Postgame Takeaways: #3 Baylor 81, #17 OSU 70

#3 Baylor (20-1; 12-1) takes down #17 Oklahoma State (17-7; 10-7) 81-70 in Waco.  The Big12 Champion Baylor Bears have one more game in Waco this season- Texas Tech on Sunday March 7th at 3pm CST.  

Positives

• Great composure to sweep the Cowboys, a hot basketball team that had won 5 straight before the Bears beat them.  
• Butler, Mitchell, Teague, Mayer were all terrific.  Flagler and Vital gave important contributions as well.  
• Defensive rebounding- holding OSU to 7 offensive rebounds.  
• Making 8 straight free throws down the stretch
• MaCio Teague one of his best games in a Baylor uniform- did everything well.  Great interior passer.  
• Explosiveness from Butler going to the rim, giving future opponents another thing to worry about.  
• 11 steals is terrific

Needs Work

• Got a little sloppy at times after building a double digit lead.  Need to put teams away when the opportunity is there.  
• Need better contributions from the bigs- Thamba and Jonathan didn’t have two of their better games.  
• Defensively you would love to see the Bears hold teams under 1 point per possession.  OSU was at 1.01.  
• 14 turnovers, need to be under 10.