No. 4 Baylor MBB Travels to No. 3 Kansas for Top-5 Showdown

Thu Jan 9 17:33:39 CST 2020

Complete game notes attached.

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4/4 BAYLOR BEARS (12-1, 2-0)
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/2020/1/9/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_14_at_Kansas.pdf>
BAYLOR (12-1, 2-0) at KANSAS (12-2, 2-0)
Jan. 11, 2020 • Noon CT
Lawrence, Kan. • Allen Fieldhouse (16,300)
LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com
WATCH: CBS and CBS Sports app
Talent: Brad Nessler (pxp), Bill Raftery (analyst)
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Talent: John Morris<https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/john-morris/52> (pxp), Pat Nunley (analyst)
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3/3 KANSAS (12-2, 2-0)
Location: Lawrence, Kan.
Head Coach: Bill Self (Oklahoma State, 1985)
Roster<https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/> | Stats<https://kuathletics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/201920-MBB-SeasonBook1.8.20.pdf>

STORY LINES
• No. 4/4 Baylor heads to No. 3/3 Kansas for a top-5 showdown at noon CT Saturday on CBS.
• This is the 4th top-5 matchup in BU history (0-3; 2012 vs. Missouri, 2017 vs. KU, 2017 at KU).
• Baylor has never won at Allen Fieldhouse (0-17) or defeated an AP top-5 team in a road game (0-22).
• Baylor is riding an 11-game winning streak, tied for the 5th-longest streak in program history. It's also the nation's 3rd-longest active streak behind San Diego State (16) and Auburn (14).
• Baylor is the nation's only program with 4 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams this season (4-0).
• BU is looking to win 5 consecutive games vs. ranked teams for the first time in program history. BU has already defeated No. 17 Villanova, No. 12 Arizona, No. 18 Butler and No. 22 Texas Tech.
• Baylor ranks 9th nationally in scoring defense (58.4) and 13th nationally in scoring margin (+15.8).
• Baylor is 35-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (46-28).
• BU is 45-72 against AP-ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor is 12-24 vs. AP Top 10 teams since March 2012. BU started the Drew era 1-26 vs. top-10.
• Baylor has led or been tied for 96% of game time over its last 7 games (269:36 of 280:00).
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 9 of 13 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.
• Baylor has held its last 4 high-major opponents to season-low scoring totals – Arizona (58; 67+ all other games), Butler (52; 60+ other games), Texas (44; 48+ other games), Texas Tech (52; 60+ other games).
• BU is No. 4 in the most recent AP Top 25 and has moved up in the rankings in 7 consecutive weeks.
• Baylor's No. 4 AP ranking is its highest since the Bears were No. 4 on Feb. 13, 2017.
• Baylor's streak of 10 consecutive AP polls ranked is the 6th-longest in program history (all since 2010).
• The Bears have now been ranked in every AP Top 25 spot except No. 8 during the 17-year Drew era.
• BU reached double-digit non-conference for the 6th time in the last 7 seasons and 12th time in 14 years.
• 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 the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 64-7 this year and all four are currently top-10 ranked (No. 3 VB, No. 4 MBB, No. 6 WBB, No. 7 FB).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (328-210).
• Drew is coaching his 539th game at Baylor (328-210). His .610 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .676 winning percentage since 2007-08 (294-141).
• Baylor is playing its 225th 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 222 of 404 games.
• BU has advanced to the postseason in 8 straight seasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.
• BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct. in 6 straight seasons (No. 6 this year).
• 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.

QUICK HITS
• Baylor is 39-4 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 (157-20).
• BU is 100-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (12-1 this season).
• Baylor is 203-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 203 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (248).
• Baylor is 294-141 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).
• 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 916 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 12 of the last 13 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
• Saturday is the 38th all-time meeting between Baylor and Kansas. BU is 5-32 against the Jayhawks.
• Baylor lost both games against Kansas last year, but the Bears won the final meeting of the 2018 season in Waco.
• Baylor's wins in the series came in 2001 vs. No. 6 Kansas (Waco), in 2009 vs. No. 14 Kansas (Oklahoma City), in 2012 vs. No. 3 (Kansas City), in 2013 vs. No. 4 Kansas (Waco) and in 2018 vs. No. 10 Kansas (Waco).
• The Bears are 0-17 all-time in Lawrence, and 13 of the first 14 meetings were decided by double-digits before single-digit games in each of the last three meetings in Lawrence – 2017 (73-68), 2018 (70-67) and 2019 (78-70).

LAST TIME VS. KANSAS
• Baylor dropped its 2019 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 had 31 points (the most by a visiting player at Kansas in 2018-19), 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, who sat out to rest his foot injury.

NATION'S BEST FOUR WINS VS. AP TOP 25 TEAMS
• Baylor is the nation's only team with four wins against AP Top 25 teams this season. BU is 4-0 with home wins against No. 12 Arizona and No. 18 Butler, a neutral win vs. No. 17 Villanova and a road win at No. 22 Texas Tech.
• Those four opponents all remain top-25 ranked and have a combined 46-7 record in all other games.
• In three of those wins, Baylor held its opponent below 60 points (58 vs. Arizona, 52 vs. Butler, 52 at Texas Tech).
• Baylor led for 79% of game time in those four wins (125:50 of 160:00). BU never trailed Butler, the largest deficit the Bears faced against Arizona was 2 points, against Villanova was 6 points and at Texas Tech was 3 points.

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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