Waco, Texas ? Kansas University basketball coach Roy Williams wishes he had as good a bench as, say, Texas.

And Baylor coach Dave Bliss wishes he had as good a bench as the Jayhawks.

“When you play Kansas,” Bliss said following Tuesday night’s 79-58 loss to the Jayhawks at the Ferrell Center, “the pace is appreciable, and our bench isn’t as good as their bench.”

Indeed, KU’s reserves outscored Baylor’s reserves 16-0. Moreover, Baylor’s bench was guilty of five turnovers.

The Jayhawks’ relentless pace caught up with the Bears during the last three minutes of the first half. KU outscored Baylor, 10-0, during that span and raced into intermission with a 41-28 bulge.

“We were scratching and clawing and piecemealing our offense together,” Bliss said. “Then they had that 10-0 run and a 5-0 run to start the second half, and that’s pretty much the ballgame.”

Basically, the Jayhawks demoralized Baylor by stealing the ball and racing to the other end of the floor for easy layups. Of the Bears’ 15 turnovers, nine were KU steals.

“At first blush I’m impressed how they play at the defensive end,” Bliss said. “There wasn’t anything easy out there tonight.”

Kansas did start slowly, turning the ball over five times in the first six minutes, but Baylor couldn’t capitalize. The Bears missed their first four shots, three of them three-pointers. But they were hanging close until that late first-half KU outburst.

“We was right there in the game, and we broke down,” Baylor point guard John Lucas said. “I thought we were playing good defense, and we just broke down.”

Lucas struggled with his shooting, missing eight of 11 three-point attempts. The 5-foot-11 sophomore has been shooting better than 40 percent from beyond the arc.

R.T. Guinn, a 6-foot-10 junior center and the Bears’ lone non-sophomore starter, scored 15 points and had a game-high 10 rebounds, but all five of his baskets were three-pointers.

So even though Guinn recorded his first double-double of the season, Kansas outscored the Bears 50-12 in the paint — the most points Baylor has surrendered under the basket this season.

The Bears, 10-10 overall and 1-8 in the Big 12 Conference, simply shot too many blanks. They made only 31.5 percent (17 of 54) of their shots.

“We wanted to build a lead,” Bliss said, “but we weren’t able to do that because they’re that good.”

After back-to-back games against two of last year’s NCAA Final Four teams — Oklahoma drilled the Bears 91-42 last Saturday — Baylor now faces road trips to Oklahoma State and Kansas State.