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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
? Baylor is now 5-1 in Big 12 Conference challenges, which is the league's best record. The Bears went 3-1 in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series, and Baylor is now 2-0 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
? Baylor and Vanderbilt met for the 10th time on Thursday, and the Bears are now 2-8 in the all-time series, including a 1-5 mark in games played in Nashville.
? Baylor has now started 7 of the last 8 season with a 7-1 or better record.
? Baylor has won 5 straight games against SEC teams, including wins at South Carolina and at Vanderbilt this season.
? Baylor is 49-14 in December games under head coach Scott Drew, including a 37-5 record since 2007-08.
? Baylor is 100-24 in pre-New Year games under Drew, including an 80-12 mark since 2007-08.
? Baylor is 44-19 against non-Big 12 opponents away from Waco, including 21-6 since 2011-12.
? Baylor is 67-5 when leading at the half over the last four seasons, including 6-1 this season.
? Drew, the program's all-time wins leader, is in his 13th season overall (231-166) and 12th at Baylor (211-151).
? Baylor is 177-82 (24 wins per season) since the start of the 2007-08 season.
? Baylor is 19-4 over its last 23 games dating back to Feb. 12, 2014.
? Baylor is 86-35 since the start of the 2011-12 season.
? Baylor started Lester Medford, Royce O'Neale, Taurean Prince, Rico Gathers and Johnathan Motley for the fourth-straight time this season. BU was without starting PG Kenny Chery, who is day-to-day with a foot injury.

TEAM NOTES
? Baylor held an opponent to 25 or fewer 1st-half points for the 6th time in 8 games this season.
? Baylor is 2-0 in games decided by 5 or fewer points this season, and 44-39 in those games in the Drew era
? Baylor has held all 8 opponents below 70 points and is 152-37 when doing so in the Drew era.
? Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 740 consecutive games - the second-longest active streak in the Big 12 (Texas). The last time Baylor did not connect from 3-point range was Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech.
? Baylor is 192-21 when shooting a higher percentage than its opponents in the Drew era, and 6-0 this season.
? Baylor is 164-43 when out-rebounding its opponents in the Drew era.
? Baylor led 14-12 in second-chance points, and the Bears have tied or led in all 8 games this season.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
? Royce O'Neale tied his career high with 22 points - he also had 22 at West Virginia on 2/22/14.
? O'Neale scored in double figures for the 3rd time this season and 13th in his BU career.
? Taurean Prince (19 points) has a career-best streak of 6-straight games scoring in double figures and is averaging 15.2 points per game during that stretch. His longest previous double-figure scoring streak was 2 games.
? Prince has scored in double figures 18 times in his career and Baylor is 14-4 in those games.
? Lester Medford had 7 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds for his first career 5-5-5 game, and he had only 1 turnover.
? Al Freeman had 7 points and has led the team in bench scoring in all 4 games Kenny Chery has missed.