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No. 20/21 Baylor (1-1) vs. Jackson State (1-1) Nov. 20, 2015 | 7:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: FSSW-Plus | FS-Wisconsin Radio: ESPN Central Texas

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MEDIA INFORMATION Date Friday, Nov. 20 | 7:00 p.m. CT Location Waco, Texas; Ferrell Center (10,284) Tickets Purchase Tickets Online TV FSSW-Plus & FS Wisconsin TV Talent John Morris (pxp), Jim Haller (color) Web Video BaylorBears.com Satellite Radio Sirius 81/XM 81 BU Radio ESPN Central Texas BU Talent Pat Nunley (pxp), Nick Joos (color) Stats Game Notes Baylor | Jackson State Social Media @BaylorMBB BAYLOR BEARS Record 1-1 Ranking 20 (AP), 21 (Coaches) Head Coach Scott Drew Career: 249-172 (14th season) BU Record: 229-161 (13th season) JACKSON STATE TIGERS Record 1-1 Ranking nr (AP), nr (Coaches) Head Coach Wayne Brent Career: 23-42 (3rd season) JSU Record: 23-42 (3rd season)

STORYLINES
- Baylor's game against Jackson State will be televised onà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € FOXà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Sports Southwest-Plus.
- Friday will mark the 7th series meeting. Baylor is 6-0 vs.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € JSU with a 27.7-point average margin of victory.
- Baylor has won 25 consecutive non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.
- Baylor is No. 20 in the AP Top 25 Poll and has now been ranked No. 22 or better in 14 consecutive AP polls.
- Baylor has been ranked in the AP Preseasonà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Poll in 5 of the last 6 seasons -- last year was the lone exception.
- Baylor is 45-6 in November/December games when ranked in the AP poll. BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € is 18-17 in road games when ranked.
- Baylor was the only major conference team to hold every opponent under 75 points last season, and the Bears have gone 47 consecutive games without allowing 75 points.
- Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers has 858 career rebounds and needs 8 more to pass Kevinà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Rogers for 3rd on Baylor's all-time list.
- Taureanà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince has scored in double figures in 19 of the last 20 games, averaging 15.3 ppg in that stretch.
- Baylor is 83-11 when leading at the half over the last four seasons, including 21-7 last season.
- BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € has won 38% of its games (21-34) when tied or trailing at half since 2011-12, including 3-3 last season.
- Baylor is 37-22 in games decided by 5 or fewer points and 10-2 in overtime games since 2008-09.
- Baylor is 37-14 in its last 51 games dating back to Feb. 12, 2014. Twelve of the 14 losses have been away from home (7 road, 5 neutral) and nine losses have been against ranked teams.
- Baylor is 195-92 (24 wins per season) over the last 8-plus seasons and has made 7 postseason appearancesà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (NCAA Tournament -- 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015; NIT -- 2009, 2013).
- Baylor made back-to-back NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tournaments for the first time in program history in 2014 and 2015.
- BU has won 20+ games in 7 of the last 8 years. BU had only three 20-win seasons prior to Scott Drew's arrival.
- Drew is coaching his 391st game at Baylor (229-161). His .587 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 60+ games, and his teams have a .679 winning percentage since 2007-08.
- Baylor is 47-0 all-time against current Southwestern Athletic Conferenceà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € teams.
- Baylor's 17-5 postseason record since 2009 is the nation's 4th-best among teams with 3+ NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € appearances.
- Baylor is one of only 14 schools nationally to play in the Sweet 16 in 3 of the last 6 seasons.
- All 31 of Baylor's regular-season games will be televised this season, including 21 games on the ESPNà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € family of networks. The Jackson State game will be Baylor's 140th consecutive televised contest.
- Baylor was picked 5th in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, behind Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Texas.
- Baylor is one of two Big 12 schools to be ranked in each of the last 9 seasons (Kansas).
- Drew is tied with Kansas' Bill Self as the longest tenured head coach in the Big 12 Conference (13th seasons).
- Baylor has more Big 12 wins in the last 7 seasons (73-63) than its first 11 years in the league combined (45-131).
- Baylor is 28-12 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last seven seasons.
- Baylor is one of four schools nationally ranked by the AP in football and men's and women's basketball, joining à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Michiganà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma.
- Baylor is 293-69 in football and men's and women's basketball since 2011-12, the nation's best record in that span.
- Baylor's 5 NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft picks in the last 4 years ranks 8th nationally behind Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse, Kansas, Arizona, North Carolina and UCLA.
- BU is 86-6 under Drew when holding teams under 60 points, including a 12-2 mark last season.
- Baylor has the Big 12's 2nd-longest active streak (16th-longest nationally) with at least one 3-point FG made in 768 consecutive games. The last time BU didn't make a 3-pointer was Feb. 21, 1990, a win vs.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Texas Tech.

SERIES HISTORY
- Friday's game will be the seventh series meeting. Baylor has won all six games in the series by at least 14 points.
- Baylor has an average margin of victory of 27.7 points in its six previous games against Jackson State.
- BU's last games vs. JSU was Nov. 11, 2012, a 78-47 win. Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers made his career-first start in that game, posting 13 points and 10 rebounds in 27 minutes. Taurean Prince had 13 points and 6 rebounds in 16 minutes.

PICKED FIFTH IN BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL
- Baylor was picked to finish fifth in the 2016 Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll in a vote by the league's head coaches in October. It's the fifth time in the last six seasons BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € has been picked in the top half of the league.
- In the last nine seasons, BU has been picked 9th in 2007-08 (NCAA Tournament), 3rd in 2008-09 (NIT runner-up), 10th in 2009-10 (Elite Eight), 4th in 2010-11, 3rd in 2011-12 (Elite Eight), 2nd in 2012-13 (NITà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € champions), 3rd in 2013-14 (Sweet 16), t-6th in 2014-15 (NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tournament) and 5th (2015-16).

UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
- Baylor has enjoyed unprecedented success over the last seven seasons under 13th-year head coach Scott Drew. Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 195-92 (24 wins per season) and has made seven postseason appearancesà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (NCAA -- 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; NITà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € -- 2009, 2013) and posted seven 20-win seasons.
- Prior to 2007-08, Baylor won only 135 games in the first 11 seasons of the Big 12 era (12.3 wins per season).
- Baylor has made 14 postseason appearances (seven under Drew) and won 20+ games just 10 times (seven under Drew) in the program's first 109 seasons.

RANKED IN NINE STRAIGHT SEASONS
- Baylor joins Kansas as the only two Big 12 Conference schools to be ranked in each of the last nine seasons.
- Baylor has been ranked for at least three weeks in each of the last eight seasons (2008-09 through 2014-15), including 13 consecutive weekly polls entering the 2015-16 season.
- Baylor is one of 13 schools nationally to be ranked in each of the last nine seasons.

ONE OF FOUR RANKED IN FB, MBB AND WBB
- Baylor, Michigan State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma are the only schools ranked by the AP in football, men's and women's basketball.
- Baylor men's basketball is ranked No. 20, football is No. 10 and women's basketball is No. 5.
- Baylor, Louisville and Michigan State were the only teams to finish the 2014-15 academic year ranked in the final AP Polls for all three sports.

2ND-MOST WINS IN BIG 12 SINCE 2011-12
- Baylor is 104-45 since 2011-12, which trails only Kansas (116-33) for most wins by a Big 12 team in that span.
- Iowa State (101-40) is 3rd, Oklahoma State (90-54) is 4th, Kansas State (86-49) is 5th, Oklahoma (83-49) is 6th, Texas (80-58) is 7th, West Virginia (76-59) is 8th, TCU (57-73) is 9th and Texas Tech (47-80) is 10th.

PRINCE IN DOUBLE FIGURES IN 19 OF 20
- Taureanà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince has scored in double figures in 19 of the last 20 games, averaging 15.3 ppg during that span.
- Prince has scored 20-plus points six times in those 20 games, with all six of those games inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Big 12 play.
- Since Jan. 17, his only game not scoring 10+ points was the 2015 Big 12 Championship semifinals vs. Kansas.

GATHERS CHASING REBOUNDING RECORD
- Rico Gathers ranks 4th in Baylor history with 858 career rebounds, just 57 back of Brian Skinner's school record of 915 boards. At his current career average, he'll need 8 more games to break the record.
- Gathers needs 8 rebounds to pass Kevin Rogers (865) for 3rd and 20 boards to pass Jerry Mallett for 2nd place.
- Gathers and Prince are in a race to become Baylor's 29th player to reach 1,000 career points. Gathers needs 124 more points and Prince needs 199 more. The first one to reach 1,000 will be the 11th of the Scott Drew era.

ELITE OFFENSIVE EFFICIENCY
- Baylor's offense has ranked among the nation's top 20 in KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency metric in 7 of the last 8 seasons entering 2015-16, joining Duke as the only teams to make that claim.
- Through two games this season,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Baylor is No. 11 nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency.
- Baylor was No. 18 in 2014-15, No. 9 in 2013-14, No. 14 in 2012-13, No. 8 in 2011-12, No. 3 in 2009-10, No. 11 in 2008-09 and No. 11 in 2007-08.
- Most times ranked inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € nation's top-20 from 2007-08--2014-15: Duke-8, Baylor-7, Arizona-5, Kansas-5, Kentucky-4, Northà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Carolina-4, Ohioà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State-4.

HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS
- Baylor has won 88% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12. The Bears are 83-11 when leading at the break in that stretch (1-0 in 2015-16, 21-7 in 2014-15, 18-2 in 2013-14, 17-1 in 2012-13 and 26-1 in 2011-12).
- BU has won 38% of games in which its been tied or trailing at the half since 2011-12, going 21-34 in those.
- BU has led at halftime in 94 of 149 games over the last four-plus seasons. With wins in 83 of those 94 games, and victories in 21 of 55 games it has trailed or been tied at the half, Baylor is 104-45 since 2011-12.

NATION'S BEST IN THREE MAJORS SPORTS OVER LAST FIVE SEASONS
- Since 2011-12, Baylor has the nation's most combined wins across football and men's and women's basketball.
- The Bears are 293-69 in that span, giving Baylor 75 more wins than any other Big 12 team, and 6 more than the next closest team nationally (Notre Dame at 287-71).

ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
- Scott Drew holds Baylor's school record with 229 career wins as head coach.
- Drew's .588 winning percentage is the best ever by a Baylor coach with 60+ games at the helm.

DREW AMONG NATION'S ELITE
- Head coach Scott Drew is the youngest of 11 coaches nationally to take his current program to three Sweet 16 appearances in the last six seasons.
- Drew (45) is joined by Xavier's Chris Mack (45), Arizona's Sean Miller (46), Ohio State's Thad Matta (48), Kansas' Bill Self (52), Kentucky's John Calipari (56), Michigan State's Tom Izzo (60), Louisville's Rick Pitino (63), Wisconsin's Bo Ryan (67), Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (68) and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim (70).

FOUR NEWCOMERS
- Baylor welcomes four newcomers to its 2015-16 roster, including three prep standouts and one JuCo transfer.
- BU added three guards from the high school ranks -- Jake Lindsey (Salt Lake City, Utah), King McClure (Ovilla, Texas) and Wendellà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Mitchell (Rockdale, Texas).
- Additionally, the Bears added 7-footer Jo Acuil (Melbourne,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Australia) out of Neosho Community College.

BAYLOR BASKETBALL ON THE RADIO
- Baylor basketball is aired live via the Baylor-IMG College Radio Network on ESPNà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Central Texas and flagship station 1660AM ESPN Radio (KRZI) in Waco and worldwide on Sirius XM Radio. All games are broadcast by the "Voice of the Bears" John Morris and former Baylor basketball standout Pat Nunley. Morris is in his 28th year doing Baylor broadcasts, while Nunley is in his 33rd season as color analyst.
- The radio call from all of Baylor's games can be heard live on the Internet at www.BaylorBears.com.

BEARS ADD PAIR OF 2016 SIGNEES
- Baylor signed a pair of highly-rated 2016 prospects during the early signing period.
- The Bears inked prep forward Mark Vital (Lake Charles,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € La.) and JuCo forward Nuni Omot (Mahtomedi, Minn.).
- Vital is a 6-foot-6, 200-pound forward, who is ranked as high as No. 55 nationally by 247Sports.com. He began his prep career at Washington-Marion HS inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Lake Charles and currently attends Dallas'à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Advanced Preparatory International.
- Omot is a 6-foot-9, 205-pound forward, who is ranked the No. 1 JuCo prospect at his position. He began his collegiate career at DII Concordia in St. Paul, Minn., and is currently plays at Indian Hills CCà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € in Ottumwa, Iowa.

PRODUCING PROFESSIONALS
- In the Scott Drew era, 20 former players have gone on to play professional basketball -- either in the NBA, NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Development League or internationally.
- Fourteen former Baylor players are currently playing professionally -- Quincy Acy (NBA, Sacramento Kings), Tweety Carter (Lithuania), Kenny Chery (Hungary), LaceDarius Dunn (Kosovo), Brady Heslip (Italy), Pierre Jacksonà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (NBA, Philadelphia 76ers), Coryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Jefferson (NBA,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Phoenix Suns), Curtis Jerrells (Russia), Anthony Jones (Hungary), Perry Jones III (NBA, free agent), Quincy Miller (NBA, free agent), Royce O'Neale (Germany), Ekpe Udoh (Turkey) and A.J.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Walton (Poland).
- Other former players to have gone on to play professionally include Aaron Bruce (Australia), Henry Dugat (Mexico), Kevin Rogers (Greece), Harvey Thomas (D-League), Terranceà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Thomas (D-League, Mexico, Turkey) and Tommy Swanson (England, France, Japan).

MEASURABLES
- Johnathan Motley has Baylor's longest wingspan at 7'3.5", followed by Jo Acuil at 7'3", Ishmail Wainright at 7'1.5", Taureanà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince at 6'11.5", Terry Maston at 6'11" and Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers at 6'10.5".
- John Heard has Baylor's highest vertical jump at 39.5", followed by Lester Medford and Alà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Freeman at 37". Motley's 36" vertical is best among big men, followed by Prince, Gathers and Maston at 34.5".
- Gathers has the longest hands at 10.5", followed by Maston, Acuil and Prince at 9".
- Jake Lindsey has the team's widest hands at 10.25", followed by Motley and Wainright at 9.5".
- Wendell Mitchell recorded the fastest NBA Sprint Test at 3.01, followed by Prince and Manu Lecomte at 3.02.

UP NEXT
- Baylor continues its stretch of six consecutive home games with Monday's 7 p.m. tipoff vs. Savannah State.
- Monday's game will be televised on FOXà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Sports Southwest.

After giving up 28 points on 18 turnovers in Monday's 74-67 loss at 25th-ranked Oregon, the No. 20 Baylor Bears (1-1) will try to bounce back with a matchup against Jackson State (1-1) at 7 p.m. Friday to kick off a six-game home stand.

While sophomore guard Al Freeman hit four 3-pointers and scored a game-high 22 points to help the Bears rally from a 15-point second-half deficit against Oregon, senior point guard Lester Medford and junior wing Ishmail Wainright combined for 11 turnovers and 2-of-12 shooting from the floor.

"If we were seeing this every day in practice, I would be very concerned," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "Lester will bounce back and he'll learn from it. . . . We've taken good care of the basketball in our two scrimmages against Houston and Gonzaga, so (I'm) a little surprised we were as bad as we were with the turnovers (against Oregon). A lot of them were mental mistakes and our errors, playing in a hostile environment and learning how to handle that."

It was Freeman and the bench that helped Baylor make a game of it, with the Bears twice pulling within three in the last 3 ½ minutes and having a chance to tie it on a King McClure 3-pointer. Sophomore forward Johnathan Motley came off the bench to hit 5-of-7 shots from the field and finished with 17 points and seven rebounds in 23 minutes.

"A lot of times when you go to the bench, you normally lose scoring punch," Drew said. "We've always been blessed to have deep teams. If it's LaceDarius Dunn or Taurean Prince or J-Mot, we've always been able to bring people off the bench that have given us scoring punch and allowed us to extend leads and change the momentum of games."

Prince played that role last season, earning Big 12 and National Sixth Man of the Year honors. But the 6-8 senior has struggled in the first two games, hitting just 3-of-11 from 3-point range and 29.2 percent overall.

"Right now, he's just trying to find that rhythm," said 6-8 senior forward Rico Gathers, who is averaging 13.5 points and 5.5 rebounds. "Once he gets it going, there's no stopping him."

Since defenses are keying on him more this season, Prince has to "be more patient to get those looks," Drew said.

"From Oregon, he'd be the first to tell you the shot selection wasn't good," Drew said. "When he takes quality shots, he's going to shoot a high percentage."

Freeman and Motely are the team's leading scorers through the first two games with 16.5 and 14.5 averages, respectively, while Wainright has hauled down a team-high 9.0 rebounds per game.

Jackson State opened with an 80-52 loss at Oregon before bouncing back to knock off Southern Miss, 78-60, on the road Tuesday night.

Junior guard Javares Brent came off the bench to drain six 3-pointers and score a game-high 22 points against the Golden Eagles. Sophomore guard Paris Collins, who played with Prince at Earl Warren High School in San Antonio, leads the Tigers with 18 points per game and is 5-of-13 from 3-point range.

"The great thing about college basketball is you look at the parity," Drew said. "They were up 25 against Southern Miss and won by 18. (That's a) very good showing. No matter what night you turn on the TV, there are always upsets, especially early in the year. And that's part of the fun time. We need to be better taking care of the basketball and with our shot selection, and things will be better for us."

Part of the Global Sports Shootout, Friday's game will be broadcast by FOX Sports Southwest-Plus and begins a stretch of six home games in the next 16 days.