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MBB: #2 Baylor vs Kansas State Preview & Game Thread

February 2, 2017
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No. 2 Baylor (20-2; 7-2) hosts Kansas State (15-7; 4-5) 2 p.m. CT Saturday, February 4th on ESPN News.  Here's a look at the match-up. 

KenPom Analysis
Rankings:  Baylor (8); Kansas State (29)
Offensive Efficiency:  Baylor (23); Kansas State (37)
Defensive Efficiency:  Baylor (5); Kansas State (39)
Prediction:  Baylor 70 Kansas State 61

Coaches

Baylor:  Scott Drew (292-185)
  • 46 years old
  • 6 NCAA bids; 1 NIT Title
  • 2 Elite 8s; 3 Sweet 16s

Kansas State:  Bruce Weber (407-216) 

  • 60 years old
  • 10 NCAA bids
  • 1 Final Four; 1 Elites 8; 3 Sweet 16s
Kansas State Starters
Forward:  6-10 230 lbs Dean Wade (SO):  9 ppg; 5 reb; 2 asst; 51% FG; 69% FT; 39% 3pt

Forward:  6-9 240 lbs DJ Johnson (SR):  12 ppg; 6 reb; 2 blks; 63% FG; 66% FT

Forward:  6-7 205 lbs Wesley Iwundu (SR):  12 ppg; 6 reb; 4 asst; 47% FG; 32% 3pt; 72% FT

Guard:  6-3 195 lbs Barry Brown (SO):  12 ppg; 3 asst; 2 st; 43% FG; 64% FT; 34% 3pt

Guard:  6-0 165 lbs Kamau Stokes (SO):  12 ppg; 5 asst; 39% FG; 41% 3pt; 73% FT
Kansas State Bench

Forward:  6-5 210 lbs Xavier Sneed (FR):  9 ppg; 3 reb; 50% FG; 40% 3pt; 79% FT

Guard:  6-3 200 lbs Carlbe Ervin (SR):  3 ppg; 2 asst; 51% FG; 67% FT; 40% 3pt

Baylor Starters

Forward:  7-0 220 lbs Jo Lual-Acuil (JR):  10 ppg; 7 reb; 58% FG; 53% FT; 38% 3pt; 3 blks

Forward:  6-10 230 lbs Johnathan Motley (JR): 16 ppg; 10 reb; 52% FG; 70% FT; 37% 3pt

Forward:  6-5 235 lbs Ish Wainright (SR): 6 ppg; 5 reb; 3 asst; 40% FG; 80% FT; 2 st

Guard:  6-3 200 lbs Al Freeman (JR):  10 ppg; 3 reb; 43% FG; 36% 3pt; 82% FT

Guard:  5-11 175 lbs Manu Lecomte (JR):  13 ppg; 4 asst; 45% FG; 42% 3pt; 82% FT

Baylor Bench

Forward:  6-8 230 lbs Terry Maston (JR):  8 ppg; 4 reb; 54% FG; 76% FT

Forward:  6-9 205 lbs Nuni Omot (JR):  5 ppg; 2 reb; 41% FG; 83% FT; 36% 3pt

Guard:  6-5 200 lbs Jake Lindsey (SO):  5 ppg; 2 reb; 3 asst; 45% FG; 42% 3pt; 71% FT

Guard:  6-3 180 lbs Chuck Mitchell (FR):  3 ppg; 46% FG; 29% 3pt; 71% FT

Guard:  6-3 215 lbs King McClure (SO):  4 ppg; 40% FG; 29% 3pt; 81% FT
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MBB: #2 Baylor vs Kansas State Preview & Game Thread

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Bears8375
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4:11p, 2/4/17
What a **** play to call...
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4:12p, 2/4/17
Gave ourselves a chance did not.come through
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4:12p, 2/4/17
Iowa St. and K-State desperately needed signature wins and both of them knock off Top 5 teams.
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In reply to Bears8375 • 4:12p, 2/4/17
BearSince2010 said:
What a **** play to call...

Unless it would e worked
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4:13p, 2/4/17
Horrible call. Why run a lob play at the rim? Everybody knows you have to put it right back up.
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4:13p, 2/4/17
Team with better gaurd play wins again

Plus missed FTs
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4:13p, 2/4/17
I'm honestly surprised our team did not look interested in the game until the final 10 minutes. Drew asked for a crowd, it showed up, the team didn't though.
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In reply to Bears8375 • 4:13p, 2/4/17
BearSince2010 said:
What a **** play to call...


Good call. Best player needed to be more physical. BTW, we got a home cooking call that gave us an extra possession and wasted it.
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4:14p, 2/4/17
Sure disappointed with our performance at then end of close games lately.
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4:14p, 2/4/17
Big time wake up call to this team. They need to play for 40 minutes from here on out or it won't be pretty.
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4:14p, 2/4/17
Can need to recruit the best 3% high school kid in the nation.
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4:14p, 2/4/17
Don't understand why we didn't take 4 steps in the lane and dunk that ball. Home team is allowed 4 steps against KState at the end of games.
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4:15p, 2/4/17
We held a B12 team to 19 2nd half points and still couldn't win. We need to come out w/ the passion we played w/ in the 1st half going forward. Push the ball and attack. To much dribbling and standing around early and K-State took advantage. Incredible comeback again but tough to lose it that way.

Great lob to Motley but we are probably one of the only top teams in college who don't have a player to create in a situation like that.
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4:16p, 2/4/17
Love and appreciate Motley, and I know DJ Johnson is physical down there, but man he seems to be missing a lot of bunnies. Makes a lot of high difficulty shots too though.
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4:16p, 2/4/17
Best thing that coud have happened to us. This teams starts slow when it thinks it is better. This is a lesson as to what March Madness will look like if we dont learn to play with energy the entire game.
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4:17p, 2/4/17
how are those not fouls on Motley ? Motley should have been shooting free throws at the end and the play before
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In reply to riflebear • 4:18p, 2/4/17
riflebear said:
Two front end 1n1 misses this half during our run. Can't comeback missing FTs.


Ballgame right here
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In reply to BUAL • 4:18p, 2/4/17
BUAL said:
Best thing that coud have happened to us. This teams starts slow when it thinks it is better. This is a lesson as to what March Madness will look like if we dont learn to play with energy the entire game.
Good thoughts. I truly hope that sinks in from this experience.
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4:19p, 2/4/17
Screw around for 30+ minutes with weak ass guard play and this is what happens. Our guards need to play more with an edge and stop playing soft and sloppy. We would have beaten Kansas and KSU and sitting with one loss at No. 1 on Monday. Motley is awesome but he can't carry an entire team.

Just play McClure or Mitchell instead of Freeman, give Ish smelling salts, and tell Manu to play to his size and athleticism not beyond it.

Scott Drew deserves coach of the year. He's done far more than anyone could with this talent. If we can get sharper and smarter play by our guards and Ish then we can make a serious run in March. If not, then I want as low a seed as possible to avoid the embarrassment of being knocked off by a talented upstart in round one.
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4:20p, 2/4/17
We haven't been playing well in the last 2-3 weeks. Our guard play has to improve. Frankly, coach probably needs a much shorter leash on them. We probably have a sweet 16 cap this year and that's ok. This roster doesn't have one top 100 player on it. Barring a really hot run we are a better named butler type team. Nothing wrong with that.
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4:20p, 2/4/17
If Motley expects to play in the NBA, he has to go up strong and dunk it or get fouled. You can't expect to lay it up soft when the defense is fighting for their NCAA life. I haven't seen him use a pump fake in ages.

If you have a heart condition I would not recommend going to K-State games in Waco. Last 6 seasons have had three 1 possession finishes and 2 more double OT games. We're 3-3 against them at home the last 6 seasons after winning the last 3.

This is going to be a stressful rest of conference for everyone.
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4:23p, 2/4/17
Another week of top teams going down.

#2 Baylor, #3 Kansas and #5 Arizona are going to lose today.
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4:26p, 2/4/17
What you have right now in the B12 are 3 teams that know they are in the big dance and are just playing for seeding and a reg season title but really seeding. Every team besides OU and UT could get in but needs to get some skins on the wall. Two of those teams got their skins today.

Every game from here on out will be played with March type intensity assuming OU and UT do not totally give up but I think even those 2 teams are going to punch their opponent in the mouth a few times before going down and will probably get them an upset or 2.

Played hard both mentally and physically for the full 40 minutes or lose.
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4:28p, 2/4/17
Starting slow and an inability to make free throws consistently will get you beat.

This Baylor team is good. In fact, at times, it is very good. The problem is inconsistency. We just can't seem to put together a really solid performance for 40 minutes.

At home, this is a game we should have won. Disappointing loss.
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4:52p, 2/4/17
Interesting to see where we fall in the rankings.

#5 Arizona is losing by 30 right now @ Oregon. Wow.
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