, 1987)
Roster<https://gofrogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://gofrogs.com/documents/2020/2/24/For_Website_8_.pdf> | Game Notes<https://gofrogs.com/documents/2020/2/27/29_vs_Baylor.pdf>
STORY LINES
• No. 2 Baylor looks for its 8th Big 12 road win of the season when it plays at 1 p.m. Saturday at TCU.
• Baylor's 14 conference wins are the most in program history (beating 12-6 in 2012 & 12-6 in 2017).
• BU is looking to sweep its school-record 6th Big 12 opponent this season (ISU, KSU, OU, OSU, UT).
• Baylor (9-0) can reach 10+ road wins for the 2nd time in program history (13-1 in 1945-46).
• BU can become the 3rd team in Big 12 history to reach 8 conference road wins (KU in 2002 & 2017).
• Baylor won 68-52 vs. TCU in Waco on Feb. 1. BU used a 14-0 run to break a 17-17 tie and led by at least 6 points the rest of the way. Freddie Gillespie had 12 points, 11 rebounds and 6 blocks.
• Baylor fell to No. 2 in this week's AP Top 25, snapping a streak of 5 straight weeks at No. 1.
• Five straight weeks at No. 1 tied the nation's longest streak since Kentucky in 2014-15.
• BU has been top-2 ranked for 7 consecutive weeks after being top-2 for 3 total weeks prior to 2020.
• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 8 straight weeks top-5 ranked (previously 6 straight in 2017).
• BU has led by at least 5 points in every game this season and has built a double-digit lead in 23 of 27 games.
• BU has trailed by double-digits only twice all season (win at Oklahoma State, loss vs. Kansas).
• Baylor's streak of 17 consecutive AP polls ranked is tied for 3rd-longest in program history (all since 2010).
• BU's 25-2 is its best 27-game mark in program history. BU's best 28-game start is 23-5 in 2012 & 2017.
• Baylor (6-1) has the nation's best record vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams (min. 3 games).
• Both of Baylor's losses this season have been by 3 points (Nov. 8 vs. Washington, Feb. 22 vs. Kansas).
• Baylor ranks 5th nationally in scoring defense (58.7) and 13th nationally in scoring margin (+12.7).
• Baylor's 58.7 ppg allowed is on pace to break the Big 12 scoring defense record (59.4 TAMU in 2007).
• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 10th nationally (.434) and effective FG% defense ranks 12th (.442).
• BU has trailed for only 13.1% of game time over 21 total games since December 1 (109:51 of 840:00).
• Baylor has trailed in the 2nd half only twice since December 1 (win at Oklahoma State, loss vs. Kansas).
• BU and KU are both 7-0 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league is a combined 10-51.
• BU has the nation's 2nd-longest road winning streak at 9 straight (San Diego State 11).
• Baylor is 41-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (51-27).
• BU has held 8 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, the program record for most in a single season.
• BU is No. 2 in the NET with 6 top-25 NET wins: No. 1 (road), No. 7, No. 13, No. 16, No. 21 (road), No. 23.
• Baylor (10-1), Kansas (11-3) and Seton Hall (10-5) are the nation's only teams with 10+ Quadrant 1 wins.
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 16 of 27 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.
• Baylor has held 5 high-major opponents to their season-low scoring totals – Arizona (58), Butler (52), Texas (44), Texas Tech (52) and Kansas (55). BU has held 25 of 27 opponents below 70 points.
• BU is the only team with 2 Naismith Defensive POY semifinalists (Mark Vital & Davion Mitchell).
• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 92-8 this year.
• Baylor is playing its 239th 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 236 of 418 games.

QUICK HITS
• Baylor's 23-game winning streak was the longest ever by a Big 12 team (previously 22 by 1996-97 KU).
• BU's 13-game conference winning streak was the longest in school history (previously 11 in 1946 SWC).
• 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).
• Baylor is 51-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (21-1 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (169-20).
• BU is 113-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (25-1 this season).
• Baylor is 216-95 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 216 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (261).
• Baylor is 307-142 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).
• 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).
• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 930 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 is 6-1 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 10-2 in conference challenges.
• 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).

SEVEN STRAIGHT WEEKS TOP-2 RANKED
• BU is No. 2 in this week's AP Top 25, snapping a streak of 5 straight weeks at the nation's No. 1 team.
• Baylor has been top-2 ranked in 7 consecutive polls. Prior to 2020, BU was top-2 in 3 total polls all-time (all in 2017).
• Baylor's 5-week streak at No. 1 was the longest since Kentucky in 2015 and longest by a Texas team since 1968.
• Baylor's streak of 17 consecutive weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 is tied for the 3rd-longest streak in program history – 25 consecutive polls in 2016-17, 22 in 2011-12, 17 in 2010-11, 17 in 2019-20.
• Baylor was ranked No. 16 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll, which tied the 2nd-highest preseason ranking in BU history.

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday is the 187th all-time series meeting and the 17th as Big 12 Conference members.
• Baylor leads the series 102-83, including a 41-42 mark in Fort Worth and a 13-3 record in the Drew era.
• Since TCU joined the Big 12, Baylor is 13-3 in the series with an average scoring margin of +14.4 points per game.
• The Bears' 7 Big 12 home wins over TCU have been by at least 11 points and by an average of 20.3 points.
• The Bears are 5-2 against TCU in Fort Worth as Big 12 rivals, with an scoring margin of +10.9 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 in 2018 and by 4 in 2019, falling to 5-2 in Big 12 games played in Fort Worth.

LAST TIME VS. TCU
• Baylor broke a school-record by running its winning streak to 18 straight with at 68-52 win over TCU on Feb. 1.
• 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 closed the game on an 8-0 run to win 68-52.
• Freddie Gillespie had his 8th double-double with 12 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high 6 blocks.

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

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