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25/23 BAYLOR 69 (6-1), 16/13 VANDERBILT 67 (6-2)
Friday, Dec. 6, 2015
Ferrell Center (Waco, Texas)
Attendance: 7,084

BAYLOR POSTGAME QUOTES

Baylor Head Coach Scott Drew

Opening statementà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"If we were going to play the first top-25 matchup in a non-conference game in program history, we wanted to make it memorable. That is why our guys said they missed their free throws. Really proud of the effort when down 13. You have to have great leadership. I thought our guys really kept their composure and were sound on defense and got stops. On the offensive end, we did not take bad shots and if you do not take bad shots you allow yourself to get back in the game. It is a game of runs against a good team and it felt like a conference environment. I thought the fans were outstanding. I think they affected the game, definitely, in the last eight minutes. It is hard to make free throws on the road when the crowd is that excited."

On Taurean Princeà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"Taurean can definitely get hot and he has shown it in practice. The key is when you have a good team, you feed the guy that is hot, and when you are not hot, do not keep shooting it because we have other guys that can score. Our guys got him the ball."

On the winning effortà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"Lester was huge. It was a great night for Rico Gathers to break the school rebounding record, which I think is outstanding. Taurean had a great night, I am sure the 33 NBA scouts liked that too. With Lester being a senior, those three in Oregon were disappointed in how we played. It was night and day compared with how they played today."

On the run to tie the gameà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"We got stops. We missed shots we should have made or normally make, but they were scoring. When we made the run, we were making stops and running transition, so it was a little easier to make some buckets. The whole key was getting stops. You are going to miss some, but if you make stops you give yourself a chance to get back in the game or not give up a 17-0 run. I think during that stretch, we did not have many offensive rebounds where we scored either."

Senior Taurean Prince

On the comeback in the second halfà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"We came out into the second half a little lackadaisical, something that we have to get better at. But we hit a three and it knocked their lead down to ten, and then we started to get the ball rolling. We got three or four stops in a row on defense and we capitalized on that. So, when we got the stops, we were able to take our offense to a whole new level."

On the 33 NBA scouts in the crowdà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"I would've been doing my teammates a disservice if I had focused on that. It would be disrespectful to the team and program to let that affect me."

Senior Rico Gathers

On earning the most rebounds in Baylor basketball historyà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"Honestly, it's not something that I had planned to do in my tenure here. I didn't even know anything about the record, until a couple of days before the season. I played the course and it eventually happened. I'm just glad that it was in a big game like this one."

On being the more physical team against the bigger players Vanderbilt hadà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"Like I told my teammates before the game, 'We were going to be David out there, like David and Goliath.' All we needed was a pocket full of stones to go out there and shoot them down."

Vanderbilt Head Coach Kevin Stallings

On the effort in the gameà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"Since we lost we did not finish the way we wanted to. It felt like pulling teeth the whole night. I felt like I was asking for things the entire night that I was not getting. We got what we deserved. The way that we played, we did not deserve to win. We should have won the game, but we did not deserve to." Sophomore Matthew Fisher-Davis

On Taurean Princeà ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦

"He is a very good player, very versatile. I could have done a better job on him."