1/1 BAYLOR BEARS (17-1, 6-0) Location: Waco, Texas  Head Coach: Scott Drew (Butler, 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes	BAYLOR (17-1, 6-0) at IOWA STATE (9-10, 2-4) Jan. 29, 2020 • 8 p.m. CT Ames, Iowa • Hilton Coliseum (14,356) LIVE STATS: baylorstats.com WATCH: ESPNU and the ESPN App Talent: Robert Ford (pxp), Tim Welsh (analyst) LISTEN: Baylor-IMG College | ESPN Central Texas Talent: John Morris (pxp), Pat Nunley (analyst) Baylor Social Media:
	NR/NR IOWA STATE (9-10, 2-4) Location: Ames, Iowa Head Coach: Steve Prohm (Alabama, 1997)    Roster | Stats | Game Notes

By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
            Having already survived the gauntlet of Lubbock, Texas, Lawrence, Kan., Stillwater, Okla., and Gainesville, Fla., the top-ranked Baylor Bears (17-1, 6-0) go back on the road to face Iowa State (9-10, 2-4) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hilton Coliseum. 
            "We've got some guys who are built to last and we've got some qualities to us that can travel, whether we're hitting shots or not," said sophomore guard Jared Butler, who is averaging a team-high 15.8 points and 3.1 assists per game. "We're always going to play defense and hit the right guy and things like that, and I think that's why we win on the road."
            Butler is actually the youngest in a group of veteran guards that includes senior Devonte Bandoo (8.0 ppg), fourth-year junior MaCio Teague (13.8 ppg) and redshirt sophomore Davion Mitchell (9.8 ppg, 3.0 assists). The latter two are Division I transfers that sat out last season. 
            Baylor coach Scott Drew credits the team's poise, leadership, toughness and character as attributes that help the Bears pull out road wins like Saturday's 72-61 victory over Florida at the O'Connell Center in Gainesville. 
            "You put all that together, and then you've got to take care of the ball. And we've done that," Drew said, whose team can match the longest win streak in program history (17, 2011-12) by beating the Cyclones. "You've got to rebound, we've done that. And then you've got to defend well, because all those are things that if you're not doing lead to easy buckets and the crowd getting into it, and then the home team really getting that momentum."
             Iowa State won the first 12 meetings against the Bears in Ames and still leads the all-time series, 14-3, but Baylor has won on three of its last five trips to Hilton Coliseum. Last year, Butler drained five 3-pointers and was one of four double-figure scorers with a team-high 17 points to go with six rebounds and five assists. 
            "It was one of those Big 12 games where you've literally got to dog yourself through a win," Butler said. "The last five minutes, it was kind of tough. Iowa State is always good at home, so it's going to be another good one."
            Baylor didn't have to dig too deep to dust off a scouting report on the Cyclones. The Bears just played Iowa State two weeks ago at the Ferrell Center, pulling out a 68-55 win and holding the Cyclones to their second-fewest points of the season. 
            "There's pluses and minuses," Drew said. "I know one thing, when you're playing well, you want to keep playing. So, we're excited to get back at it. We have another busy week with three games in six days."
            More than just the venue or location, Drew said "it's the fans that make the difference" in why certain places are tougher than others. 
            "It's usually 10 degrees up there, and they must have the heat on in there (at Hilton Coliseum), and that's one of the few places that do. Because everybody comes to it," Drew said. "But, they have great fan support and a very knowledgeable fan base."
            Wednesday's game will be televised by ESPNU, with Robert Ford and Tim Welsh calling the action. 
            Baylor returns home to host TCU (13-6, 4-2) at 3 p.m. Saturday before going back on the road to take on Kansas State (8-11, 1-5) at 8 p.m. Monday in Manhattan, Kan. 
 
STORY LINES
• No. 1 Baylor carries a 16-game winning streak into Wednesday's game at Iowa State.
• Baylor is seeking its first 7-0 start to league play since starting 10-0 in the 1958 Southwest Conference. BU's last 7-game conference winning streak was in 1988 Southwest Conference play.
• BU is 5-0 in road games, the 2nd-longest road winning streak in program history –12 in 1945-46.
• BU needs a win for its first undefeated month of January since going 6-0 in January 1948.
• Wednesday is the 40th series meeting, and the home team has won 29 of 34 campus-site games.
• Baylor is 9-3 against Iowa State since 2015 and 15-13 vs. ISU during the 17-year Scott Drew era.
• Baylor lost its first 12 trips to Ames, but BU is 3-2 in Ames since getting its first win at Hilton in 2015.
• BU is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. BU moved up in the poll 9 straight weeks until reaching No. 1 on Jan. 20.
• Baylor was voted No. 1 in the AP poll for the 3rd time in program history – Jan. 9, 2017 & last 2 weeks.
• Baylor's streak of 13 consecutive AP polls ranked is the 5th-longest in program history (all since 2010).
• With a win, Baylor can tie the best 19-game start in program history (18-1 in 2016-17).
• Baylor's 16-game winning streak is the 2nd-longest in program history (record is 17 straight wins to start 2011-12) and is the nation's 2nd-longest active streak behind San Diego State (21).
• Baylor is the nation's only program with 5 wins vs. AP Top 25 ranked teams this season (5-0).
• Baylor ranks 5th nationally in scoring defense (58.6) and 10th nationally in scoring margin (+14.1).
• Baylor's 2-point FG% defense ranks 8th nationally (.422) and effective FG% defense ranks 14th (.438).
• BU is coming off a 72-61 win at Florida, improving to a league-best 6-1 in the Big 12/SEC Challenge.
• BU has trailed for only 13% of game time over its last 12 games (63:36 of 480:00), but more than half of that time (30:13) came in a comeback from 12 down to win at Oklahoma State on Jan. 18.
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 10 of 18 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.
• Baylor has held 5 high-major opponents to their season-low scoring totals – Arizona (58), Butler (52), Texas (44), Texas Tech (52) and Kansas (55). BU has held 17 of 18 opponents below 70 points.
• BU has held 4 Big 12 opponents to 55 or fewer points, matching the program record for a season (4 in 2013 & 2017). Entering 2020, BU held teams to 55 or fewer 23 times in the Big 12's first 23 seasons.
• BU and KU are 3-0 in Big 12 road games this season, while the rest of the league is a combined 4-20.
• BU is No. 1 in the NET rankings with win 4 top-15 NET wins: vs. No. 4 (road), No. 9, No. 10, No. 14.
• BU is the only team with 2 players on the Naismith Defensive POY Midseason Team (Vital & Mitchell).
• Baylor is 37-38 in Big 12 road games since 2012, 2nd-best in the league behind only Kansas (48-27).
• Baylor is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 75-7 this year and all four are top-12 ranked (No. 1 MBB, No. 1 WBB, No. 3 VB, No. 12 FB).
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (333-210).
• Baylor is playing its 230th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since 2008-09, BU has been ranked in 227 of 409 games.
• This is the 7th straight year BU has ranked top-10 nationally in offensive rebounding pct (No. 5 this year).

QUICK HITS 
• BU is 6-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league. Combined with a 3-1 mark in the Big 12/Pac-10 Series and 1-0 in the Big 12/Big East Battle, Baylor is 10-2 in conference challenges. 
• Baylor is 43-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18 (13-1 this season). 
• Baylor has won 89% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (161-20). 
• BU is 105-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (17-1 this season). 
• Baylor is 208-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012. 
• Baylor's 208 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (252). 
• Baylor is 299-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships. 
• BU returned 8 letterwinners from last season, including 5 players who made at least 7 starts – Mark Vital (34), Jared Butler (21), Tristan Clark (14), Freddie Gillespie (11) and Devonte Bandoo (7). 
• Baylor returned 9 players with at least 26 games of Division I experience, including a pair of transfers who are now starters after sitting out last season – Davion Mitchell and MaCio Teague. 
• Eight of Baylor's 14 players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Five after transferring to BU – Flagler, Gillespie, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and three as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner and Vital. 
• Eight of Baylor's nine starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (14 of last 15 seasons). 
• Baylor has defeated 8 top-10 teams in the last 4 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco. 
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 10 of the last 12 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988). 
• The Bears are one of 11 programs nationally (1 of 6 in Power-5) to win 18+ games in every year since 2008. 
• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs). 
• Baylor has the nation's 10th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 921 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 29 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8). 
• Baylor has won 6 tournament titles under Drew (2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic and 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational). 

SERIES HISTORY 
• Wednesday is the 40th series meeting. Baylor has won 9 of the last 12 meetings, but trails 19-20 in the series. 
• The home team has won 29 of 34 campus site games in the all-time series, and BU is 1-4 vs. ISU at neutral sites. 
• Baylor has won 7 straight home games vs. Iowa State and 13 of 14 home games vs. ISU dating back to 2002. 
• Since the Big 12 went to double round-robin play in 2012, the teams have split the regular-season series four times (2012, 2014, 2017, 2018), BU has swept three times (2015, 2016, 2019) and ISU has swept once (2013). 
• Baylor is looking to sweep the regular-season series for the 4th time in the last 6 seasons (2015, 2016, 2019). 

LAST TIME VS. IOWA STATE 
• Baylor overcame a slow start to secure a 68-55 win over Iowa State in Waco on Jan. 15. The win extended Baylor's streak to 13 straight wins, and it improved Baylor to 4-0 in Big 12 play for the 4th time in program history. 
• BU held all 10 Iowa State players to single-digit scoring, while Jared Butler's 19 points led a group of four Bears who reached double-figures. Freddie Gillespie had his 6th double-double of the year with 14 points and 11 boards. 
• Iowa State's 55 points were its second-fewest this season and its fewest away from home since 2013.