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14/16 BAYLOR 77 (23-8, 11-7), TEXAS TECH 74 (13-18, 3-15)
Friday, March 6, 2015
Ferrell Center (Waco, Texas)
Attendance: 9,554

BAYLOR POSTGAME NOTES

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
? SERIES: TTU leads 76-54 in the all-time series, but BU leads 34-26 in games played in Waco.
? Baylor has now won 10 of 11 home games against Texas Tech.
? Baylor is 15-9 against Texas Tech under Scott Drew, including a 13-3 mark since 2008.
? Baylor clinched at least the No. 4 seed at the Big 12 Championship -- BU would be able to move up as high as the No. 2 seed, jumping one seed each if Iowa State and/or Oklahoma lose on?Saturday.
? Baylor tied its 2nd-most conference wins in a season and be the 6th time Baylor has reached 11 conference wins.
? Baylor tied its 7th-highest win total in a season, equaling the 23 wins of 1987-88 and 2012-13.
? Baylor is now 36-28 in March games under Scott Drew, including 12-3 in its last 15 March games.
? Baylor is 102-42 record since the start of the 2011-12 season and 193-89 over the last 8 seasons.
? Baylor is now 33-5 vs. in-state opponents since 2011-12 (47-9 vs. Lone Star state teams since 2009-10).
? Scott Drew, the program's all-time wins leader, is in his 13th season overall (247-169) and 12th at Baylor (227-158).
? Baylor is 1 of 2 teams to lead by at least 6 points in every game this season (also No. 1 Kentucky).
? Baylor is 1 of 5 teams to hold all opponents this season under 75 points (also New Hampshire, Saint Peter's, ULM, Utah).
? Baylor has more Big 12 wins in the last 7+ seasons (73-62) than its first 11 years in the league combined (45-131).
? Baylor is 35-11 in its last 46 games dating back to Feb. 12, 2014. Nine of the last 11 losses have been away from home (6, road, 3 neutral) and 7 of the 11 losses have been against ranked teams.
? Baylor has won 20 of its last 22 home games, with losses to No. 12 Kansas (1 pt) and to No. 21 Oklahoma State (9 pts).
? Baylor started Kenny Chery, Lester Medford, Royce O'Neale, Rico Gathers and Johnathan Motley for the 25th time this season - Baylor's record is 18-7 with that starting lineup.
? Royce O'Neale (10 pts/4 rebs) and Kenny Chery (18 pts/4 asts) were recognized prior to the game on Baylor's Senior Night.

TEAM NOTES
? Baylor set a season-high with 56.8 percent FG shooting (25-of-44). The previous high was 54.9 percent at WVU on Feb. 7.
? Baylor trailed at halftime (33-32) for just the fourth time this season and for the first time at home.
? Baylor trailed by 12 points at the 13:15 mark of the second half and then outscored the Red Raiders 38-23 from that point.
? Baylor held the lead for only 2:42 of the game. The Bears had led for at least eight minutes in all of the previous 30 games.
? Baylor is now 37-21 in games decided by 5 or fewer points over the last seven seasons.
? Baylor is now 43-124 in the Drew era, 2-2 on the year and 1-2 in Big 12 play when trailing at the half.
? Baylor was outrebounded by TTU 27-25, it was just the fifth time in 31 of being outrebounded - 4-1 record in such games.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
? Taurean Prince scored a career-high 24 points and had his team-leading 25th double-figure scoring game of the season and has now scored 10+ in a career-high 15-straight games, including 25 of 30 games this season.
? Prince's previous career-high was 23 vs. TCU on Jan. 11, 2014.
? Prince set a season-high and tied a career-high with six free-throws made.
? Rico Gathers scored 18 points to record his 19th double-figure scoring effort of the season (12th in Big 12 play) and 33rd of career.
? Royce O'Neale (10 points) had his 13th double-figure scoring game of the year and 23rd of his career.
? Kenny Chery finished with 18 points. It was his 13th double-digit scoring effort of the season and the 35th of his career.
? Lester Medford had 6 assists on the night to give him 103 on the season. He joined Chery and O'Neale to give Baylor three players with 100+ assists in a season for the first time.