No. 2 Baylor MBB Returns to Big 12 Action at Iowa State

Fri Jan 1 14:24:47 CST 2021

Complete game notes attached. Media materials available for download here: http://baylorbea.rs/MediaMBB

BAYLOR (8-0, 1-0) at IOWA STATE (2-4, 0-2)
Jan. 2, 2021 • Noon CT
Ames, Iowa • Hilton Coliseum (14, 356)
2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (8-0, 1-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)

NR/NR IOWA STATE CYCLONES (2-4, 0-2)
Location: Ames, Iowa
Head Coach: Steve Prohm (Alabama, 1997)

WATCH: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
Talent: Chuckie Kempf (pxp), Robbie Hummel (analyst)

LISTEN: Baylor Sports Network | ESPN Central Texas
Talent: John Morris (pxp) and Mark Wible (analyst)

LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com

STORY LINES
• No. 2 Baylor returns to Big 12 play with Saturday's noon CT game at Iowa State on ESPN+.
• Wednesday is the 41st series meeting, and the home team has won 29 of 35 campus-site games.
• Baylor is 10-3 against Iowa State since 2015 and 16-13 vs. ISU during the 18-year Scott Drew era.
• Baylor lost its first 12 trips to Ames, but BU is 4-2 in Ames since getting its first win at Hilton in 2015.
• Baylor is the Big 12's final undefeated team. BU leads the league in scoring (95.0), scoring margin (+32.8), field goal pct. (.521), 3-point pct. (.459), 3-pointers made (11.9), steals (9.8), assists (22.1),
assist-to-turnover ratio (1.92), offensive rebound percentage (.418) and rebounding margin (+10.1).
• Baylor has scored 80+ points in 8 straight games, which is the 2nd-longest streak in school history behind only the 1984-85 season, when BU scored 80+ points in its first 11 games.
• Baylor has scored 90+ in 4-straight games for the first time since 1984; BU has never gone 5-straight.
• Baylor has won 8 consecutive games by double-digits, matching the school record set when the Bears started the 2011-12 season with 8-consecutive double-digit wins.
• Baylor is the nation's only team to win every game by 13+ points this season (min. 3 games played).
• BU has built a lead of at least 16 points in every game this season and has won 7 of 8 by 25+ points.
• BU is looking to start a season 9-0 for the first time since starting 15-0 on its way to No. 1 in 2016-17.
• Baylor leads the nation in 3-point percentage (.459) and assists per game (22.1).
• The Bears rank 2nd nationally in AST-to-TO ratio (1.92), 2nd in scoring margin (+32.8), 3rd in scoring (95.0), 5th in 3-pointers made (11.9/gm), 6th in turnover margin (+8.4) and 13th in steals (9.8/gm).
• Baylor's bench has 33+ points in every game and is out-scoring opposing benches 43-20 on average.
• Four members of the BU bench average 8+ ppg – Flagler (13), Tchatchoua (10), Mayer (10), Cryer (8).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 18th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (350-213).
• With a win, Drew would tie his father Homer Drew's career Division I wins total (371 in 22 years at Valpo).
• Baylor is playing its 250th 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 247 of 429 games.
• Baylor has been top-5 ranked for 17-straight weeks. BU was top-5 for 12 weeks all-time prior to this streak.
• BU's streak of 26-straight AP polls ranked is the nation's 5th-longest active streak and longest in BU history.
• Baylor's defense forced 15+ turnovers in 23 of 38 games since the start of the 2019-20 season.
• BU became the first team since 1992 to score 100 points in Manhattan in the Dec. 19 win at K-State.
• Baylor has led by at least 5 points in all 38 games since the start of 2019-20 (double-digit lead in 32 of 38).
• Baylor returned four All-Big 12 players from a 2019-20 team which went 26-4 and spent five weeks ranked No. 1 nationally. The Bears finished last season ranked No. 4 in the coaches poll (No. 5 in AP).
• Baylor is 42-40 in Big 12 road games over the last 10 seasons, second-best behind Kansas (55-27).
• Baylor signed the highest-ranked recruiting class in program history (No. 4) earlier this month. BU inked 5-star Kendall Brown, 4-star Langston Love and 4-star Jeremy Sochan for the 2021-22 season.
• BU has advanced to 8 consecutive postseasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.

QUICK HITS
• BU was picked to win the Big 12 in the league's preseason coaches' poll for the first time.
• Baylor is 59-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons since 2017-18 (21-2 in 2019-20, 8-0 this season).
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (177-21).
• BU is 122-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (34-3 since 2019-20).
• Baylor's 23-game winning streak last season was the longest ever by a Big 12 team (previously 22 by 1996-97 KU).
• BU's 13-game conference winning streak last year 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 225-97 over the last 10 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
• Baylor's 225 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (272).
• Baylor is 316-144 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• Eight of Baylor's players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Four after transferring to BU – Flagler, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and four as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner, Vital and Dainja.
• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the nation's only teams ranked No. 1 in 3 of the last 5 seasons.
• Nine of Baylor's 10 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (15 of last 16 seasons).
• 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 940 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 30 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday is the 41st series meeting. Baylor has won 10 of the last 13 meetings to even the series at 20-20.
• The home team has won 29 of 35 campus site games in the all-time series, and BU is 1-4 vs. ISU at neutral sites.
• 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 four times (2015, 2016, 2019, 2020) and ISU has swept once (2013).

LAST SEASON VS. IOWA STATE
• Baylor swept the regular-season series for a 4th time in the last 6 seasons (2015, 2016, 2019, 2020).
• Baylor overcame a slow start to secure a 68-55 win over Iowa State in Waco on Jan. 15. Iowa State's 55 points were its fewest away from home since 2013, as Baylor held all 10 Iowa State players to single-digit scoring.
• The Bears completed the season sweep with a 67-53 win in Ames on Jan. 30, holding Iowa State to its fewest points in a Big 12 home game since Feb. 21, 2009. Mark Vital had 8 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.

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