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No. 20/rv Baylor (4-0) vs. 24/20 Michigan State (3-2) Nov. 24, 2016 | 11:00 a.m. CT Paradise Island, Bahamas | Imperial Arena (3,500) WATCH: ESPN and WatchESPN LISTEN: ESPN Central Texas and TuneIn App

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MEDIA INFORMATION Date Thursday, Nov. 24 | 11:00 a.m. CT Location Paradise Island, Bahamas; Imperial Arena (3,500) Tickets Purchase Tickets Online TV ESPN and WatchESPN TV Talent Dave O'Brien (pxp), Dan Dakich (color) Satellite Radio Sirius TBA, XM TBA, Tune-In App BU Radio ESPN Central Texas BU Talent Pat Nunley (pxp), Nick Joos (color) Stats Game Notes Baylor | Michigan State Social Media @BaylorMBB BAYLOR BEARS Record 4-0 Ranking 20 (AP), rv (Coaches) Head Coach Scott Drew Career: 274-183 (15th season) BU Record: 254-172 (14th season) MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS Record 3-2 Ranking 24 (AP), 20 (Coaches) Head Coach Tom Izzo Career: 527-207 (22nd season) MSU Record: 527-207 (22nd season)

STORYLINES
- Baylor faces Michigan State in Thursday's semifinal of the 6th-annual Battle 4 Atlantis.
- Thursday is the first-ever meeting between Baylor and Michigan State.
- Baylor is 35-11 against first-time opponents in the Drew era, including 29-7 since 2007-08.
- Baylor has led for 82% of game time over its first four games (131:00 of 160:00).
- BU is 4-0 for the 8th time in the last 10 seasons and is looking to start 5-0 for a 7th time since 2007.
- Baylor is 24-11 in regular-season tournaments during the Drew era, including 11-3 since 2013-14.
- Baylor has knocked off 13 ranked teams in the last two-plus seasons (13-14 vs. ranked opponents).
- BU is 32-54 against ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first four rebuilding seasons.
- Baylor went from receiving no votes to No. 20 in this week's AP Top 25.
- BU did not receive any preseason poll votes for the first time since 2009-10.
- Baylor returned six letterwinners from last season's 22-12 NCAA Tournament team.
- Baylor's starting lineup has an average age of 21.9 years old and all five are at least 21 years old.
- All five players in Baylor's starting lineup are in at least their fourth years of college basketball.
- BU is 26-4 since the start of last season when it takes the lead at any point in the 2nd half of a game.
- Baylor is one of 13 teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last 10 seasons.
- The Bears are coming off a school-record third consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.
- Head coach Scott Drew is in his 14th season at Baylor and is the school's all-time wins leader (254).
- Six Baylor players have been selected in the last five NBA Drafts, sixth-most nationally.
- Baylor's 129 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (152).
- Drew (45) is the youngest of 12 coaches to take his current program to three Sweet 16s since 2010.
- All 12 of Baylor's losses last season were against NCAA Tournament teams - Iowa State and National Championship game participants North Carolina and Villanova are the only other teams to make that claim.
- Drew has won 22+ games in five straight seasons and won 20+ games in eight of the last nine years.
- BU was picked 5th in the Big 12 preseason coaches poll, behind Kansas, WVU, Texas and Iowa State.
- Drew is 220-103 since 2007-08, the first year he had a full allotment of scholarships.
- Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (103-13).
- Point guard Manu Lecomte was named Big 12 co-Newcomer of the Week on Nov. 14. Lecomte was also picked by the league's coaches as the preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.
- Six of BU's seven starting point guards during the Drew era have earned All-Big 12 recognition.
- Johnathan Motley was named to the five-player Preseason All-Big 12 team. BU has had seven players selected to the team in the last seven seasons.
- Motley is on preseason watch lists for the Naismith Award, Karl Malone Award and Lute Olson Award.
- Baylor has had a nation-leading four players selected in the NBA Draft since 2010 who weren't ranked in the ESPN100 out of high school - Quincy Acy, Ekpe Udoh, Pierre Jackson and Taurean Prince.
- Baylor has the Big 12's 2nd-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 804 straight games.

EXPERIENCED DESPITE ONLY ONE SENIOR
- Baylor may have only one senior on this year's roster, but eight of nine rotation players are at least 20 years old.
- All five players in Baylor's projected starting lineup are in their fourth or fifth years of college. Manu Lecomte (21), Johnathan Motley (21) and Al Freeman (22) are fourth-year juniors, Ishmail Wainright (22) is a fourth-year senior and Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. (22) is a fifth-year junior.
- The Bears also have sophomore guards King McClure (20) and Jake Lindsey (20) and junior forward Terry Maston (21), who have all played in 38 consecutive games.

SUCCESS IN TOURNAMENTS
- Baylor is 24-11 in regular-season tournaments during the Scott Drew era.
- The Bears are 11-3 in regular-season tournaments since 2013-14, going 3-1 in their last 3 tournaments.
- Baylor has won two regular-season tournament titles under Drew - the 2012 Las Vegas Classic and the 2008 Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

GAME CONTROL
- Baylor has led for 82% of game time over its first four games - 131:00 of 160:00.
- The Bears have trailed for only 18:23 of game time (11%) and have never trailed by more than 8 points.
- BU led for 94% of the game against No. 4 Oregon (37:29), 91% of game time vs. FGCU (36:15) and 97% of game time vs. Oral Roberts (38:38). BU led for 47% of game time vs. VCU (18:38) in the Battle 4 Atlantis quarterfinals.

SERIES HISTORY
- Thursday is the first-ever meeting between Baylor and Michigan State.
- BU is 15-22 all-time against current Big Ten Conference members. Most of those games were against Nebraska (11-12), but the Bears have also played Illinois (0-3), Indiana (0-1), Iowa (1-1), Northwestern (1-1), Penn State (1-1), Purdue (1-2) and Wisconsin (0-1).
- Baylor last faced a Big Ten team when it lost to Illinois, 62-54, in the 2014 Las Vegas Invitational finals.

FIRST-TIME OPPONENTS
- Baylor is 35-11 against first-time opponents in the Scott Drew era.
- Since 2007-08, Baylor is 29-7 against first-time opponents, including eight postseason games.

BEARS BEAT VCU IN BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS QUARTERFINALS
- Baylor rallied from an 8-point halftime deficit to beat VCU, 71-63, in the Battle 4 Atlantis quarterfinals.
- The Bears went a perfect 17-of-17 at the foul line in the 2nd half after shooting 10-of-16 on 1st-half FTs.
- Johnathan Motley posted his 6th career double-double (19 points, 10 rebounds) to lead BU in both categories.
- Manu Lecomte was cold from the field (3-of-12), but scored BU's final 11 points, including 9 straight free throws.
- Lecomte finished with 16 points, Al Freeman added 15 points, and Ishmail Wainright had a career-high 9 rebounds.

FRIDAY'S WIN OVER DUNK CITY
- Baylor opened the 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis with an 81-72 win over Florida Gulf Coast in Waco on Friday.
- The Bears trailed 58-55 points with 10 minutes remaining, marking the first time this season BU has faced a second-half deficit. BU finished the game on a 26-14 run, holding FGCU to 4-of-18 shooting in the last 10 minutes.
- Five Bears scored in double figures, led by Manu Lecomte's 19 points, the second straight game he's led BU.
- Al Freeman added 18 points, while Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. and Johnathan Motley had 12 apiece.

TOP-5 WIN OVER NO. 4 OREGON
- Baylor knocked off No. 4 Oregon, 66-49, on Nov. 15. The Bears became the first team to hold Oregon below 50 points since Feb. 21, 2013 - a streak of 119 games.
- The win was Baylor's 4th in its last 11 games against AP Top 5 teams. Prior to that stretch, BU was 3-34 all-time against top-5 ranked opponents. The Bears are now 4-17 against top-5 teams in the Drew era.
- BU was led by Manu Lecomte with 18 points and 7 assists, while Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. had 8 points, 14 rebounds and 7 blocks. Lual-Acuil's 7 blocks tied the 10th-most in a game in program history.
- Johnathan Motley made his season debut and had 17 points and 7 boards in 28 minutes.

TRIO OF REDSHIRTS IMPRESSIVE IN BAYLOR DEBUTS
- Manu Lecomte, Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. and Wendell Mitchell all made their BU debuts vs. ORU after redshirting last year.
- Lecomte earned Big 12 co-Newcomer of the Week after a double-double with 13 points, 11 assists, 0 turnovers and 3 steals in 35 minutes. He accounted for 53% of Baylor's scoring (40 of 76) through his own points and assists.
- Lual-Acuil had 12 points and team-highs of 9 rebounds and 4 blocks in 33 minutes.
- Mitchell came off the bench and scored 9 points on just 4 shot attempts in 14 minutes.

DREW ERA HIGHLIGHTS
- Drew is coaching his 427th game at Baylor (254-172). His .596 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 60+ games, and his teams have a .681 winning percentage (220-103) since 2007-08.
- BU has graduated 92 percent of its scholarship seniors since Drew took over in 2003 (24 of 26).
- In Drew's first 13 seasons, 25 players have gone on to professional careers.

RANKED NO. 20 IN THIS WEEK'S AP TOP 25
- Baylor is ranked No. 20 in this week's AP Top 25, after receiving no votes in either the preseason or week 1 polls.
- It was the first time since 2009-10 that Baylor did not receive any votes in either the AP or coaches preseason polls. The Bears went to the Elite Eight that season.
- Baylor has now been ranked in each of the last 10 seasons - one of 13 teams nationally to make that claim.

THIRTEEN WINS VS. RANKED TEAMS IN LAST TWO-PLUS SEASONS
- Baylor has gone 13-14 against ranked teams since the start of the 2014-15 season.
- BU had a school record seven wins over ranked teams in 2014-15.
- Five wins over ranked teams last season tied the second-most in program history (5 in 2013-14).
- Baylor knocked off No. 4 Oregon in its second game this season, the seventh top-five win in program history.
- Last season, Baylor had wins over No. 16 Vanderbilt, at No. 13 Iowa State, vs. No. 13 Iowa State, at No. 24 Texas and vs. No. 23 Texas.
- BU is 32-54 against ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first four rebuilding seasons.
- Baylor has won multiple games vs. APà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Top 25 teams in each of the last nine seasons entering 2016-17, including three straight seasons with at least five wins over ranked teams.

PICKED FIFTH IN BIG 12 PRESEASON POLL
- Baylor was picked to finish fifth in the 2017 Big 12 Conference Preseason Poll in a vote by the league's head coaches in October. It's the sixth time in the last seven seasons BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € has been picked in the top half of the league.
- In the last 10 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), 5th in 2015-16 (NCAA Tournament) and 5th (2016-17).

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT - FROM UNRANKED TO NBA DRAFT
- Baylor has had a nation-leading four players selected in the NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft since 2010 who weren't ranked in the ESPN100 out of high school.
- The only other schools with three such players were Colorado,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Marquette, Missouri, New Mexico and Connecticut.
- Baylor developed Quincyà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Acy, Ekpe Udoh, Pierre Jackson and Taurean Prince into NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft picks after joining the program as unranked recruits.

POINT GUARDS THRIVE IN DREW'S SYSTEM
- Six of Baylor's seven starting point guards during the Scott Drew era have earned All-Big 12 recognition.
- Lester Medford (2016), Kenny Chery (2014, 2015), Pierre Jackson (2012, 2013), Tweety Carter (2010), Curtis Jerrells (2007, 2008, 2009) and Aaron Bruce (2005, 2006, 2007) have been named All-Big 12.

SIX NBA DRAFT PICKS IN LAST FIVE SEASONS
- Baylor's six NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft picks over the last five years are the nation's sixth most, trailing only Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse, Kansas and North Carolina and tied with Arizona, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State and UCLA.
- A program-record three Baylor players were selected in the 2012 NBAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Draft - Perryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Jones III (28th pick; Oklahoma City Thunder), Quincyà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Acy (37th pick; Toronto Raptors) and Quincy Miller (38th pick; Denver Nuggets). Pierre Jackson (42nd pick, Philadelphia 76ers; traded to New Orleans Pelicans) was chosen in the 2013 draft, Coryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Jefferson (60th pick; San Antonio Spurs; traded toà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Brooklynà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Nets) was selected in 2014 and Taurean Prince (12th pick; Utah Jazz; traded to Atlanta Hawks) was chosen in 2016.

TWENTY-FIVE PRO PLAYERS IN DREW ERA
- In Scott Drew's first 13 years at Baylor, 25 of his players went on to professional careers.
- All three scholarship seniors from last year's team are now playing professionally.
- Taurean Prince was selected 12th overall in the NBA Draft, becoming the 2nd lottery pick in program history.
- Rico Gathers decided to pursue a pro football career and was selected in the NFL Draft's 6th round.
- Lester Medford recently began his professional career playing in Hungary.

GRADUATING 92 PERCENT OF SENIORS
- Since Scott Drew took over the Baylor Basketball program in 2003, 24 of 26 scholarship players who have exhausted their collegiate eligibility have graduated from Baylor.
- Players recruited by Drew who have graduated at Baylor: Tim Bush, Patrick Fields, Aaron Bruce, Mamadou Diene, Delbert Simpson, Curtis Jerrells, Henry Dugat, Kevin Rogers, Tweety Carter, Josh Lomers, Ekpe Udoh, Fred Ellis, Quincy Acy, Anthony Jones, J'mison Morgan, A.J. Walton, Cory Jefferson, Brady Heslip, Gary Franklin, Kenny Chery, Royce O'Neale, Lester Medford, Rico Gathers and Taurean Prince.

FIVE STRAIGHT 20-WIN SEASONS
- Baylor has won 20+ games in a school-record five consecutive seasons and in eight of the last nine years. The Bears had just three 20-win seasons in the program's first 101 years (1907-2007).
- Baylor has topped 22 wins in each of the past 5 seasons and is averaging 25.0 wins per season in that span.

RANKED IN 10 STRAIGHT SEASONS
- Baylor is one of 13 teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last 10 seasons.
- The Bears went from receiving no votes in the week 1 AP poll to No. 20 nationally in the week 2 poll.
- BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € cracked a string of 38 consecutive unranked seasons when it was tabbed No. 25 in 2007-08.
- The Bears reached as high as No. 19 in 2008-09, No. 19 in 2009-10, No. 9 in 2010-11, No. 3 in 2011-12, No. 16 in 2012-13, No. 7 in 2013-14, No. 14 in 2014-15 and No. 13 in 2015-16.

THREE CONSECUTIVE NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
- Baylor is on a school-record streak of three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Prior to earning at-large bids in each of the last three seasons, the Bears had never been to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments.
- The Bears are one of nine teams nationally to earn a top-six seed in each of the last three NCAA Tournaments, joining Arizona, Duke, Iowa State, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Villanova and Virginia.
- Baylor was a No. 6 seed in 2014, a No. 3 seed in 2015 and a No. 5 seed last season.

CONSISTENTLY AMONG NATION'S BEST OFFENSES
- Baylor's offense has consistently ranked among the nation's best over the last nine seasons under Scott Drew.
- The Bears have finished eight of the past nine seasons among the top 20 nationally in KenPom's adjusted offensive efficiency, joining Duke as the only programs to make that claim.
- BU finished No. 13 in 2015-16, No. 18 in 2014-15, No. 9 in 2013-14, No. 14 in 2012-13, No. 8 in 2011-12, No. 102 in 2010-11, No. 3 in 2009-10, No. 11 in 2008-09 and No. 11 in 2007-08.

SECOND-MOST WINS AMONG BIG 12 TEAMS SINCE 2011-12
- Baylor has averaged 25 wins per season over the last 5 years - 2nd-most in the Big 12 in that span. Baylor's 129-56 record since 2011-12 trails only Kansas (152-38) among Big 12 teams (thru 11/23/16).
- Iowa State (126-52) is 3rd, Oklahoma (115-58) is 4th, Kansas State (105-65) is 5th, Texas (103-72) and West Virginia (103-68) are tied for 6th, Oklahoma State (95-75) is 8th, TCU (72-94) is 9th and Texas Tech (69-94) is 10th.

DREW AMONG NATION'S ELITE
- Head coachà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Scott Drew is the youngest of 12 coaches nationally to take his current program to three Sweet 16 appearances since 2010. Drew (45) is joined by Xavier's Chris Mack (46), Arizona's Sean Miller (47), Ohioà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State's Thad Matta (49), Indiana's Tomà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Crean (50), Kansas' Bill Self (53), Kentucky's John Calipari (57), Michigan State's Tom Izzo (61), Louisville's Rickà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Pitino (63), North Carolina's Roy Williams (66), Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (69) and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim (71).
- Baylor is one of 15 teams to make three Sweet 16 appearances since 2010.

HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS
- Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12. The Bears are 103-13 when leading at the break in that stretch (18-2 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 26-43 in those.
- BU has led at halftime in 116 of 185 games over the last six seasons. With wins in 103 of those 116 games, and victories in 26 of 69 games it has trailed or been tied at the half, Baylor is 129-56 since 2011-12.

NO BAD LOSSES
- All of Baylor's losses last season were against NCAA Tournament teams. The only other teams to make that claim were Iowa State, North Carolina and Villanova.
- Baylor and Villanova were the nation's only teams to not suffer any losses against teams outside the RPI top 50.

ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
- Scott Drew holds Baylor's school record with 254 career wins as head coach.
- Drew's .596 winning percentage is the best ever by a Baylor coach with 60+ games at the helm.

NATION'S BEST IN FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL LAST YEAR à ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦
- Baylor led the nation with an .800 winning percentage across football, men's basketball and women's basketball during the 2015-16 season.
- BU went 68-17 in those sports - football 10 wins, men's basketball 22 wins and women's basketball 36 wins.
- BU joined Michigan State and Oklahoma as the nation's only programs to finish the season ranked in all three sports.

à ¢Ã¢' ¬ ¦ AND NATION'S BEST OVER LAST FIVE YEARS
- Baylor had the nation's most combined wins across football and men's and women's basketball over the five-year period from 2011-12 through 2015-16.
- The Bears went 350-84 in that span, giving Baylor 83 more wins than any other Big 12 team, and nine more than the next closest team nationally, Notre Dame at 341-87.

UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
- Baylor has enjoyed unprecedented success over the last 10 seasons under 14th-year head coach Scott Drew.
- Since the start of the 2007-08 season, Baylor is 220-103 (24 wins per season) and has made eight postseason appearancesà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (NCAA - 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016; NITà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € - 2009, 2013) and posted eight 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 15 postseason appearances (eight under Drew) and won 20+ games just 11 times (eight under Drew) in the program's first 110 seasons.

NATION'S SIXTH-BEST POSTSEASON RECORD
- Baylor's 17-6 postseason record over the past eight seasons is the nation's sixth-best among teams with at least three NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tournament berths since 2009.
- The only teams with better postseason winning percentages than Baylor's .739 are Connecticut (.783), Kentucky (.781), North Carolina (.781), Duke (.778), Louisville (.750)
- The Bears' 17 postseason wins in that span are eighth-most, trailing only Kentucky (25), North Carolina (25), Duke (21), Michiganà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € State (20), Kansas (18), Connecticut (18) and Louisville (18).
- Baylor went 4-1 and advanced to the 2009 NIT Championship game, 3-1 on their way to NCAA Tournament Elite Eight berths in 2010 and 2012, 5-0 to claim the 2013 NIT title and 2-1 on its way to the 2014 Sweet 16.

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.
- Games are broadcast by the "Voice of the Bears" John Morris and former Baylor basketball standout Pat Nunley.
- Morris is in his 29th year doing Baylor broadcasts, while Nunley is in his 34th season as color analyst.
- All of Baylor's games can be heard live on the Internet at www.BaylorBears.com and via the TuneIn App.

UP NEXT
- BU will face either Louisville, Wichita State or Old Dominion in Friday's third game in as many days.
- With a win on Thursday, Baylor would play at 2:30 p.m. CT in the championship game on either ESPN or ESPN2.
- With a loss on Thursday, Baylor would play in the 3rd-place game at noon CT on either ESPN or ESPN2.