No. 2 Baylor MBB Hosts K-State for 94th Anniversary Immortal Ten Game

Tue Jan 26 17:41:41 CST 2021

Game notes and extended stats package attached.

BAYLOR (14-0, 7-0) vs. KANSAS STATE (5-11, 1-7)
Jan. 27, 2021 • 8 p.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)
WATCH: ESPN2
Talent: Rich Hollenberg (pxp), Chris Spatola (analyst)

LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com

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

2/2 BAYLOR BEARS (14-0, 7-0)
Location: Waco, Texas
Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993)

KANSAS STATE WILDCATS (5-11, 1-7))
Location: Manhattan, Kan.
Head Coach: Bruce Weber (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978)

STORY LINES
• No. 2 Baylor returns home to host K-State Wednesday in the 94th anniversary Immortal Ten Game.
• Baylor opened Big 12 play with a 100-69 win at K-State on Dec. 19, its 3rd-straight win vs. K-State. The Bears became the first team since 1992 to score 100 points in Manhattan.
• BU swept the season series vs. K-State last season, snapping a 6-game series losing streak. BU looks to sweep K-State in consecutive seasons for the first time since the series became home-and-home in 2012.
• BU hasn't trailed in any of its last 3 games vs. K-State and led by at least 16 points in all 3 games.
• Baylor is 1 of 4 undefeated teams (min. 5 gms) and is the last remaining undefeated Power-5 team.
• BU leads the nation in scoring margin (+24.1) and is top-10 nationally in 3FG% (3rd, 42.6), steals (5th, 9.6), scoring (6th, 86.1), effective FG% (5th, 58.4), offensive rebound pct. (5th, 38.3), assists (9th, 18.3), turnover margin (5th, +6.2), turnovers forced (6th, 18.8) and defensive turnover pct. (4th, 26.5).
• Baylor is the nation's only team to win every game by 8+ points this season.
• BU is the nation's only team top-5 ranked in adjusted offensive (3rd) and defensive (1st) efficiency.
• BU has led by at least 10 points in every game this season and has led by 13+ at halftime in 9 of 14.
• Baylor faced its largest deficit of the season (34-25) in Saturday's win at Oklahoma State, but the Bears out-scored OSU 56-32 after that. BU has trailed for only 44:20 of 560 minutes (7.9%) this season.
• BU can tie the 2nd-longest winning streak to start a season in school history (17 in 2012, 15 in 2017).
• BU looks to start 8-0 in Big 12 play for the 2nd time in program history (first was 13-0 start last season).
• Baylor's 22-3 record in Big 12 play over the last 2 seasons is the league's best record in that span.
• Baylor is 20-1 at home over the last 2 seasons, with the lone loss by 3 points to Kansas on 2/22/20.
• Jared Butler was named National Player of the Week after averaging 26.0 points and 7.0 assists in wins vs. Kansas and at Oklahoma State. He shot 13-of-16 (81.3%) from 3-point range last week.
• Baylor is 40-4 since MaCio Teague and Davion Mitchell became eligible at the start of 2019-20.
• BU's bench is out-scoring opposing benches 33-15 on average and has scored 33+ points in 9 games.
• Five Bears are shooting 40% on 3FGs: Butler (49), Flagler (43), Cryer (43), Mitchell (42) & Mayer (41).
• Three members of the BU bench average 8+ ppg – Flagler (10.1), Tchatchoua (8.4) and Mayer (7.9).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 18th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (356-213).
• Baylor is playing its 256th 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 253 of 435 games.
• Baylor has been top-5 ranked for 21-straight weeks. BU was top-5 for 12 weeks all-time prior to this streak.
• BU's streak of 30-straight AP polls ranked is the nation's 4th-longest active streak and longest in BU history.
• Baylor has led by at least 5 points in all 44 games over the last 2 seasons (double-digit lead in 38 of 43).
• Baylor's defense has held 6 of its last 11 opponents to season-lows in points-per-possession.
• BU's defense has forced 14+ TOs in 10 of its last 11 games, including 6 games with 20+ TOs forced.
• Baylor joins Duke, Gonzaga and Kansas as the only programs ranked No. 1 in 3 of the last 5 seasons.
• BU is 1 of 5 Power-5 schools (Duke, Kentucky, UNC, Michigan St.) to win 18+ every year since 2008.

IMMORTAL TEN GAME
• BU will honor the 94th anniversary of the 1927 Immortal Ten team. That season was canceled after the team bus was hit by a train while traveling to Austin, killing 10 of 22 players, coaches and fans in the Baylor travel party.
• BU players will wear the last names of the Immortal Ten on the backs of their jerseys.

QUICK HITS
• Baylor's 14-game winning streak is 4th-longest in program history (23 in 2020, 17 in 2012, 15 in 2017).
• BU was picked to win the Big 12 in the league's preseason coaches' poll for the first time.
• Baylor is 63-5 when leading at halftime over the last 4 seasons (33-2 over last 2 seasons, 12-0 this season).
• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (181-21).
• BU is 128-23 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (40-3 last 2 seasons).
• 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 231-97 over the last 10 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2011-12.
• Baylor's 231 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (273).
• Baylor is 322-144 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.
• 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 946 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
• Wednesday is the 45th all-time meeting. K-State leads the series 23-21, but BU leads 20-18 in the Big 12 era.
• Baylor hasn't trailed in any of the last 3 meetings and is looking to tie its longest winning streak in the series.
• Since Big 12 double round-robin play began in 2012, BU has swept the season series three times (2014, 2016, 2020) and K-State has swept three times (2013, 2018, 2019). The teams split in 2012, 2015 and 2017.
• The Bears won 73-67 in Manhattan and 85-66 in Waco last season.
• BU opened 2021 Big 12 play with a 100-69 victory at Kansas State on Dec. 19.

LAST TIME VS. KANSAS STATE
• Despite going 9 days without a game and having only two days of practice before its Big 12 opener at Kansas State, BU rolled to a 100-69 victory on Dec. 19, becoming the first team to score 100 in Manhattan since 1992.
• Two Baylor guards posted double-doubles, with MaCio Teague's 23 points and 10 rebounds and Jared Butler's 14 points and career-high 13 assists. Davion Mitchell added a career-high 20 points.
• Butler's 13 assists were the most in any Big 12 Conference game since Trae Young had 14 at Texas in 2018.

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

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