AUSTIN - No. 25 Baylor took 51 shots from the floor and made 32 of them Saturday in a 78-64 win against 24th-ranked Texas but even that blazing-hot statistic line paled in comparison to the performance of Bears' forward Johnathan Motley.

Motley scored 24 points and made his first 11 field-goal attempts on the way to a 12 of 13 showing that helped propel Baylor to a crucial win that was easier than the final outcome indicates.

The Bears, with Motley scoring 12 points, took a 40-22 at halftime and never looked back. Baylor shot 65 percent from the floor and outrebounded Texas 14-5 in the opening 20 minutes, in the process taking the sold-out crowd of 16,540 at the Erwin Center out of the game.

"I had no idea I had made my first 11 shots - I was just trying to take what Texas was giving me and keep playing hard," Motley said. "I want to stay aggressive and attack the basket. My ability to stay out of foul trouble in recent games has allowed me to develop a better rhythm with my shot."

The Bears also outscored Texas 26-8 in the paint as the Longhorns never led.

"It was important for us to get the easy buckets and the stops we got early in the game - it gave us the momentum we needed," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "Texas made some really tough shots when they beat us at our place (on Feb. 1) and we made those types of shots today."

Baylor is now 20-0 in games in which it has held a lead at any time in the second half. The Bears dominated Texas throughout despite the fact that leading rebounder forward Rico Gathers did not start the game and played just seven minutes while suffering from the flu.

"We took what the defense gave us," Drew added. "We were having success inside and when you shoot 63 percent, you're happy as a coach. Any win on the road in this league is special - any team in any game in this league can beat you at any time."

Forward Taurean Prince added 17 points for Baylor (20-7, 9-5 Big 12) while guard Lester Medford scored 13 points for the Bears, which reached the 20-victory mark for the fifth straight season and eighth time in their past nine campaigns.

"This was one of our better games," Prince said. "It was Texas, you know? We don't like them and they don't like us but we were focused from the minute we got here today."

Baylor finished with a 62.7 percent showing from the floor to Texas' 41.7 percent and ended up with a 50-32 advantage in scoring in the paint.

"Our hesitant mindset on offense carried over to the rest of our play," said Texas forward Connor Lammert, who scored nine points. "We didn't attack their zone the way we needed to and settled for some tough shots.

"Defensively, we let Baylor get inside too easily and gave them way too many layups."

Reserve forward Shaquille Cleare led Texas (17-10, 8-6) with season-high 14 points, marking the first time in his Longhorns' career that he has led the team in scoring. Reserve guard Eric Davis Jr. added 11 points while point guard Isaiah Taylor hit for 10 points.

Texas was just 4 of 18 from behind the 3-point arc.

Baylor took it to Texas in the early going, scoring the first six points of the game and then by building a 16-point lead, at 28-12, on a 3-pointer by guard Ishmail Wainright with 7:26 to play in the half. Texas cut the lead to 12 on a jumper by Taylor at the 6:02 mark, but Baylor kept pushing the ball inside for easy buckets.

Motley paced the Bears with 12 points in the half. Texas was led in the half by Taylor's six points.

"(Baylor) got the best of us today - we came out sluggish and weren't ready to play," Taylor said. "We just never responded. We have to start the game with a better sense of urgency and more fight. We were too passive and waiting for something to happen."

NOTES: Texas beat Baylor 67-59 in Waco on Feb. 1 as the Bears had season-low points and field-goal percentage (35.2). ... Baylor joins West Virginia as the nation's only teams with every loss against top-30 RPI teams. The Bears' have lost at Kansas (1), at Oregon (3), vs. Oklahoma (4), at West Virginia (10), vs. Texas (21), at Texas A&M (25) and vs. Texas Tech (27). ... Baylor F Rico Gathers ranks 21st on Baylor's all-time scoring list (1,147) and has grabbed a school-record 1,096 career rebounds. He ranks third in Big 12 history behind Kansas' Nick Collison (1,143) and Texas' Damion James (1,318). ... Last Saturday's game at No. 14 Iowa State marked the fifth straight true road contest against an AP Top 15 opponent for the Longhorns, a first in program history. ... Baylor was the first opponent Texas played in the program's inaugural 1906 season. The Longhorns won the first game of the series, 27- 17, on March 10, 1906, in Austin.