 | | MEDIA INFORMATION | | Date | Saturday, Feb. 13 | 7:00 p.m. CT | | Location | Waco, Texas; Ferrell Center (10,284)
| | Tickets | Purchase Tickets Online | | TV | ESPNU and WatchESPN | | TV Talent | Jason Benetti (pxp), Reid Gettys (color)
| | Satellite Radio | Sirius 145 / XM 199
| | BU Radio | ESPN Central Texas and TuneIn App | | BU Talent | John Morris (pxp), Pat Nunley (color) | | Stats | | | Game Notes | Baylor | Texas Tech
| | Social Media | @BaylorMBB | BAYLOR BEARS
| | Record | 18-6, 7-4 | | Ranking | 21 (AP), 19 (Coaches)
| | Head Coach | Scott Drew
| | Career: 266-177 (14th season)
| | BU Record: 246-166 (13th season)
| TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS
| | Record | 14-9, 4-7
| | Ranking | nr (AP), nr (Coaches)
| | Head Coach | Tubby Smith
| | Career: 552-272 (25th season)
| | TTU Record: 41-46 (3rd season)
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STORYLINES
- Saturday is the 132nd series meeting.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Baylor is 55-76 in the all-time series, including 16-9 under Scott Drew.
- Baylor is 14-4 against Texas Tech since 2008, including an 8-1 record since 2012.
- Baylor has won 4 straight against Texas Tech, tying the Bears' longest winning streak in series history.
- Baylor won 63-60 on Lester Medford's buzzer-beater 3-pointer when the teams played in Lubbock on Jan. 16.
- Baylor is 18-0 this season when it has taken the lead at any point in the 2nd half of a game.
- Baylor is 13-0 this season when winning the turnover battle and 12-1 when getting more points off turnovers.
- Baylor is 18-1 this season when shooting 40%à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € or better from the field and 0-5 when shooting less than 40%.
- Baylor's 7-4 Big 12 record trails only the 8-3 start of 2012 for BU's best-ever record through 11 Big 12 games.
- All of Baylor's losses are against current top-25 RPI teams (at Oregon, at TAMU, at Kansas, vs. OU, vs. UT, at WVU).
- Baylor's losses have all been against teams currently ranked in the APà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Top 25 ÃÆ' ¢Ãƒ ¢' ¬" at No. 11 Oregon, at No. 15 Texas A&M, at No. 6 Kansas, vs. No. 3 Oklahoma, vs. No. 24 Texas and at No. 10 West Virginia.
- Baylor is 96-11 when leading at the half since 2011-12, including 14-0 this season.
- Baylor has won 27 of its last 28 home games against unranked opponents - lone loss vs. Texas on Feb. 1.
- Baylor has won 18+ games in 9 straight seasons, more than the program's previous 101 seasons combined (8).
- Baylor is 9-10 against top-25 ranked teams since the start of the 2014-15 season, including a 5-3 home record.
- Baylor is No. 21 in the AP Top 25 and No. 19 in the coaches poll, and has been ranked for 26 consecutive weeks.
- Baylor ranks top-15 nationally in assists per game (2nd), offensive rebound percentage (5th), assist-to-turnover ratio (12th), steal percentage (10th) and rebound margin (14th).
- Five BU players are averaging 10+ ppg in Big 12 play, tying Iowa State for most in the league.
- Baylor is 1 of 3 schools nationally ranked by the AP in football, men's basketball and women's basketball (Mich. St., OU).
- Baylor has won 121 games since 2011-12, which ranks 2nd in the Big 12 behind Kansas (135).
- Baylor is 80-67 in Big 12 play since 2007-08 after going 45-131 in the league's first 11 years.
- Baylor has won 39% of its games (25-39) when tied or trailing at half since 2011-12, including 4-6 this season.
- Baylor ranks 5th nationally in offensive rebound percentage, grabbing 40.2% of its missed shots.
- Baylor is 12-12 in Big 12 road games over the last 3 seasons, the league's best road record in that span.
- Baylor is 21-21 in Big 12 road games over the last 5 seasons, trailing only Kansas at 24-17.
INDIVIDUAL QUICK HITS
- Scott Drew is coaching his 413th game at Baylor (246-166). His .597 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 60+ games, and his teams have a .686 winning percentage (212-97) since 2007-08.
- Taurean Prince is the only player in the Big 12's top-10 in scoring (5th), rebounding (10th) and steals (10th).
- Prince ranks 20th on Baylor's all-time scoring list (1,142) and trails Coryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Jefferson by 17 points for 19th place.
- Rico Gathers ranks 21st on Baylor's all-time scoring list (1,140) and has a school record 1,083 career rebounds.
- Gathers is tied with Missouri's Arthur Johnson (1,083) for 3rd on the Big 12's all-time rebounding list.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers trails only Kansas' Nickà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Collison (1,143) and Texas'à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Damionà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € James (1,318)
- Al Freeman has 15 double-figure scoring games this season. BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € is 20-2 inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Freeman's 20 career games with 10+ points.
- Lester Medford has 30 career starts at point guard and has 204 assists and 58 turnovers in those games (3.5 A-T ratio).
- Medford joins Iowa State's Monte Morris as the nation's only players ranked in the NCAA top 40 in assists (6th), assist-to-turnover ratio (17th) and steals (39th). Morris ranks 5th in assists, 2nd in A-T ratio and 31st in steals.
- Medford ranks 2nd in the Big 12 in assists (7.0), steals (1.9) and assist-to-turnover ratio (3.4).
- Ishmail Wainright has 129 points this season after scoring 103 points over his first two seasons combined.
- King McClure is averaging 6.6 ppg in the last 9 games, up from 3.4 ppg in his 15 previous collegiate games.
- McClure has made 12-of-24 from 3-point range in his last 9 games, scoring 59 points in 128 minutes.
- Jake Lindsey has 57 assists and 14 turnovers, and his 4.1 assist-to-turnover ratio trails only Iowa State's Monte Morris (5.4) among all Big 12 Conference players.
- Sophomores Johnathan Motley and Terryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Maston combine to average 17.2 points per game off the bench. They've accounted for 69 percent of Baylor's bench scoring (404 of 589 points).
- Drew is tied with Kansas' Bill Self as the longest tenured head coach in the Big 12 Conference (13th seasons).
TEAM QUICK HITS
- Saturday's game will be televised on ESPNU,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Baylor's 162nd straight televised game.
- Baylor has a .708 winning percentage over the last five seasons (121-50).
- Baylor is 41-22 in games decided by 5 or fewer points and 11-2 in overtime games since 2008-09.
- BU's bench is averaging 26.2 ppg in the last 10 games, led by Motley (99 pts), Maston (79 pts) and McClure (59 pts).
- Baylor is 54-19 in its last 73 games dating back to Feb. 12, 2014. Fifteen of the 19 losses have been away from home (10 road, 5 neutral) and 13 of the losses have been against ranked teams.
- Baylor is 334-76 in football and men's and women's basketball since 2011-12, the nation's best record in that span.
- Baylor is 212-97 (24 wins per season) over the last 9 seasons and has made 7 postseason appearancesà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (NCAA Tournament - 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015; NIT - 2009, 2013).
- 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.
- Baylor made back-to-back NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tournaments for the first time in program history in 2014 and 2015.
- Baylor is one of 13 teams to be nationally ranked in each of the last nine seasons.
- Baylor was picked 5th in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, behind Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Texas.
- Baylor is 28-12 in postseason tournaments (conference, national) over the last seven seasons.
- 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.
- Baylor has the Big 12's 2nd-longest active streak (16th-longest nationally) with at least one 3-point FG made in 790 consecutive games. The last time BU didn't make a 3-pointer was Feb. 21, 1990, a win vs.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Texas Tech.
LINEUP NOTES
- Baylor has used the same starting lineup in 23 of 24 games this season ÃÆ' ¢Ãƒ ¢' ¬" the lone exception was Feb. 10 at Kansas State, whenà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers was sick.
- Baylor's projected starting lineup has 455 games of combined experience, including 206 starts.
- Lester Medford has started all 58 games at Baylor since joining the team prior to the 2014-15 season.
- Rico Gathers played a school-record 132 straight games before missing the Feb. 10 game at K-State due to illness. He ranks 4th on Baylor's games played list (132) and needs 10 more to break A.J.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Walton's record (141).
- Johnathan Motley, who typically comes off the Baylor bench, has 35 career starts.
KEYS TO VICTORY
- Baylor is 14-0 this season when leading at the half and 96-11 when leading at the break since 2011-12.
- Baylor is 16-1 this season when posting 16+ assists and 2-5 when recording 15 or fewer assists.
- Baylor is 16-3 this season when holding opponents below 35 rebounds and 1-4 when allowing 35+à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € boards.
- Baylor is 18-1 this season when shooting 40%à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € or better from the field and 0-5 when shooting less than 40%.
- Baylor is 12-1 when holding opponents below 70 points and 17-2 when holding teams below 80 points.
- BU is 13-0 when committing fewer turnovers than its opponent and 13-1 when getting more points off turnovers.
- Baylor is 20-2 when Alà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Freeman scores 10+ points, including a 13-2 mark this season.
- Baylor is 16-3 when Johnathan Motley scores 10+ points, including a 9-2 mark this season.
- Baylor is 26-4 when Lester Medford records 5+ assists, including a 16-3 mark this season.
- Baylor is 10-0 when Ishmailà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Wainright records 5+ assists, including a 6-0 mark this season.
A WIN WOULD ...
- Make Baylor 8-4 in Big 12 play, tying the program's best 12-game start in the league's 20-year history (2012).
- Improve Baylor's record to 56-76 againstà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tech, including a 15-3 mark since 2008 and a 17-9 mark in the Drew era.
- Give Baylor its longest winning streak in series history at 5 straight.
- Make Baylor a 9-1 record in its last 10 games against Texas Tech.
- Give BU a season sweep against Tech for the 6th time in the last 9 seasons (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015).
- Give Baylor a 54-19 record over its last 73 games, including a 12-13 record against AP-ranked teams in that span.
- Make Baylor 91-42 during Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers' and Taurean Prince's 4-year careers.
- Give Baylor a 121-42 record since the start of the 2011-12 season and 212-97 since 2007-08.
SERIES HISTORY
- Baylor is 55-76 in the all-time series against Texas Tech, including a 16-9 mark in the Scott Drew era.
- Baylor is 34-26 all-time against Texas Tech inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Waco, including a 9-1 mark since 2006 (lone loss in 2011).
- Baylor is 14-3 against Texasà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tech since 2008 and 8-1 against the Red Raiders since 2012.
LAST SEASON VS. TEXAS TECH
- Baylor beat Texas Tech twice last season, but the wins were by five and three points, respectively.
- BU won 54-49 in Lubbock on Feb. 17 and 77-74 in Waco on March 6.
- Free throws were the difference, as Baylor shot 76%à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (28-of-37) to Tech's 51% (18-of-25) over the two games.
- Texas Tech built a 15-9 lead in Lubbock, but the Bears went on a 13-0 run and led the rest of the way. Taurean Prince scored 18 first-half points off the bench and made half of Baylor's 18 field goals in the game.
- In the return trip to Waco, Texasà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tech led 51-39 with 13 minutes remaining, but Baylor finished on a 38-23 run.
- Prince came off the bench just 1:42 into the game and played the rest of the way, scoring 24 points.
- Prince averaged 23.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals in 35.0 minutes per game last season vs. Texas Tech.
THIS SEASON VS. TEXAS TECH
- Lester Medford hit a buzzer-beater 3-pointer to give BU a 63-60 win in Lubbock on Jan. 16.
- Baylor controlled most the game, leading for 32:19 and trailing for just 6:51 of game time.
- Baylor built an 11-point first half lead at 36-25, but Tech used a 14-3 run to take a 39-38 lead with 12:26 left in the 2nd half. The Bears used an 8-0 run to build a 58-51 lead with 2:34 remaining, but Tech fought back to tie the game at 60-60 on Zach Smith's jumper with 24 seconds left.
- Alà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Freeman led Baylor with 14 points, while Terryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Maston added 12 points in 26 minutes off the bench.
- Rico Gathers had 13 of Baylor's 27 rebounds, and the Bears were out-rebounded for just the 3rd time in 17 games played. For the season, Baylor has been outrebound in just 4 of 24 games.
18+ WINS IN 9 STRAIGHT SEASONS
- Baylor has won 18+ games in 9 consecutive seasons, surprassing the total number of 18-win seasons in the program's prior 101 seasons combined (8; 1946, 1948, 1969, 1971, 1987, 1988, 1997, 2001).
- Baylor's 9-season streak of 18+ wins trails only Kansas among Big 12 teams. The next closest is Iowa State (5).
SECOND-MOST WINS IN BIG 12 SINCE 2011-12
- Baylor is 121-50 since 2011-12, which trails only Kansas (135-36) among Big 12 teams (thru 2/12/16).
- Iowa State (117-47) is 3rd, Oklahoma (103-52) is 4th, Oklahoma State (99-67) is 5th, Kansas State (98-59) is 6th, Texas (96-65) is 7th, West Virginia (93-64) is 8th, TCU (67-86) is 9th and Texas Tech (60-89) is 10th.
ONE OF THREE RANKED IN FB, MBB AND WBB
- Baylor joins Michigan State and Oklahoma as the only schools ranked in the APà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Top 25 in football, men's basketball and women's basketball.
- Baylor men's basketball is ranked No. 21, football is No. 13 and women's basketball is No. 4.
- Michigan State is ranked No. 6 in football, No. 8 in men's basketball and No. 17 in women's basketball. Oklahoma is No. 5 in football,à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € No. 3 in men's basketball and No. 21 in women's basketball.
- 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.
TOP-15 NATIONALLY IN ASSISTS, REBOUNDING AND STEALS
- Baylor ranks top-15 nationally in assists per game (2nd, 19.3), offensive rebound percentage (5th, 40.2), assist-to-turnover ratio (12th, 1.55), steal percentage (10th, 11.9) and rebound margin (14th, +8.7).
- Individually, Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers leads the nation in offensive rebound percentage (19.4) and ranks 33rd in defensive rebound percentage (26.3), while Lester Medford ranks 14th in assist rate (36.9) and 57th in steal percentage (3.5).
STRONG START TO BIG 12 PLAY
- Baylor's 7-4 start to Big 12 play ties its second-best record through 11 games in the league's 20-year history, trailing only the 8-3 start in 2012. Baylor also started 7-4 in 2010, 2013 and 2015.
- A win vs.à ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Texasà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tech would tie Baylor's best-ever record through 12 games in Big 12 play (8-4 in 2012).
- Baylor is 4-2 in Big 12 road games, tying the program's second-most Big 12 road wins in a season. The Bears won 6 Big 12 road games in 2012 and 4 in 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
MEDFORD RUNNING EFFICIENT OFFENSE
- Lester Medford joins ISU's Monte Morris at the nation's only players ranked in the NCAAà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € top-40 in assists/game (6th, 7.0), steals/game (39th, 1.9) and assist-to-turnover ratio (17th, 3.4).
- Medford's current 7.04 assists per game ranks 5th in Baylor single-season history, and his 4.74 career assists per game ranks 5th on Baylor's all-time list. His 169 assists this year are tied for 9th on BU's single-season list.
- Medford has two game-winning shots this season. He hit a 3-pointer in the final minute to give Baylor a 69-67 win against No. 13 Vanderbilt on Dec. 6, then made a buzzer-beater 3-pointer to win 63-60 at Texas Tech on Jan. 16.
- In 22 games since the loss at Oregon, Medford has posted 159 assists and 40 turnovers (4.0 A-T ratio).
- Medford has five double-digit assist games this season, including a pair of games with 11+ assists and 0 turnovers.
- In 30 career starts as point guard, Medford has 204 assists and 58 turnovers, posting a 3.5 assist-to-turnover ratio.
PRINCE DOING IT ALL
- Taureanà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Prince is the only player ranked in the Big 12's top 10 in points, rebounds and steals. Prince ranks 5th in scoring (15.0), 10th in rebounding (5.8) and 10th in steals (1.5).
- Prince was 1 of 10 players named a Karlà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Malone Award finalist on Feb. 4.
- Prince has made 31-of-34 free throws in Big 12 play, good for 2nd in the league at .912. He ranks 4th in the league with a .846 free-throw percentage in all games.
- Prince has scored in double figures in 36 of the last 42 games dating back to Jan. 17, 2015.
- Prince has 10 games with 20+ points in that stretch, including a pair of 30-point efforts.
- Prince earned his first career Big 12 Player of the Week award after a career-high 30 points inà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € the Dec. 6 win over No. 13 Vanderbilt. Prince scored 16 of 18 Baylor points in a 6-minute span during the first half.
- Prince joined Rico Gathers (Nov. 16) to give Baylor multiple Big 12 Players of the Week for a 5th straight season.
GATHERS SETS ANOTHER REBOUNDING RECORD
- Rico Gathers broke Brian Skinner's school record with his 916th career board in the Dec. 6 win vs. No. 13 Vandy.
- Gathers already held Baylor's single-season (394) and single-game (28) rebounding records, both set last season.
- Gathers has 1,083 career rebounds, which ranks tied for 3rd on the Big 12's career list. He's tied with MU's Arthur Johnson (1,083) and trails KU's Nickà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Collison (1,143) and UT's Damionà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € James (1,318).
- Gathers has 31 career double-doubles, 2nd-most in Baylor history and 3 back of Skinner's school record of 34.
MOTLEY AND MASTON PROVIDING FRONTCOURT DEPTH
- Sophomores Johnathan Motley and Terryà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Maston combine to average 17.2 points per game off the bench. They've accounted for 69 percent of Baylor's bench scoring (404 of 589 points).
- Motley leads the Big 12 in field goal percentage in conference play at .629. Gathers and Maston don't qualify for the Big 12 rankings (min 4.0 fgm/gm), but Maston's .567 would rank 2nd and Gathers' .514 would rank 5th.
- Motley leads the Big 12 with a .617 field goal percentage, which is a 20% improvement from last year's 42%. He ranks 2nd among Big 12 reserves with 10.4 points in 19.6 minutes per game, including 10 double-digit scoring games.
- Maston is averaging 8.2 points in 16.8 minutes per game in league play, up from 5.8 points and 11.7 minutes in non-conference action. He's scored in double-digits 4 times in Big 12 play.
GATHERS AND PRINCE JOIN 1,000-POINT CLUB
- Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers became Baylor's 29th 1,000-point scorer (11th of Drew era) on Dec. 23 vs. New Mexico State.
- Taurean Prince became Baylor's 30th 1,000-point scorer (12th of Drew era) on Jan. 9 at Iowa State.
- Gathers (1,140 career points) is tied withà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Brady Heslip for 21st on BU's all-time scoring list.
- Prince (1,142 career points) ranks 20th on BU's scoring list, 17 points back of Cory Jefferson (1,159) in 19th.
DREW VS. RANKED TEAMS
- Baylor is 9-10 against top-25 ranked teams since the start of the 2014-15 season.
- Drew is 28-50 against ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in his first four rebuilding seasons at Baylor.
- Baylor is 2-5 vs. ranked teams this season with wins over No. 16 Vanderbilt and at No. 13 Iowa State, and losses at No. 25 Oregon, at No. 24 Texas A&M, at No. 2 Kansas, vs. No. 1 Oklahoma and at No. 14 West Virginia.
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).
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 nine seasons, including an active streak of 26 consecutive weeks ranked.
- Baylor is one of 13 schools to be nationally ranked in each of the last nine seasons.
FIVE AVERAGING 10+ PPG IN BIG 12 PLAY
- Baylor has five players averaging 10+ points per game in Big 12 Conference play, tying ISU for the league lead.
- Taurean Prince (14.7 ppg), Ricoà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Gathers (10.5), Al Freeman (10.4), Lester Medford (10.3) and Johnathan Motley (10.0) all average at least 10.0 points per game in league play, while Terry Maston adds 8.2 ppg.
HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS
- Baylor has won 90% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12. The Bears are 96-11 when leading at the break in that stretch (14-0 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 39% of games in which its been tied or trailing at the half since 2011-12, going 25-39 in those.
- BU has led at halftime in 107 of 171 games over the last five seasons. With wins in 96 of those 107 games, and victories in 25 of 64 games it has trailed or been tied at the half, Baylor is 121-50 since 2011-12.
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 nearly doubled his assist-to-turnover ratio from 0.87 last year to 1.50 this season.
- Freeman already has 15 double-digit scoring games, doubling his total (7) from all 34 games last season. He's posted five 20-point games, including a career-high 22 points at No. 25 Oregon.
- Freeman ranks 18th in the Big 12 in scoring (11.9), 5th in free-throw percentage (.833), 7th in 3-point pct. (.410) and 8th in 3-pointers made (1.7/gm).
WAINRIGHT FILLING STAT SHEET
- Junior forward Ishmail Wainright stepped into the starting small forward role with the graduation of Royce O'Neale.
- Wainright, who lost 30 pounds in the offeseason to improve his quickness, has scored in double-figures 4 times this season after not doing so in any of his 63 games played in his first two seasons.
- Wainright has more points this season (129) than his first two seasons combined (103).
- Wainright has made 16 3-pointers this season, tripling the total from his first two seasons combined (5-of-20).
- Wainright has already posted season highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. He's made 16-of-43 from 3-point range (37%) this season, after shooting 5-of-20 from long range (25%) over his first two years combined.
LINDSEY STEADY AS BACKUP POINT GUARD
- Freshman Jake Lindsey serves as the backup point guard to Lester Medford, averaging 12.9 minutes per game.
- Lindsey has 57 assists and just 14 turnovers on the season, averaging a team-best 22.1 minutes per turnover.
- Lindsey's 4.1 A-T ratio ranks 2nd among all Big 12 players, trailing only Iowa State's Monte Morris.
- Lindsey, the son of Utah Jazz GMà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Dennis Lindsey, has also played a crucial role as a reserve shooting guard and small forward. He locked down Georges Niang late in the game in a triangle-and-2 defense in the Jan. 9 win at Iowa State.
MCCLURE COMING ON STRONG
- Freshman guard King McClure missed the majority of preseason workouts after being diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) in June. He had an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrilator (ICD) surgically implated as a precaution for his HCM in August, and he was cleared to resume basketball activities on Oct. 1.
- McClure is averaging 6.6 ppg in the last 9 games, up from 3.4 ppg in his 15 previous collegiate games.
- McClure has made 12-of-24 from 3-point range in his last 8 games, scoring 59 points in 128 minutes.
ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
- Scott Drew holds Baylor's school record with 246 career wins as head coach.
- Drew's .597 winning percentage is the best ever by a Baylor coach with 60+ games at the helm.
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.
- Baylor is No. 9 nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency this season.
- 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.
BEST BIG 12 ROAD RECORD SINCE 2014
- Baylor is 12-12 in Big 12 road games over the last 3 seasons, the league's best road record in the span.
- Baylor is 21-21 in Big 12 road games over the last 5 seasons, trailing only Kansas at 24-17.
NATION'S BEST IN 3 MAJOR SPORTS OVER LAST 5 SEASONS
- Since 2011-12, Baylor has the nation's most combined wins across football and men's and women's basketball.
- The Bears are 334-76 in that span, giving Baylor 81 more wins than any other Big 12 team, and 10 more than the next closest team nationally (Notre Dame at 324-81).
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 212-97 (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.
DREW AMONG NATION'S ELITE
- Head coach Scott Drew is the youngest of 10 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), Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (68) and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim (71).
UPCOMING GAMES AND PROMOS
- Baylor plays its second of back-to-back games onà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € Tuesday against Iowa State. Red Panda will perform at halftime.
- BUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € then plays 3 of its next 4 on the road, traveling to face Texas (Feb. 20), TCUà ¢Ã¢' ¬Ã‹ € (Feb. 27) and Oklahoma (March 1).
- Baylor's only remaining home games are vs. Iowa State (Feb. 16), Kansas (Feb. 23) and West Virginia (March 5).
