1 Baylor Defeats No. However, they advanced to the Big 12 Tournament championship with three straight wins, including a win over No. And he deserves every bit of credit for making it happen. section: | slug: scott-drew-never-let-others-change-his-story-path-or-program-and-thats-how-he-led-baylor-to-its-first-title | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | Arms crossed. 1 in the country for the first time in Baylor history. Additionally, Baylor had placed itself on probation until 2005 and withdrawn from postseason play for the 2003-04 season. Who could be this happy all the time? Less than five minutes later, it sure as hell did. National champion The team then made it to the Elite 8 before losing to the national championship-winning Duke Blue Devils. It led to an NCAA investigation that was known but fairly hush-hush. He's on top of college basketball. Coming off a scandal that included the murder of a player by one of his teammates and a cover-up by the former coach that included the defaming of the murdered player, Baylor was radioactive. On Monday night Baylor became the third team in men's basketball history to knock off an undefeated team in a national championship game, joining 1961 Cincinnati and 1979 Michigan State. "I know the truth.". Division regular season and conference tournament champion Nearly every top player from the 2002-03 Bears had transferred after school officials granted a full release to every player on the team. Seemingly: too phony. After graduation, the family moved into their newly built … Although he never played college basketball at the varsity level, Drew spent two years as a student assistant for the men's basketball team, and also played on the men's tennis team but did not earn a letter. In 2016–17, the Bears began the season 15–0 and led to a No. "I couldn't control that noise, or what other people might say," Drew said. He pointed, too. It still didn't stop the slandering behind his back. (04-05-2021 11:19 PM) IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: Far as I can tell, the AD who made quite possibly the best hire ever, Tom Stanton, resigned that summer and vanished into obscurity. 2:34 am ET, Reaction: No. Jonathan Scott was … "The biggest thing of why is because he enjoys working with young people and helping them grow to become good citizens, later in life. Bryce is the younger brother that hit one of the most memorable shots in NCAA Tournament history, a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that gave No. A third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament followed in 2016, but another early exit followed the Bears 22–12 campaign. [11][12] However, in their first game as No. In 2013–14, the Bears finished with a 26–12 record, again finishing in sixth place in the Big 12. A search committee made the hire IIRC 04-07-2021 04:03 PM : 1845 Bear Moderator. New head coach Scott Drew had a mountain in front of him. An upset by No. Once the elder Drew retired, he became the team's head coach for one year. After the season, Drew signed a 10-year contract extension to stay the head coach of the Bears. Conference regular season champion MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Scott Drew heard the whispers. This was not a rebuild; what Baylor could be, in 2003, was a figment of Drew's imagination. About that, though. Drew Timme had his table overturned multiple times. The NCAA imposed further sanctions in 2005, extending Baylor's probation until 2010, docking the Bears three paid visits in 2006-07 and banning the Bears from non-conference play in the 2005-06 season. When it was over, Drew brought everyone into a huge circle on the court. None of Drew’s previous teams had ever cracked the top 30 in the country in 3-point percentage. ), 0 Times (Tourn.) Could Scott Drew leave Baylor for Indiana at the end of the season? The loss marked the second time in three seasons that the Bears' season ended at the hands of the eventual national champions. Baylor had gone from the trash heap to Big 12 competitor in a short time. Before Scott Drew arrived at Baylor, its team accomplishment could be summarized in a paragraph. 6 seed. 1 in Top 25 for 1st time", "No. 14-seeded Georgia State in the Second Round (formerly the First Round). 1, they lost to No. "We're all human," Drew told CBS Sports. So, yes, winning's important, because you have to win to keep your job. On August 22, 2003, Drew took the head coaching position of the men's team at Baylor University after the resignation of Dave Bliss due to scandal. Even though Baylor couldn't go undefeated, knocking off an undefeated in the ultimate game is the next best thing. Drew stayed. Ten years ago, Baylor's success landing a few highly rated recruits led to some coaches casually accusing him of cheating because of, among other things, who he tried to hire on his staff. Sometimes it would originate from fans, but more often it would be writers and TV pundits. Baylor’s quest to reach the 2021 Final Four in Indianapolis will begin with a vicious start. Drew might have the biggest smile in the sport now, but he also has the worst grip; the man has seemingly never held a grudge. In 2010, after finishing tied for second in the Big 12 with a squad picked to finish tenth in the preseason poll, Scott Drew was elected the Austin American Statesman's Coach of the Year. In 2011, Drew led Baylor to an 18–13 overall record and a seventh-place finish in the Big 12. Baylor head coach Scott Drew holds up a piece of the net after beating Arkansas during an Elite 8 game Monday in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament at … It was enough to make the NCAA Tournament for only the fifth time in school history and the first time since 1988. With these handicaps, Drew led the Bears to 9–19 in the 2004–05 season, and 4–13 in the Big 12 Conference-only 2005–06 season. In the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, Baylor lost to Oklahoma. I dont know about getting better every year, but Scott Drew has been a medicre coach for the most part with some great years thrown in there when he has great talent. This reputation dogged him for a time. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a home he co-owns with Drew (who himself lives elsewhere). Baylor coach Scott Drew has rubbed several of his Big 12 colleagues the wrong way during his tenure in Waco. Too short of a time for some. | Yahoo Sports College Podcast 3 March 2021, 12:49 pm Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Pete Thamel, and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss Baylor’s climb to the top of the college basketball mountain, and if the man who led them there, Scott Drew, could be on the move to the Hoosier state after the season ends. Drew said none of it ever happened. Drew had long abandoned his aspirations to play professional basketball after a string of injuries, but in 2003, an Alberta college recruited him. The Big 12 coaches picked Drew's squad to finish fourth in the conference.[4]. 16-ranked Iowa State. But he was a case study in how rumormongering can set back, if not ruin, a program. Scott Drew. A widely shared video by the Baylor men's basketball Twitter account shows Drew's hope and vision all those yesterdays ago, when he said winning a national championship on his watch was possible. Few people expected Scott Drew to make it to 2008 at Baylor. Yet within two years of that abridged season Drew had Baylor in the NCAA Tournament, the first of what is now nine appearances. Prior to the 2008–09 season, a Rivals.com writer called Drew the Big 12 "coach on the rise" due to Drew's success in recruiting talent to Baylor. Blink and it's 11-1, Bears. And there was Scott Drew. A championship edition of Eye on College Basketball recaps the national championship game. Drew knew this was how some coaches talked about him then. Just a little over four months after the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Tournament, Baylor’s head coach believes despite coronavirus and a global pandemic, college basketball will — at some point — move forward and resume play. Few people expected Scott Drew to make it to 2008 at Baylor. The 21 wins and 9 conference wins were Baylor's best since joining the Big 12 in 1996. Less than five minutes after winning the title, he made his way over to the press bay parked 20 feet behind the baseline. 12-seeded Yale, knocked the Bears out of the Tournament in the First Round. They finished fourth in the Big 12 with a 9-7 record. Most failed to crack the top 100. Also during that season, Drew won his 202nd game at Baylor, vaulting him past Bill Henderson to become the winningest coach in Baylor history. But at the same time, in coaching you're either criticized because you can recruit but can't coach, or you can coach and can't recruit. But the NCAA's investigation turned over nothing close to what was whispered. [2] Although he never played college basketball at the varsity level, Drew spent two years as a student assistant for the men's basketball team, and also played on the men's tennis team but did not earn a letter.[3]. In that year, Valparaiso won the regular season conference championship, but lost to IUPUI in the Mid-Continent Conference tournament, thus losing the bid to the NCAA tournament. Homer Drew - Wikipedia This was head coach Scott Drew's 14th season at Baylor. The boys attended Thomas Haney Secondary School, and they both played on the basketball and volleyball teams. But Baylor was his first choice. Baylor had just gone through its team introductions. Had to. The NCAA's punishment was one-of-a-kind for men's basketball. Jonathan studied performance magic since childhood and, through college and until his career in television began, he performed illusions professionally, eventually relocating to Las Vegas. Whether or not cheating actually occurred at Baylor under Drew, that can never fully be known. But it is no act. [13] Later in the season Baylor would beat West Virginia at home to notch their fourth win over a top 10 team on the season. All Rights Reserved. Drew grew the ire of institutional pillars early in his Baylor career. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion [8] Drew, who issued a statement accepting full responsibility for the infractions, was cited for failure to monitor the men's program[9] and suspended by the Big 12 for the first two conference games in the 2012-13 season.[10]. He probably honestly believed it then, and he probably honestly was the only person on earth who did. Who's the biggest cheater in college basketball? Baylor Bears Coach Scott Drew Tells Charles Barkley They ‘Could Have Been Undefeated’ if Not for COVID. The greatest program reinvention in men's college basketball history was complete. It's one of only two schools in a major conference in the past 13 years to win at least 18 games every season. In the Big 12 Tournament, they defeated No. "Hurdle after hurdle after, but he never questioned whether it could be done," his father, Homer, a coaching legend in his own right, told CBS Sports. NCAA Champion: 2021. Scott Drew, Baylor anticipating vicious opening schedule. While most of his other teammates moved in place or walked around their teammates, Mitchell stood still. Postseason invitational champion 10-ranked West Virginia. But it's 2021 and he's rolling and pushing past many who for … But it's 2021 and he's rolling and pushing past many who for years believed he'd never make it to the first Monday night in April. Scott Drew, orchestrator of Baylor's long-term turnaround for the ages, said both he and Gonzaga coach Mark Few agreed -- after their game was canceled four … There are a few coaches holding court and gossiping while half-watching another game larded with four- and five-star prospects. If you're Baylor coach Scott Drew, you might be feeling a little like a first-term president.Just a few months ago, Drew was riding high. Reflecting immediately upon the beatdown Baylor bludgeoned the Bulldogs with Monday night, that 21-day February COVID pause might have been the only thing standing in the way of an undefeated season. A quote that's stuck with me for almost 10 years. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed, they were upset by No. At the end of the regular season, when Drew made an appearance on the sports show Pardon The Interruption (PTI), host Tony Kornheiser suggested on the air that Drew be voted "unanimous coach of the year." This year, though, Baylor shot 41.3 percent from 3, … "I think it bothered me a lot more than it bothered him," Bryce Drew, his brother, said. He was getting players Baylor wasn't supposed to get. That year he went on to beat the Longhorns three straight times. And now, Baylor's playing as well as any power-conference program. Drew graduated from Butler University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts. Scott Drew’s ambition was never to produce a few successful seasons at Baylor and jump at the first job offer from a big-time basketball school. 13 seed Valpo a win over Ole Miss in the 1998 tourney. It's July 2012 and I'm leaning against the wooden bleachers at the Nike Peach Jam. Final Four hero Jalen Suggs had foul trouble early and was wobbled immediately thanks to Mitchell. It got so bad, people connected to recruits would go to Baylor looking for handouts, assuming that was the game. Baylor gave Mark Few's team its largest deficit of the season less than 10 minutes into the night and never looked back. Nothing major ever came of it. 9 West Virginia hands No. The thing I'm most proud of is how he has touched the lives of his players not only this year, but within that struggle to get them up and you can see a lot of these people are alumni who have come back to honor him for that.". Turn your head and now it's 16-4. © 2004-2021 CBS Interactive. Baylor blows out Gonzaga in shocking, dominant fashion. Drew's brother, Bryce Drew, is the head coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes men's basketball team at Grand Canyon University. Published 04/17/2021, 4:00 PM EDT . He took a minute to thank the media for its coverage and belief in his program, in him. Drew received his first taste as a Division I coach as a student manager for the Butler basketball team. Anyone who has been paying attention to Baylor over the last two decades knows how good Drew is. He took a … Scott Drew - Best hire in college basketball history? Shortly after Drew's first season, Baylor extended its self-imposed probation until 2006 and docked itself several scholarships and paid recruiting visits through 2006. He and Drew have released two country singles as the group The Scott Brothers. 1 in AP poll for first time", "Baylor ranked No. 9 Kansas and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. They'd be the ones to break Gonzaga's heart. Hours before the game, Baylor was informed that star player, Perry Jones III, would not be allowed to play for accepting impermissible benefits, a decision that was later reversed. Division regular season champion Baylor was an at large 3-seed to the NCAA tournament, losing in the Sweet 16. Leaping into the arms of his staff. Obviously this was inaccurate and it was changed back, but at Heartland College Sports, we don’t miss a beat and snagged this screenshot beforehand. Most important thing we learned: Scott Drew is an elite coach. But it took Drew years to shed some stigma. 3-seeded Kansas in the semifinals, but lost to Missouri in the championship game. However, Baylor finished the season on a 13–8 run in their last 21 games and finished in a tie for third in the Big 12. Baylor is the best, and Scott Drew will finally be recognized for being a great coach. They kneeled and said a prayer. They accepted a bid to the NIT where they would advance to the championship game and defeat Iowa to win the NIT. The Bears went 4-13. 1 Gonzaga To Win 2021 College Basketball Title, widely shared video by the Baylor men's basketball Twitter account, Five-star picks G League over college suitors, Ranking college basketball's top committed transfers, Arizona transfer James Akinjo picks Baylor, Former UK player Terrence Clarke dead at 19, Calapari, Stevens react to Clarke's death, Changes coming to Kentucky coaching staff, Baylor's Drew is college basketball's happiest man, Five-star Michael Foster picks G League over college, Death of UK's Clarke shocks basketball community, More changes coming to Kentucky coaching staff, UF star Keyontae Johnson won't declare for NBA Draft. In 2011–12, the Bears started the season 17–0 and rose to third in the AP Poll and the coaches' poll—the highest weekly rankings in school history at that time. A car, a job, anything. It hurt the most, though, from his peers, spoken by those in the coaching industry, especially when they were going head-to-head against Baylor in recruiting battles. (US Presswire) CBSSports.com's college basketball quartet of … https://sports.yahoo.com/could-scott-drew-leave-baylor-204923856.html Just 32 years old then, Drew was doe-eyed but determined. INDIANAPOLIS -- The red glare coming off the scorer's table couldn't match the one coming from Davion Mitchell's eyes minutes before Baylor throttled Gonzaga and ended the Bulldogs' undefeated dream season. Alma Mater: Butler (1993) Career Record (major schools): 19 Years, 392-226, .634 W-L% Schools: Valparaiso (20-11) and Baylor (372-215) Conference Champion: 2 Times (Reg. Charlie Neibergall/AP Problem is the other coaches won't leave it at that. Early life. In April 2012, the NCAA put the Baylor men's and women's basketball programs on three years probation and implemented scholarship reductions after an investigation revealed major recruiting violations and impermissable involvement of talent scouts at the basketball clinics they hosted. The 50-year-old in the hat on a ladder, net in hand, who saw this moment in his mind at 32. WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor and coach Scott Drew have refused to accept a vehicle wrapped with the school’s national championship logo after an insensitive remark made by the dealership’s general manager when discussing it during a live TV interview. Sometimes $30,000 or $50,000. Baylor made the … The job Drew's done at Baylor in the 18 years since -- impressive is an understatement. Conference tournament champion, Not to be confused with Canadian reality television personality, Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball head coaches, Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year, Baylor Bears basketball 2020–21 NCAA champions, 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, "Ranking 2019 NCAA tournament coaches as players, 1-68", "American Statesman's All Big 12 men's basketball team", "King: The story behind Baylor's Perry Jones III", "Probation, no postseason bans for Baylor", "Baylor ranked No. 2016–17 Baylor Bears basketball team - … Jonathan was hard working from his childhood, he sold nylon-wrapped cloth hanger with his twin brother. People always say to the victor go the spoils. While at Butler he was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. 6-keys: media/spln/collegebasketball/reg/free/stories, at Official matchups for the event are to be determined. The NCAA said men's coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season, in addition to recruiting restrictions. Simply put, Drew reaching the Final Four closes the circle on perhaps the greatest turnaround in college basketball history. The confidence and casual nature of the accusation has always stuck with me. He was too happy, too peppy. [14], Drew is a Christian and is married to Kelly Drew. A quiet reinvention took place, and in recent years the school found its formula. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. Who'd have believed it? He'd never let on that it bothered him, though. Bobby Knight went after him, and so did Rick Pitino and Rick Barnes. Scott Homer Drew (born October 23, 1970) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Baylor Bears. "We went through a three-year NCAA investigation, and I think that's when people stopped making allegations about us," Drew said. Many people in Drew's position would have scooted out for another job. The Bears made the Final Four in 1948 and 1950. What was once a figment of his imagination is now material reality. Seas. There was no set of instructions when he got there, because there wasn't even a drawer to put them in. While at Butler he was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. During the 2012–13 season, Baylor fell to 23–14, 9–9 in Big 12 play to finish in sixth place. He spent nine years in this position, during which he earned a master's degree from Valparaiso and a reputation as one of the best recruiters in the nation. When you get criticized, no it doesn't feel good. However, I would keep a close eye on Scott Drew’s name continuing to come up for the Indiana job. 1 in the country. Drew graduated from Butler University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts. Over time you hopefully show you can do both.". A walk-on's dream -- because they played. Drew and his staff were willing to take anyone from anywhere. In the Tournament, the defeated Nebraska and Creighton, before losing to Wisconsin in the Sweet Sixteen. Drew's optimism never wavered. He never let the noise get to him. Then 2008 became 2012, and then 2016. Then 2008 became 2012, and then 2016. Education, School/College University. Drew became less interested in landing the best players and instead pivoted toward getting the best players for Baylor. For Baylor men’s basketball coach Scott Drew, he was in line […] Whenever you win a national championship, you win a lot more than just a ring and a banner. [6] The team did not participate in a postseason tournament. Homer, the longtime coach of Valparaiso, is the father of Bears coach Scott Drew, who got his start as his dad’s assistant with the Crusaders. Scott Drew's Baylor Bears Dominate Houston to Reach National Championship BCSNN delivers news, commentary, scores, stats, and standings for NCAA and college … The 2020-21 Baylor Bears basketball team was ranked number 2nd or 3rd in the nation the majority of the season behind Gonzaga. Now it was time for the top-seeded, top-ranked, 31-0 Zags to be introduced. 1 Baylor its first loss", "Baylor men's basketball returns to Waco with program's first national championship", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_Drew&oldid=1019551384, College men's basketball head coaches in the United States, Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball coaches, Wikipedia introduction cleanup from April 2021, Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from April 2021, All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 April 2021, at 00:06. 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