LUBBOCK, Texas – Never getting rattled by a sellout crowd of 15,098 at United Supermarkets Arena, the fourth-ranked Baylor Bears kept their poise in the closing minutes and pulled out a 57-52 road win over No. 22 Texas Tech to snap the Red Raiders' 15-game home-court winning streak. 
            "We were solid down the stretch from the standpoint that we turned it over," said Baylor coach Scott Drew, whose team improved to 12-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big 12 with its 11^th-consecutive win, "but we never lost our poise and we never got rattled. . . . To win on the road, you're going to have to overcome a lot. Really proud of how the guys subbed in, subbed out, knew their roles. And I thought defensively, we kept them on their toes the last couple minutes."
            Baylor never trailed after an 8-0 run in the first half that included a pair of second-chance buckets that put the Bears up 15-9 when Matthew Mayer fed Freddie Gillespie, who finished one point short of his sixth double-double of the season with nine points and 10 rebounds. 
            For the second-straight game, the Bears won a defensive battle, holding Tech (10-4, 1-1) to 37 percent shooting overall and 7-of-25 in the first half. Baylor dominated on the boards, 44-24, grabbing 17 offensive rebounds and outscoring the Red Raiders, 14-8, in second-chance points. 
            Junior forward Mark Vital, who had eight points, a season-high 13 rebounds and three steals, said he felt the energy when he walked into the arena. 
            "I got my second wind and played as hard as I could," Vital said. "Everybody calls me Baby Rico (Gathers), but throughout high school my coach always told me I had a beat mode. That's what I started calling myself, and that's what I was in tonight. I was zoned out."
            In the pivotal first-half run that gave the Bears the lead for good, MaCio Teague hit a floater in the lane that tied it up at 9-9, followed by back-to-back layups by Gillespie and Vital and the Gillespie jumper. They took a 21-18 lead into the break despite not hitting a field goal in the last five minutes. 
            Davion Mitchell scored a game-high 14 points, hitting a 3-pointer at the end of a shot clock that gave Baylor its largest lead, 42-34, with nine minutes remaining. 
            Freshman Jahmi'us Ramsey scored 14 of his game-high 20 points in the second half, hitting 4-of-6 from outside the arc. Baylor sophomore guard Jared Butler missed his first six shots from the field before hitting back-to-back buckets in the last four minutes and added a clinching free throw with 3.9 seconds left. 
            Trailing 21-18 at halftime and by as many as eight in the second half, Tech scored five unanswered points and closed to within 52-50 on a three-point play by Chris Clarke with 29.2 seconds left. But, the Bears hit five free throws in the last 25 seconds to hold on for the huge road victory. 
            "I thought for the most part we did a great job," Drew said. "You exert so much energy and you play so hard on defense, it shows. Look at the free throws – 9-for-17 for us and 5-for-12 for them. I think fatigue comes in there. Mark was huge, especially in in the first half. He did a great job leading guys that were playing their first Big 12 road game and helping them overcome some adversity."
            Baylor goes back on the road to face third-ranked Kansas (11-2, 1-0) at 12 noon Saturday in Lawrence, Kan., in a game that will be nationally televised by CBS. The Jayhawks play at Iowa State on Wednesday night in Ames.