No. 1 Baylor MBB Carries 16-Game Winning Streak to Iowa State

Mon Jan 27 21:34:39 CST 2020

Complete game notes attached.
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1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (17-1, 6-0)
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/2020/1/27/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_19_at_Iowa_State.pdf>

BAYLOR (17-1, 6-0) at IOWA STATE (9-10, 2-4)
Jan. 29, 2020 • 8 p.m. CT
Ames, Iowa • Hilton Coliseum (14,356)
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NR/NR IOWA STATE (9-10, 2-4)
Location: Ames, Iowa
Head Coach: Steve Prohm (Alabama, 1997)

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STORY LINES
• No. 1 Baylor carries a 16-game winning streak into Wednesday's game at Iowa State.
• Baylor is seeking its first 7-0 start to league play since starting 10-0 in the 1958 Southwest Conference. BU's last 7-game conference winning streak was in 1988 Southwest Conference play.
• BU is 5-0 in road games, the 2nd-longest road winning streak in program history –12 in 1945-46.
• BU needs a win for its first undefeated month of January since going 6-0 in January 1948.
• Wednesday is the 40th series meeting, and the home team has won 29 of 34 campus-site games.
• Baylor is 9-3 against Iowa State since 2015 and 15-13 vs. ISU during the 17-year Scott Drew era.
• Baylor lost its first 12 trips to Ames, but BU is 3-2 in Ames since getting its first win at Hilton in 2015.
• BU is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. BU moved up in the poll 9 straight weeks until reaching No. 1 on Jan. 20.
• Baylor was voted No. 1 in the AP poll for the 3rd time in program history – Jan. 9, 2017 & last 2 weeks.
• Baylor's streak of 13 consecutive AP polls ranked is the 5th-longest in program history (all since 2010).
• With a win, Baylor can tie the best 19-game start in program history (18-1 in 2016-17).
• Baylor's 16-game winning streak is the 2nd-longest in program history (record is 17 straight wins to start 2011-12) and is the nation's 2nd-longest active streak behind San Diego State (21).
• Baylor is the nation's only program with 5 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams this season (5-0).
• Baylor ranks 5th nationally in scoring defense (58.6) and 10th nationally in scoring margin (+14.1).
• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 8th nationally (.422) and effective FG% defense ranks 14th (.438).
• BU is coming off a 72-61 win at Florida, improving to a league-best 6-1 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
• BU has trailed for only 13% of game time over its last 12 games (63:36 of 480:00), but more than half of that time (30:13) came in a comeback from 12 down to win at Oklahoma State on Jan. 18.
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 10 of 18 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 17 of 18 opponents below 70 points.
• BU has held 4 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, matching the program record for a season (4 in 2013 & 2017). Entering 2020, BU held teams to 55 or fewer 23 times in the Big 12's first 23 seasons.
• BU and KU are 3-0 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 4-20.
• BU is No. 1 in the NET rankings with win 4 top-15 NET wins: vs. No. 4 (road), No. 9, No. 10, No. 14.
• BU is the only team with 2 players on the Naismith Defensive POY Midseason Team (Vital & Mitchell).
• Baylor is 37-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (48-27).
• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 75-7 this year and all four are top-12 ranked (No. 1 MBB, No. 1 WBB, No. 3 VB, No. 12 FB).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (333-210).
• Baylor is playing its 230th 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 227 of 409 games.
• This is the 7th straight year BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 5 this year).

QUICK HITS
• 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 is 43-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (13-1 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (161-20).
• BU is 105-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (17-1 this season).
• Baylor is 208-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 208 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (252).
• Baylor is 299-141 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 8 top-10 teams in the last 4 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).
• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 921 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).
• 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
• Wednesday is the 40th series meeting. Baylor has won 9 of the last 12 meetings, but trails 19-20 in the series.
• The home team has won 29 of 34 campus site games in the all-time series, and BU is 1-4 vs. ISU at neutral sites.
• Baylor has won 7 straight home games vs. Iowa State and 13 of 14 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 regular-season series four times (2012, 2014, 2017, 2018), BU has swept three times (2015, 2016, 2019) and ISU has swept once (2013).
• Baylor is looking to sweep the regular-season series for the 4th time in the last 6 seasons (2015, 2016, 2019).

LAST TIME VS. IOWA STATE
• Baylor overcame a slow start to secure a 68-55 win over Iowa State in Waco on Jan. 15. The win extended Baylor's streak to 13 straight wins, and it improved Baylor to 4-0 in Big 12 play for the 4th time in program history.
• BU held all 10 Iowa State players to single-digit scoring, while Jared Butler's 19 points led a group of four Bears who reached double-figures. Freddie Gillespie had his 6th double-double of the year with 14 points and 11 boards.
• Iowa State's 55 points were its second-fewest this season and its fewest away from home since 2013.

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

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