No. 10 Baylor MBB Hits Road to Kansas State

Tue Feb 8 14:15:48 CST 2022

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#10/10 BAYLOR BEARS (19-4, 7-3)
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Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1756> (Butler, 1993)

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#10/10 BAYLOR (19-4, 7-3) at KANSAS STATE (12-10, 4-6)
Feb. 9, 2022 • 7:00 p.m. CT
Manhattan, Kan. • Bramlage Coliseum (12,528)

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KANSAS STATE WILDCATS (12-10, 4-6)
Location: Manhattan, Kan.
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Bruce Webber
 (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978)

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STORYLINES

• No. 10 Baylor heads back on the road for Wednesday's 7 p.m. CT game at Kansas State.

• Wednesday is the 48th all-time meeting. Baylor leads 24-23, including 23-18 in the Big 12 era.

• Baylor is 10-12 all-time in Manhattan and looks to win a 3rd-straight in Manhattan for the first time.

• BU has out-scored K-State 355-245 in 4 games over the last 2 seasons (average of 89-61).

• Baylor has won all 6 games vs. K-State over the last 3 seasons, its longest winning streak in series history.

• BU has held K-State below 70 points while scoring 73+ points in each of the last 6 meetings.

• BU hasn't trailed by more than 3 points in any of the 6 games against K-State over the last 3 seasons.

• The Bears have led for 96% of game time (229:49 of 240:00) and trailed for only 1% (3:05 of 240:00) in the last 6 meetings vs. K-State. BU led wire-to-wire in 4 of those 6 meetings.

• BU is tied for the nation's lead with 7 Quad 1 wins (tied with Auburn, Kansas, Marquette, Wisconsin).

• BU is 34-2 vs. unranked teams over the last 2 seasons (+21.6 avg margin) with all wins by 4+ points.

• Baylor is 4-1 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 16-28.

• Baylor is 18-4 in Big 12 road games over the last 3 seasons (rest of league is 75-127 in B12 road games).

• BU has won 14 of its last 16 games away from home – 9-0 neutral, 5-2 road.

• Baylor's 19-4 record is its lowest winning percentage through 23 games since 2018-19. BU was 22-1 in both 2020 & 2021. The Bears are a combined 63-6 through their first 23 games over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor needs one more win to record the 13th 20-win season in the last 15 years. Prior to that, BU recorded only three 20-win seasons in the first 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).

• BU has been 7-2 or better midway through Big 12 play in 3-straight seasons (only once previously – 2012).

• BU is playing its 301st game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2,197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since January 2010, BU has been ranked in 286 of 423 games.

• Baylor's 35-7 Big 12 Conference record over the last 3 seasons is the best of any Power-5 team.

• Baylor's 47-6 record over the last 2 seasons is the nation's best among Power-5 teams, and the Bears' 73-10 record over the last 3 seasons is 2nd-best nationally, trailing only Gonzaga (81-5).

• BU is 16-0 this season when winning points off turnovers and 15-0 when winning points in the paint.

• Baylor is the nation's only team ranked top-40 in scoring offense (39th) and scoring defense (25th).

• Baylor ranks top-25 nationally in scoring margin (8th, +15.6), steals (10th, 9.6), assists (15th, 16.9), offensive rebounds (13th, 13.3), turnovers forced (18th, 17.1), turnover margin (21st, +4.0), rebounding margin (24th, +6.7), adj. offensive efficiency (9th, 117.5) and adj. defensive efficiency (17th, 90.9).

• Over the last 3 seasons, Baylor is 61-3 when leading at the half and 73-5 when taking a 2nd-half lead.

• BU has forced 10+ turnovers in 31-straight games, including 12+ TOs in 22 of 23 games this season.

• Baylor is on a school-record streak of 43-straight weeks top-10 ranked (top-5 ranked in 38 of those).

• BU is on a school-record streak of 51-straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 (previous record was 25). It's the nation's 3rd-longest active streak behind Gonzaga (109) and Villanova (54).

• Baylor has been ranked in all 25 spots in the AP Top 25 at some point in the last 7 years.

QUICK HITS

• Baylor has been No. 1 ranked in 4 of the last 6 seasons (Gonzaga, Duke and Kansas are only others).

• Baylor and Kansas are the only Power-5 schools to win 18+ games every year since 2008.

• BU ranks 4th nationally in KenPom's offensive rebound pct (37.7), its 8th-straight year ranked top-10.

• Baylor has built leads of 10+ points in 26 of 29 games since the start of the 2021 NCAA Tournament (25-4 record).

• BU has built double-digit leads in 71 of 83 games over the last 3 seasons (47 of 53 last 2 seasons).

• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 19th season at Baylor with a school-record 389 career victories, including a 17-8 mark in NCAA Tournaments, which is the 7th-best mark among active coaches.

• Drew has swept AP and coaches' Big 12 Coach of the Year honors each of the last two seasons.

• For a second-straight season, Baylor was one of the nation's final two undefeated teams.

• BU went 305 days between losses, the longest in program history (March 12, 2021 – Jan. 11, 2022).

• BU had a 36-game non-conference winning streak with 813 days between losses (Nov. 8, 2019 – Jan. 29, 2022).

• BU went 1,038 days without consecutive losses before dropping back-to-back games Jan. 11 and Jan. 15.

• Baylor became the first program to start consecutive seasons 15-0 since Syracuse in 2010-11 and 2011-12.

• Baylor's streak of 9 consecutive postseasons is tied as the nation's 7th-longest active streak.

• Baylor is 91-6 when leading at halftime over the last 5 seasons (61-3 over last 3 seasons, 24-0 last season).

• Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (208-22).

• BU is 73-5 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game over the last 3 seasons.

• Baylor is 264-103 over the last 10+ seasons, averaging 24.5 wins per season since 2011-12.

• Baylor's 264 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (304).

• Baylor is 355-150 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.

• Five of Baylor's players have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Two after transferring to BU (Flagler, Tchamwa Tchatchoua), one before transferring (Bonner) and two as freshmen — Turner and Langston Love.

• Ten of Baylor's 11 starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (16 of last 17 seasons).

• Baylor is 1 of 10 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (7 NCAAs, 2 NITs).

• Baylor has the nation's 9th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 985 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).

• Baylor has won 8 tournament titles under Drew – 2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 & 2021 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic, 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational and 2021 NCAA Championship.

NOTABLE STREAKS

• Baylor has won 6-straight games against Kansas State, which is the Bears' longest winning streak in series history and ties the longest streak by either team (K-State won 6-straight in 2017-19).

• Baylor has taken a lead in 109-consecutive games (last wire-to-wire loss Dec. 1, 2018 at Wichita State).

• BU has won 58-straight when shooting a higher percentage than its opponent (last loss March 2, 2019 at K-State).

• Baylor has won 35-straight games when shooting 50% or higher (last loss March 18, 2018 vs. Mississippi State).

• Baylor has won 35-straight games when scoring 80+ points (last loss Jan. 5, 2019 vs. TCU).

• Baylor has had at least 3 players make 3-pointers in 26-consecutive games (last on March 27, 2021 vs. Villanova).

• Baylor has made 3 or more 3-pointers in 112-consecutive games (last on Nov. 23, 2018 vs. Ole Miss).

• Baylor has won 9-consecutive neutral-site games – (last loss Nov. 8, 2019 vs. Washington in Alaska).

• Baylor has won 21-consecutive non-conference home games (last loss Dec. 18, 2018 vs. SFA).
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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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