No. 5 Baylor MBB Faces K-State in Big 12 Quarterfinal

Wed Mar 11 23:37:42 CDT 2020

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5/5 BAYLOR BEARS (26-4, 15-3)
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 (PDF)<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2020/3/11/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_31_Big_12.pdf>

BAYLOR (26-4, 15-3) vs. KANSAS STATE (11-21, 3-15)
March 12, 2020 • 6 p.m. CT
Kansas City, Mo. • Sprint Center (18,972)
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NR/NR KANSAS STATE (11-21, 3-15)
Location: Manhattan, Kan.
Head Coach: Bruce Weber (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978)
Roster<https://www.kstatesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats (PDF)<https://www.kstatesports.com/documents/2020/2/1/KS_Season_Stats.pdf> <https://www.kstatesports.com/documents/2020/3/9/32Game_Notes_TCU.pdf>

STORY LINES
• No. 5 Baylor takes on No. 10 K-State in Thursday's quarterfinal at the Big 12 Championship.
• Baylor is a top-2 seed for the first time since the 1988 Southwest Conference Tournament.
• This is the 5th time Baylor has faced K-State at a Big 12 Championship (win in 2012, losses in 2002, 2010, 2017).
• Baylor is looking to advance to the semifinals for a 4th time in the last 7 years (2014, 2015, 2016).
• A win would tie the 3rd-most wins in program history (30 in 2012, 28 in 2010, 27 in 2017).
• Baylor became the first program in Big 12 history to have 5 players named to All-Big 12 teams.
• BU also had the league's Coach of the Year (Scott Drew), Newcomer of the Year (Davion Mitchell), Sixth Man Award winner (Devonte Bandoo) and Most Improved Player (Freddie Gillespie).
• BU players made up 60% of the Big 12 All-Defensive Team (Mark Vital, Mitchell and Gillespie).
• Baylor is guaranteed to finish with its fewest losses since going 18-6 in 1968-69.
• Baylor was No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for 5 straight weeks, tying the longest streak since Kentucky in 2015.
• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 10 straight weeks top-5 ranked (previously 6 straight in 2017).
• BU has led by at least 5 points in every game and has built a double-digit lead in 24 of 30 games, while the Bears have trailed by double-digits 4 times all season (win at OSU, losses vs. KU, at TCU, at WVU).
• Baylor (11-2) has the nation's best record in NET Quadrant 1 games and the 2nd-most Quadrant 1 wins behind only Kansas (12-3). Every other team with 10+ Q1 wins has at least 6 Q1 losses.
• Baylor (6-1) has the nation's best record vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams (min. 3 games).
• Three of Baylor's 4 losses this season have been by 3 points (vs. Washington, vs. Kansas, at TCU).
• Baylor ranks 7th nationally in scoring defense (60.1) and 18th nationally in scoring margin (+11.0).
• Baylor's 60.1 ppg allowed is just shy of the Big 12 scoring defense record (59.4 TAMU in 2007).
• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 19th nationally (.444) and effective FG% defense ranks 15th (.452).
• BU's 26-4 is its best 30-game mark in program history. BU's best 31-game start is 25-6 in 2012 & 2017.
• Baylor's streak of 19 consecutive AP polls ranked is 3rd-longest in program history (all since 2010).
• BU and KU were a combined 16-2 in Big 12 road games, while the rest of the league was 16-56.
• BU held 8 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, the program record for most in a single season.
• BU is No. 5 in the NET with 7 top-25 NET wins: No. 1 (road), No. 13, No. 14, No. 17, No. 19, No. 22 (2x).
• Baylor has the nation's most wins and best record (8-2) vs. NET top-30 ranked teams (min. 3 games).
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 18 of 30 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 26 of 30 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 95-11 this year.
• Baylor is playing its 242nd 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 239 of 421 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 51-5 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (21-2 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (169-21).
• BU is 114-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (26-3 this season).
• Baylor is 217-97 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 217 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (264).
• Baylor is 308-144 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.
• Nine of Baylor's 10 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (15 of last 16 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 933 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).

SIX BAYLOR PLAYERS EARN BIG 12 HONORS
• All five Baylor starters were named to All-Big 12 teams, making BU the first team in the league's 24-year history with five players on All-Big 12 teams. BU also had the league's Sixth Man Award winner.
• Jared Butler became Baylor's first underclassman named first-team All-Conference since Terry Teagle in 1980.
• Freddie Gillespie and MaCio Teague were second team, and Mark Vital and Davion Mitchell were third team.
• Devonte Bandoo was the Sixth Man Award winner, Gillespie was Most Improved Player, Mitchell was Newcomer of the Year and Drew was Coach of the Year.
• Vital, Gillespie and Mitchell made up three-fifths of the league's All-Defensive Team.

DREW RECOGNIZED WITH COACH OF THE YEAR ACCOLADES
• BU head coach Scott Drew has been recognized with conference, regional and national Coach of the Year honors.
• Drew was selected National Coach of the Year by NBC Sports, District VII Coach of the Year by the USBWA and Big 12 Coach of the Year by both the league's coaches and media who cover the league.
• Drew is Baylor's first coach since Jim Haller in 1981 to earn a conference Coach of the Year award.

BUTLER BECOMES 9TH ALL-AMERICAN OF DREW ERA
• Sophomore Jared Butler was named to Sporting News' All-America Third Team, becoming Baylor's 9th All- American in the Drew era and the Bears' first underclassman to earn All-America honors since Terry Teagle in 1980.
• Butler is Baylor's fifth Sporting News All-American, joining Johnathan Motley (2017, second team), Tweety Carter (2010, fourth team), Darryl Middleton (1988, honorable mention) and Micheal Williams (1987, honorable mention).

BAYLOR'S BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
• Baylor is the No. 2 seed for the first time in Big 12 Championship history.
• Baylor is 16-22 all-time in the Big 12 Championship and 12-15 under head coach Scott Drew.
• Baylor is 10-11 all-time at Sprint Center, including a 2-0 mark in the 2017 Hall of Fame Classic
• BU is 8-11 in Big 12 Championship games at Sprint Center and 12-18 in Big 12 Championship games in Kansas City.
• BU is 6-5 in Big 12 Championship play as the higher seed and 10-17 as the lower seed.
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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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