Live In-Game Updates: No.19 Baylor Bears Host No. 17 TCU Horned Frogs
While the TCU Horned Frogs football team prepares for next week's national championship game, the men's basketball squad is in Waco to take on the No. 19 Baylor Bears.
Both these old rivals are in the Top 20, the first such matchup the teams have had in this, their 191st contest. The Bears laid an egg in the second half of the Big 12 opener in Ames Saturday, losing to Iowa State and dropping seven spots in the rankings as a result.
TCU is coming off a gut-check 67-61 victory over Texas Tech Saturday and their lone loss of the season came to unranked Northwestern State in November.
Unlike football, the Bears own this rivalry. Since the Frogs joined the Big 12 before the 2012-13 season, the Bears are 16-4 against TCU and 8-1 at home. In the Ferrell Center, they have won each of those eight games by double digits.
The Bears are riding the hot hand of freshman guard Keyonte George, who was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week last week when he averaged 18.5 points in the two games. For the season, George is putting up over 15 points and nearly four assists a game.
The biggest reason for TCU's success this season is that they, too, have one of the top guards in the conference in Mike Miles. The junior guard is averaging over 18 points a game, second in the conference behind Kansas's Jalen Wilson.
TCU STARTERS
G Mike Miles, Jr.
G Damion Baugh
F Chuck O'Bannon, Jr.
F Emanuel Miller
C Eddie Lampkin, Jr.
BAYLOR STARTERS
G Keyonte George
G Adam Flagler
G LJ Cryer
F Jalen Bridges
C Flo Thamba
FIRST HALF
UNDER-16: TCU leads 13-12. Keyonte George opens the game with three pointers on the first two possessions and adds another one a few moments later to grab Baylor's first nine points. Mike Miles opens TCU's scoring with a three before picking LJ Cryer's pocket for a steal and an uncontested layup.
UNDER-12: Baylor leads 20-15. Langston Love gets on the scoreboard with a three-pointer after an Eddie Lampkin turnover at the other end. Love's layup on the next possession doesn't go but is tipped in by Ojiunwuna.
UNDER-8: Baylor leads 27-21. Love cleans up a Flagler miss and hits a layup. George hits another step back three to put Baylor up eight. The next time down, George slices through the defense for a layup to give him 14 of the Bears' first 27 points.
UNDER-4: Baylor leads 48-33. Flagler drives through the lane for an up and under layup before Mike Miles answers with a drive of his own. Bridges scores five straight points with a layup and then a corner three-pointer. Flagler hits a three-pointer the next time down. Love hits a three to put the Bears up 17.
TCU finishes off the half on an 8-1 run.
HALFTIME: Baylor 49, TCU 39
SECOND HALF
UNDER-16: Baylor leads 57-50. Thamba converts an and-one play to put the Bears up 12. Miles drives for a layup and the foul and converts the three-point play. Miles hits a three-pointer the next time down. Miles scores 10 straight points to cut the lead to 7.
UNDER-12: Baylor leads 61-56. Miles scores four more to bring his total to 27 points in 27 minutes.
UNDER-8: Baylor leads 68-66. Thamba rejects a layup attempt and George is fouled on the other end, hitting both free throws to put the Bears up four. Xavier Cork breaks the press with a dunk at the other end. Bridges hits an off balance three-pointer, the Bears' first field goal in 9:13.
UNDER-4: Baylor leads 79-76. Ojiunwuna scores out of the timeout with a baseline dunk. Baugh blows by two defenders for a left-handed layup to cut the lead back to four. Lampkin's put-back layup puts the deficit at two. Cryer hits an elbow jumper to give Baylor the lead again. Baugh's transition layup puts TCU up 76-74. Flagler hits a spot up three to put Baylor up 79-76.
George picks Miles' pocket at center court and goes in for a transition layup to put Baylor up five. Next possession, Lampkin gets fouled while making a layup and hits the free throw to cut the lead to two.
TCU calls timeout with 1:04 remaining and Baylor leading 85-83.
Miles hits a step-back three to cut the deficit to one with 38 seconds left. TCU with the ball down one with 10 seconds left. O'Bannon hits a baseline jumper to put TCU up one with 4 seconds left.
FINAL SCORE: TCU 88, BAYLOR 87
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