Baylor, Oklahoma State Postgame Notes
2/9/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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Monday, Feb. 9, 2015
Ferrell Center (Waco, Texas)
Attendance: 6,720
BAYLOR POSTGAME NOTES
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
? Tonight's game was the 76th all-time series meeting, and Oklahoma State leads the series 54-22, and the series in Waco is now tied 16-16 - the Bears are 10-15 in the series under Scott Drew.
? Baylor had won 17 of its last 18 home games prior to tonight, with the lone loss a 1-point defeat to No. 12 Kansas on Jan. 7, and had won 5 in a row - 14 of the wins in the 18-game span had come by double digit deficits.
? Baylor is 77-8 when leading at half over the last 4 seasons, including 16-4 this season.
? Baylor is 27-18 in February games since 2009-10 and 37-53 in February games under Drew.
? Drew, the program's all-time wins leader, is in his 13th season overall (242-167) and 12th at Baylor (222-156).
? Baylor is 188-87 (24 wins per season) since the start of the 2007-08 season.
? Baylor is 30-9 over its last 39 games dating back to Feb. 12, 2014.
? Baylor is 97-37 since the start of the 2011-12 season.
? Baylor is 1 of 9 Division I teams to hold all opponents under 75 points this season.
? Baylor has more Big 12 wins in the last 7+ seasons (68-61) than its first 11 years in the league combined (45-131).
? Baylor started Kenny Chery, Lester Medford, Royce O'Neale, Rico Gathers and Johnathan Motley for the 18th time this season - Baylor has a 13-5 record with that starting lineup.
TEAM NOTES
? Baylor used an 11-3 run from the 14:25 mark to the 10:04 mark of the first half to take an 8-point lead, and after briefly losing the lead, used an 11-2 run from the 5:08 mark to the 2:48 mark to take another 8-point lead.
? Baylor has made at least one 3-point field goal in 756 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 has lost 2nd-chance points in each of the last 5 games after not doing so in any of their first 19 games, but the Bears are 3-2 in those games.
? Baylor is 18-3 this season when scoring 60+ points and 0-3 when being held under 60.
? Baylor is 14-1 this season when recording 13+ assists and 4-5 when recording fewer than 13.
? Baylor is 13-4 this season when getting more than 15 bench points and 5-2 when getting less than 15.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
? Taurean Prince (20 points) had his team-leading 18th double-figure scoring game of the season - he had 12 double-figure scoring game over his first 2 seasons combined - and now has scored 10+ in a career-high 8 straight games.
? Rico Gathers (16 rebounds) had his 20th double figure rebounding game of the season, 34th of his career.
? Gathers (16 points) had his 13th double figure scoring game of the season, 27th of his career.
? Gathers had his Big 12-leading 13th double-double of the season (3rd in a row), 20th of his career, which is tied for 8th-most in program history with Lawrence Roberts (2002-03), and he is now tied for 7th on the BU single-season double-doubles list.
? Gathers had his 4th straight game and 8th career game with 15+ rebounds - the 2nd-most ever by a Baylor player behind only Jerome Lambert (15).
