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No. 20/21 Baylor (2-1) vs. Savannah State (3-1) Nov. 23, 2015 | 7:00 p.m. CT Waco, Texas | Ferrell Center (10,284) TV: FOX Sports Net Radio: ESPN Central Texas

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MEDIA INFORMATION Date Monday, Nov. 23 | 7:00 p.m. CT Location Waco, Texas; Ferrell Center (10,284) Tickets Purchase Tickets Online TV FOX Sports Net TV Talent John Morris (pxp), Jim Haller (color) Web Video BaylorBears.com Satellite Radio Sirius 108/XM 108 BU Radio ESPN Central Texas BU Talent Pat Nunley (pxp), Nick Joos (color) Stats Game Notes Baylor | Savannah State Social Media @BaylorMBB BAYLOR BEARS Record 2-1 Ranking 20 (AP), 21 (Coaches) Head Coach Scott Drew Career: 250-172 (14th season) BU Record: 230-161 (13th season) SAVANNAH STATE TIGERS Record 3-1 Ranking nr (AP), nr (Coaches) Head Coach Horace Broadnax Career: 172-269 (16th season) SSU Record: 130-180 (11th season)

STORYLINES
- Baylor's game against Savannah State will be televised nationally onà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € FOXà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Sports Net.
- Monday will mark the 3rd series meeting. Baylor is 2-0 vs. SSU with wins by 36 (2005) and 30 (2014) points.
- Baylor has won 26 consecutive non-conference home games dating back to Dec. 12, 2012.
- Baylor has won 17 straight home games against unranked opponents - last loss to WVU on Jan. 28, 2014.
- Baylor is tied for the Big 12 lead in scoring defense, allowing 63.0 points per game.
- 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 46-6 in November/December games when ranked in the AP poll. BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € is 59-12 in home games when ranked.
- Baylor was the only major conference team to hold every opponent under 75 points last season, and the Bears have gone 48 consecutive games without allowing 75 points.
- Baylor has a .700 winning percentage over the last four-plus seasons (105-45).
- Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers has 874 career rebounds and needs 4 more to pass Jerryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Mallett for 2nd on Baylor's all-time list.
- Taureanà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince has scored in double figures in 20 of the last 21 games, averaging 15.2 ppg in that stretch.
- Al Freeman has posted back-to-back 20-point games - his career high prior to those games was 13 points.
- Sophomores Johnathan Motley and Terryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Maston and freshman King McClure combine to average 23.6 points per game off the bench. They've accounted for 84 percent of Baylor's bench scoring (71 of 85 points).
- Baylor is 84-11 when leading at the half over the last four seasons, including 2-0 this season.
- BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € has won 38% of its games (21-34) when tied or trailing at half since 2011-12, including 0-1 this season.
- Baylor is 37-22 in games decided by 5 or fewer points and 10-2 in overtime games since 2008-09.
- Baylor is 38-14 in its last 52 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 196-92 (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 is 15-0 all-time against current Mid-Eastern Athletic Conferenceà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € teams.
- Drew is coaching his 392nd game at Baylor (230-161). His .588 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 60+ games, and his teams have a .681 winning percentage since 2007-08.
- 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 296-69 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 769 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
- Monday's game will be the third series meeting - both previous meetings were Baylor wins in Waco.
- BU averages a 33-point margin of victory against SSU. The Bears won 86-50 when the teams met inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Waco during the 2004-05 season and 80-50 when they played at the Ferrell Center two seasons ago.
- BU is 15-0 all-time against current members of the Mid-Easternà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Athletic Conference (MEAC).

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).

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.

HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS
- Baylor has won 88% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12. The Bears are 84-11 when leading at the break in that stretch (2-0 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 95 of 150 games over the last four-plus seasons. With wins in 84 of those 95 games, and victories in 21 of 55 games it has trailed or been tied at the half, Baylor is 105-45 since 2011-12.

PRINCE IN DOUBLE FIGURES IN 20 OF 21
- Taureanà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince has scored in double figures in 20 of the last 21 games, averaging 15.2 ppg during that span.
- Prince has scored 20-plus points six times in those 21 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.
- Prior to this 21-game span,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince had 22 career double-figure scoring games in 77 career games played.

GATHERS CHASING REBOUNDING RECORD
- Rico Gathers ranks 3rd in Baylor history with 874 career rebounds, just 41 back of Brian Skinner's school record of 915 boards. At his current career average, he'll need 6 more games to break the record.
- Gathers needs 4 rebounds to pass Jerry Mallett for 2nd place on Baylor's career list.
- Gathers has 25 career double-doubles, tops among active Big 12 players and tied for 4th in Baylor history.
- Gathers and Prince are in a race to become Baylor's 29th player to reach 1,000 career points. Gathers needs 112 more points and Prince needs 186 more. The first one to reach 1,000 will be the 11th of the Scott Drew era.

FREEMAN GROWING INTO STARTING ROLE
- Sophomore Alà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Freeman has moved into the starting shooting guard role after coming off the bench last year.
- Freeman has scored in double figures in all three games this season after scoring 10+ points in back-to-back games just once as a freshman. He's also posted back-to-back 20-point games.
- Freeman leads the Big 12 with nine 3-pointers made, ranks 5th with 17.7 points per game, 6th in field goal percentage (.633), 7th in 3-point percentage (.563) and tied for 3rd in minutes per game (32.0).

MOTLEY, MASTON AND MCCLURE PROVIDING SPARK OFF BENCH
- Sophomores Johnathan Motley and Terryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Maston and freshman King McClure combine to average 23.6 points per game off the bench. They've accounted for 84 percent of Baylor's bench scoring (71 of 85 points).
- Motley started all 34 games as a redshirt freshman last year, but he's come off the bench this season and is averaging 10.3 points in 21.3 minutes per game, including double-digit scoring in two of three games.
- Maston played only 36 minutes as a freshman last season, and he's already matched that number through three games this season. He had his career-first double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds vs. Jacksonà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State.
- McClure is averaging 8.3 points in 14.3 minutes per game off the bench. He's scored in double-figures twice and connected on a trio of 3-pointers in both of those games. McClure is shooting .636 from 3-point range (7-of-11).

SECOND-MOST WINS OF ANY BIG 12 TEAM SINCE 2011-12
- Baylor is 105-45 since 2011-12, which trails only Kansas (116-33) among Big 12 teams (thru 11/21/15).
- Iowa State (101-40) is 3rd, Oklahoma State (91-55) is 4th, Kansas State (87-49) is 5th, Oklahoma (84-49) is 6th, Texas (81-58) is 7th, West Virginia (77-59) is 8th, TCU (58-74) is 9th and Texas Tech (48-81) is 10th.

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 three games this season,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Baylor is No. 16 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.

NATION'S BEST IN THREE MAJORS SPORTS SINCE 2011
- Since 2011-12, Baylor has the nation's most combined wins across football and men's and women's basketball.
- The Bears are 296-69 in that span, giving Baylor 76 more wins than any other Big 12 team, and six more than the next closest team nationally (Notre Dame at 290-71).

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 14 consecutive weekly polls through the latest APà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € rankings released on Nov. 16.
- Baylor is one of 13 schools nationally to be ranked in each of the last nine seasons.

ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
- Scott Drew holds Baylor's school record with 230 career wins as head coach.
- Drew's .589 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 (47), 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 (71).

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.

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 196-92 (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.

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 Friday's noon tipoff vs. Arkansas State.
- Friday's game will be televised on FOXà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Sports Southwest.