By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
            FORT WORTH, Texas – Scott Drew hopes the next time he sees Desmond Bane it's on an NBA court and not playing against his Baylor Bears. 
            Fueling an 18-1 run with three 3-pointers, the TCU senior guard was a perfect 5-of-5 from outside the arc and scored 19 of his game-high 23 points in the second half as the Horned Frogs (16-13, 7-9) rallied from a double-digit deficit to upset the No. 2 Bears, 75-72, Saturday afternoon at Schollmaier Arena. 
            "I am so glad Desmond's a senior," Drew said. "I love cheering for him when we're not playing him. He's a hard worker and a great kid, and he deserves all the success he's had. I'm glad we'll be seeing him play in a different league next year, hopefully the NBA."
            Seven days after seeing its school- and Big 12-record 23-game winning streak snapped in a 64-61 loss at home to Kansas, Baylor lost its first true road game of the season. The only other loss was a neutral-site game to Washington in Anchorage, Alaska, back in November. 
            With Kansas (26-3, 15-1) holding on to beat Kansas State, 62-58, in Manhattan, the Jayhawks take over sole possession of first place, a spot Baylor had locked down since the start of conference play. 
            "We've got to control what we can control," said Drew, whose team will host No. 21/22 Texas Tech (18-11. 9-7) at 8 p.m. Monday. "People probably thought we would have won here today. That's the Big 12. You look at the road records for the league. Kansas and us have been blessed all year. Normally, what makes the Big 12 so good, is it's so hard to win on the road. TCU showed you that today. They've beaten three ranked teams here."
            That was TCU coach Jamie Dixon's message to his team. Having gone 13-3 on its home court this season, with wins over nationally ranked Tech and West Virginia, "We're supposed to win."
            "You're supposed to beat ranked teams at home if you're going to be the program we say we're going to be," said Dixon, whose team has won the last three games in this series in Fort Worth. 
            Baylor looked like it would put that streak to an end when the Bears jumped out to a 23-12 lead late in the first half on a Matthew Mayer layup. TCU whittled it down to a single digit deficit, 28-21, on a pair of free throws by Jeff Ledee. 
            Bane scored the game's first four points, but then missed his next eight shots and was 0-for-3 from outside the arc in the first half. TCU, which was shut down in the first meeting in falling 68-52 in Waco, hit just 26.9 percent from the floor in the first half. 
            The second half was a different story. 
            Desmond Bandoo nailed a 3-pointer that stretched Baylor's lead to 39-27 about four minutes into the second half. But PJ Fuller, who had a career-high 21 points, hit a 3-pointer to start a 7-0 run that included back-to-back baskets off turnovers. 
            TCU came out on fire, hitting its first four shots and shooting a sizzling 76 percent in the second half (16-of-21). The Frogs, who hadn't led since the first six minutes of the opening half, went up 50-49 on a pair of free throws by Kevin Samuel with 8:19 left in the game. 
            "I think they shoot the 3 pretty well, and that was one of our points of emphasis going into it," said Baylor sophomore guard Jared Butler, who finished with 18 points and a career-high nine rebounds. "In the second half, we just didn't execute the game plan like we said. We didn't want to give them any 3's, and they had too many open looks and too many shots they could make, and they made them."
            Particularly Bane and Fuller. 
            Baylor regained the lead on a three-point play by Freddie Gillespie, who had 18 points, three blocks and a career-high 17 rebounds. A pull-up jumper by Davion Mitchell put the Bears on top, 54-50, with just under seven minutes to play. 
            But, over the next four minutes, Bane hit three 3-pointers and a pull-up baseline jumper over Gillespie that fueled the Frogs' decisive 18-1 run that gave them a stunning 68-55 lead with only 1:19 left on the clock. 
            "We wouldn't be where we are right now if we gave up 76 percent against anybody," Drew said. "So really, credit them for making shots, making plays. We'll have to go back to the drawing board and see schematically what we can do better to put ourselves in position to be successful."
Dixon said the Frogs have had some good halves this season, "but this is against the caliber of team it was and a team that had to win."
"(Baylor is) very good and experienced, they're the oldest team in the league. And we looked like an old team in the second half."
            To the Bears' credit, they didn't just go quietly away. With Butler knocking down a long-distance 3-pointer and MaCio Teague hitting three-straight free throws, Baylor scored 17 points in the last 75 seconds and twice made it a one-possession game only to come up short. 
            "We're not going to quit," Drew said. "These guys are too high character and love each other too much to quit on each other."
            The Bears close out the regular season with the final home game against Texas Tech on Monday and a road trip to play No. 19/20 West Virginia (19-10, 7-9) next Saturday in Morgantown. 
            Butler said the quick turnaround for Monday's game actually "makes it a little easier."
            "We're just fortunate enough to get another game," he said. "We've just got to win the next game."