LAWRENCE, Kan. - As a Kansas City native who grew up watching Kansas basketball games at Allen Fieldhouse, Ishmail Wainright says "playing against KU is amazing."

As part of the Baylor basketball team, the 6-foot-5 forward averaged 3.0 points against the Jayhawks and went 0-10 over the previous four seasons.

That's what made Saturday so special.

Not only did the senior tight end make his first catch with a nine-yard TD pass from Charlie Brewer with 2:31 left in the game, Wainright was finally on the winning end as the Baylor football team posted its first win of the season in beating the Jayhawks, 38-9, at Memorial Stadium.

"It was exciting, especially being at home and being at KU," he said. "It's my first time winning against them."

While his first catch and touchdown didn't come until the last three minutes of the game, Wainright saw his most extensive action of the season in two-tight end sets with Jordan Feuerbacher.

"With all the injuries, we knew we were going to have to use Ish more, we knew we were going to have to use Feuerbacher more," head coach Matt Rhule said. "Those guys have been working hard and they block for us and go out and do so much. To see them go out there and make a big contribution was awesome."

Through the first eight games, the Baylor tight ends had combined for just three catches and zero touchdowns. But, in Saturday's win, Feuerbacher hauled in a 25-yard TD pass in the second quarter and Wainright capped off the scoring with his nine-yard scoring catch.

"I tried to get up before him, because the DBs can actually jump," Wainright said of his high-point catch that he played like an alley oop on the basketball court. "(The Kansas DB) was a little smaller than me, so I had an advantage. He wasn't really looking at the ball, he was looking at me, eye-to-eye. He was staring at my eyes. I tried to play it off of him, too. The ball was in the perfect spot."

Wainright, who hadn't played football since the ninth grade, was reminded of a similar catch in the spring game. Just four days after donning pads for the first time in eight years, he hauled in a leaping 23-yard catch on a TD pass from Brewer.

"If you remember, in the spring game, he threw the exact same pass," Wainright said of Brewer. "Before the game, he was like, `Hey, I feel another one's coming.' We looked at each other. There's another one coming, you just don't know when."

NOTE: Wainright's paternal grandfather, Maurice King, was the first African-American starter in Kansas basketball history and was part of the 1957 team with Wilt Chamberlain that lost to North Carolina in three overtimes, 54-53, in the NCAA national championship game. King, who died in 2007, later won an NBA title with the Bill Russell-led Boston Celtics in 1960.