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Gameday Thread: #2 Baylor (7-0) vs Alcorn State (0-4)

December 29, 2020
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#2 Baylor (7-0) hosts Alcorn State (0-4) December 30th at 2pm CST at the Ferrell Center.  The game will be televised on ESPN+

Prediction:  Baylor 93 Alcorn State 55

Coaches

Alcorn State:  Landon Bussie (32); 0-4

Baylor:  Scott Drew (50); 371-222 overall (351-211 at Baylor); 8 NCAAs; 4 Sweet 16s; 2 Elite 8s

Head to Head:  0-0

Alcorn State Starters

Name Pos Class Ht/Wt PPG RPG APG FG% 3pt% FT%
Byron Joshua PG FR 5-10/185 5.0 1.5 2.3 39 0 60
Arne Morris SG SR 6-3/190 2.5 1.0 0.5 25 0 40
David Pierce  SF JR 6-3/215 8.5 2.8 0.3 34 29 50
Troymain Crosby PF SR 6-4/200 18.7 2.7 0.3 38 25 64
Tyree Corbett C JR 6-7/180 9.3 6.8 0 53 40 60

Alcorn State Bench

Name Pos Class Ht/Wt PPG RPG APG FG% 3pt% FT%
Kurk Lee G JR 5-10/150 14.0 2.0 1.0 55 67 0
Jacoby Ross G SR 5-10/165 14.0 1.0 1.0 36 25 100
Oddyst Walker G JR 6-3/175 7.5 3.0 0 18 11 100
Anthony Fairley F SR 6-8/180 4.3 5.7 0.3 63 0 100

Baylor Starters

Name Pos Class Ht/Wt PPG RPG APG FG% 3pt% FT%
Davion Mitchell PG JR 6-2/205 12.1 3.6 6.9 59 57 60
Jared Butler SG JR 6-3/195 15.1 3.6 6.3 48 46 73
MaCio Teague SF SR 6-4/195 16.0 4.9 1.6 52 40 84
Mark Vital PF SR 6-5/250 5.4 5.1 1.4 41 0 57
Flo Thamba C JR 6-10/245 3.3 4.4 0.3 69 0 36

Baylor Bench

Name Pos Class Ht/Wt PPG RPG APG FG% 3pt% FT%
Adam Flagler G SO 6-3/180 14.2 2.2 3.0 56 47 88
Jon Tchamwa F SO 6-8/245 10.9 7.7 0.4 65 0 78
Matt Mayer F JR 6-9/225 9.1 3.3 1.1 49 44 64
LJ Cryer G FR 6-1/180 8.8 0.8 1.6 53 52 75

 

 

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Gameday Thread: #2 Baylor (7-0) vs Alcorn State (0-4)

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historian
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3:52p, 12/30/20
Nice to see Turner draining the 3's.

Time for the mullet cam!
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
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3:53p, 12/30/20
3:41 for Mullet guy to score
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In reply to Johnny Bear • 3:56p, 12/30/20
Johnny Bear said:
Don't get me wrong - I love watching Mitchell play on both ends of the floor, but what is he doing still on the floor at this point in this kind of a blowout?
You want the young guys to get minutes, but you want them to be productive minutes. It's good to have a leader like Mitchell in there to provide structure. My 2 cents anyways.
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3:56p, 12/30/20
alcorn press giving us some trouble
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3:56p, 12/30/20
A basket by Loveday puts the Baylor Bears at the 100-point mark this afternoon.
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3:57p, 12/30/20
Davion Mitchell finishes with his 2nd career double-double at Baylor. He had 10 points and 10 assists.
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3:58p, 12/30/20
Officials have lost it
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3:59p, 12/30/20
8 points now for Loveday.
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4:00p, 12/30/20
Did Mullet play high school ball?
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4:00p, 12/30/20
Loveday with 10 points! 6 Baylor players in double figure scoring now.
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4:03p, 12/30/20
It will be great if Mullet finally gets a bucket.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
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4:03p, 12/30/20
Final from the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas: #2 ranked Baylor Bears 105, Alcorn State Braves 76. The Baylor Bears will take an 8-0 record into the 2021 portion of the college basketball season.
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4:04p, 12/30/20
Turner fouled out? LOL
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4:05p, 12/30/20
No bucket for mullet but he did get an assist!
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4:05p, 12/30/20
Turner gets the Willie Sublett Award for fouling out in < 10 minutes.
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In reply to ColoradoGRN&GLD • 4:07p, 12/30/20
ColoradoGRN&GLD said:
Johnny Bear said:
Don't get me wrong - I love watching Mitchell play on both ends of the floor, but what is he doing still on the floor at this point in this kind of a blowout?
You want the young guys to get minutes, but you want them to be productive minutes. It's good to have a leader like Mitchell in there to provide structure. My 2 cents anyways.
Good point, but I'm just concerned about the potential for a fluke injury to a key player in what was obviously garbage time of a blowout win.
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In reply to whitetrash • 4:16p, 12/30/20
whitetrash said:
Turner gets the Willie Sublett Award for fouling out in < 10 minutes.
Tristan Clark fouled out more quickly last year against Texas (or the year before?) and with no points. It happens. At least he gave us some good minutes with those great 3's.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
Psalm 119:36
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4:17p, 12/30/20
Baylor finished with 55.7% shooting. They were 42.9% from 3-Point Range. Finally, Baylor was 80.6% from the Free Throw Line. Big XII Conference play for the bulk of 2021 college basketball play before the postseason.
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In reply to StatMan • 4:19p, 12/30/20
If they can maintain numbers like that for the rest of the season, it will be something. Realistically, we cannot expect that to happen, though.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
Psalm 119:36
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4:34p, 12/30/20
We will most certainly see a regression toward the mean as the level of competition gets better. There have been so many uncontested 3s in the last several games. It's unreasonable to expect that trend to continue. LJ's 0-5 from beyond the arc today is evidence of that presupposition. Rough game for him today.

All our guys will hit rough spots as the season progresses. We're just blessed that we have 6 very talented scorers and half of them are also playing defense at a very good to elite level. Two are average to very good, and Cryer's deficiencies on defense are usually more than made up for on the offensive end.
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In reply to historian • 4:37p, 12/30/20
historian said:
If they can maintain numbers like that for the rest of the season, it will be something. Realistically, we cannot expect that to happen, though.
I don't think I've ever seen a college team with more legit elite 3 point shooters than this team. We could literally have 3 of them have an off game at the same time and still potentially destroy the opponent with 3 point shooting.
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5:02p, 12/30/20
That was a disappointing defensive effort today. They outscored us in the 2nd half, that were the most points they have scored this season and they have played some bad teams.
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In reply to Gobearsone • 5:18p, 12/30/20
I remember seeing a video clip earlier this month with Jared Butler saying their goal was to keep opponents to below 60 points. They have done a pretty good job of that this season so far (admittedly against mostly creampuffs) but definitely not today. Yesterday the defensive improvement in the 2nd half was obvious. Today it seems like Drew wanted to give the bench more playing time and was willing to accept the defensive drop off. I guess it was worth the tradeoff--especially seeing Turner shoot the 3's and Cryer & Loveday make some good plays. This may be important in February or March.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
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In reply to Gobearsone • 5:22p, 12/30/20
Gobearsone said:
That was a disappointing defensive effort today. They outscored us in the 2nd half, that were the moist points they have scored this season and they have played some bad teams.
In our defense, it has been raining hard most of the day here.
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5:26p, 12/30/20
While I enjoyed watching the past 3 blowouts, it is equally important to gauge just exactly what we've played: the 3 teams have a combined record of 2-19 this year.

So, we took care of business against teams we should have taken care of business. Not sure it gave us much insight into the upcoming Big 12 schedule but in these COVID times it was good we could get some games in before conference play.
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In reply to whitetrash • 5:42p, 12/30/20
whitetrash said:
Gobearsone said:
That was a disappointing defensive effort today. They outscored us in the 2nd half, that were the moist points they have scored this season and they have played some bad teams.
In our defense, it has been raining hard most of the day here.
Moist or most, disappointing.
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In reply to whitetrash • 5:49p, 12/30/20
whitetrash said:
Gobearsone said:
That was a disappointing defensive effort today. They outscored us in the 2nd half, that were the moist points they have scored this season and they have played some bad teams.
In our defense, it has been raining hard most of the day here.
Moist or most, disappointing.
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In reply to DanaDane • 6:05p, 12/30/20
He was a a top 150 recruit with some pretty good offers. He has a really nice stroke so I am assuming he will be a stretch 4. I am not sure he has the frame to gain a ton more weight to bang some low, but likely won't need him for that any way.
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In reply to TXBEAR_bf • 6:36p, 12/30/20
TXBEAR_bf said:
He was a a top 150 recruit with some pretty good offers. He has a really nice stroke so I am assuming he will be a stretch 4. I am not sure he has the frame to gain a ton more weight to bang some low, but likely won't need him for that any way.
Stretch 4 will be just fine. He has the mobility and a nice stroke for it. If he can't put on weight, he's just gonna need to gain strength. You could see him getting pushed around easily in all the games he's played, which isn't all that unusual for a young, big who is learning to play at a collegiate level where he's not 8 inches taller than everyone else playing.
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In reply to DanaDane • 7:57p, 12/30/20
It gave the players a chance to play a real game without a great risk. It gave them a chance to dust off the cobwebs after the holidays. It gave the bench plenty of time. It gave the coaches a chance to try new things & to evaluate the team. The cream puffs provides a lot of benefits & that's why every team plays them.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
Psalm 119:36
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In reply to historian • 9:07a, 12/31/20
historian said:
It gave the players a chance to play a real game without a great risk. It gave them a chance to dust off the cobwebs after the holidays. It gave the bench plenty of time. It gave the coaches a chance to try new things & to evaluate the team. The cream puffs provides a lot of benefits & that's why every team plays them.

Games like the last few are the equivalent of glorified scrimmages, but they are important as opportunities to evaluate different lineup combinations under game conditions and to give some decent minutes to the deep bench. Would've been nice to have also had more true non-con tests for this team, but the "covid gods" have had other ideas.
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In reply to Johnny Bear • 9:46a, 12/31/20
I said basically the same thing but you are more articulate than I am.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
Psalm 119:36
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