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             AMES, Iowa – You can scratch Hilton Coliseum off top-ranked Baylor's list. 
            In a magical season that has seen the Bears record their first-ever win at Kansas' Allen Fieldhouse and survive a gauntlet of road trips to Lubbock, Texas, Stillwater, Okla., and Gainesville, Fla., they added another notch on their belt by beating Iowa State, 67-53, Wednesday night to match their program-record 17-game winning streak. 
            "This is one of those places, like any place on the road in the Big 12, where they can get it going, hit a couple 3's, get in transition, and it's hard to shut it down," said Baylor coach Scott Drew, whose team improved to 18-1 overall and atop the Big 12 standings at 7-0. "And I think our guys did a great job all night of making it tough for them to really get things going."      
            What seemed to get the Bears going was when Mark Vital took a charge from 6-8 junior forward Solomon Young about 6 ½ minutes into the second half. When Iowa State coach Steve Prohm was called for a technical foul, Devonte Bandoo knocked down a pair of free throws, starting a 17-2 run that turned a tight battle into a blowout.  
            Four players scored in double figures, led by junior guard MaCio Teague with 15 points, as the Bears remained unbeaten in true road games at 6-0. The 17-game winning streak is the second-longest active streak in the nation and matches the program record set by the 2011-12 team that won its first 17 games. 
            "One thing (former Baylor player Ishmael Wainright) told me was to try to use their crowd as your crowd," said Vital, who had an impressive stat line with eight points, nine rebounds and seven assists. "I try to preach that to the guys, and they've been doing a good job doing it. Tonight, we used their crowd as ours. Don't get me wrong, nobody's better than the Baylor family."
            Leading by as many as 10 in the first and up by seven at the break, 33-26, Baylor saw its lead whittled to four three times in the first four minutes of the second half.
            But, starting with Bandoo's technical free throws, the Bears scored eight unanswered points and went on a 17-2 run to take control of the game. 
            Vital said he studied a lot of film and just "read the play right there," when he took the charge. Baylor followed that up with back-to-back buckets by Davion Mitchell and Freddie Gillespie off turnovers that stretched the lead back to double digits.
            Teague capped the run with a layup off a steal that gave Baylor its largest lead of the night, 61-41, with 5:30 left. 
            Iowa State (9-11, 2-5) shot just 36 percent from the floor and was held to its second-fewest points of the season. The Cyclones are second in the conference in scoring, but averaged just 54 points in getting swept by the Bears. 
            "We're blessed to have great guys that really take (defense) seriously," Drew said. "When you see the guy out front, Davion, playing hard, and then you see the inside guys playing hard, everybody just buys in and it's team defense. When you're switching as much as we are, everybody has to guard. Otherwise, you're going to fall apart, and they're going to find the weak link."
            Gillespie finished a rebound shy of a double-double with 12 points and nine rebounds, while Bandoo and Mitchell also scored in double figures with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Led by Gillespie and Vital, Baylor dominated the boards, 39-28, and outscored the Cyclones in the paint, 44-22. 
            "I love being the underdogs and coming in and playing hard and proving guys wrong," Vital said. "That's the best feeling in the world. We're a big family, Coach stays on, and we're all pit dogs."
            Rasir Bolton scored 14 of his game-high 19 points in the second half, with Tyrese Halliburton adding 17 points and eight rebounds for the Cyclones. Winless on the road this season, Iowa State has dropped four of its last five and falls to 8-4 at home. 
            Baylor, already assured of its 13^th-consecutive 18-win season under Drew, returns home to host TCU (13-7, 4-3) at 3 p.m. Saturday. The Horned Frogs lost at home to Texas, 62-61, Wednesday night. 
            "You can't win the Big 12 if you don't win your home games," Drew said. "What you love when you come up here is you've got those students that come in here an hour and a half before the game. We look forward to seeing our students an hour and a half before."