The building of Baylor's team

[HooperScooper]

Interesting read. Sort of like the stuff written about Texas Tech last year, who didn't have a single top 100 recruit on their roster.

Baylor’s past four high school recruiting classes have an average ranking of 71. Sure, they’ve picked up top-100 players – Jared Butler, Matthew Mayer, Tristan Clark and Mark Vital – but not the elite level recruits that you’d think would catapult a team to No. 1 in the country.

#AskEvan: How Scott Drew built Baylor the unconventional way

Scott Drew has inked lofty recruiting classes in the past. He’s reeled in top 10 players and five-star recruits. Ironically, as Baylor sits at No. 1 in the country

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[HooperScooper]

“I think the big thing is we try to identify people with what we want our basketball culture to be like and who we thought character wise fit what we are trying to do, work ethic wise and I think the biggest common denominator is we got guys who are hard workers and they’re good kids which means they like one another. If you got guys who like one another and work hard, good things happen.”

Sounds like another coach I know.

 

[Road2Six]

“I think the big thing is we try to identify people with what we want our basketball culture to be like and who we thought character wise fit what we are trying to do, work ethic wise and I think the biggest common denominator is we got guys who are hard workers and they’re good kids which means they like one another. If you got guys who like one another and work hard, good things happen.”

Sounds like another coach I know.

Scary resemblance to Dan Hurley. He must know what he’s doing after all.

 

[ZenConn]

It took almost 15 years but yeah Baylor is back. I thought I'd never see the day where Baylor would be one of the top programs in the nation especially after Bliss and the murders. Incredible journey.

 

[sledog]

ho-rah. waiting to see (+) how the local goes. So far, so hopeful.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Great game with KU right now. Baylor is really athletic. The Kansas and Texas AGs bet BBQ on the game.

 

[storrsroars]

Great game with KU right now. Baylor is really athletic. The Kansas and Texas AGs bet BBQ on the game.

I watched most of the final eight minutes. Honestly, from what I saw, Baylor had some highlight reel offensive plays (two touch pass assists on one score, a 40-foot alley oop pass on another), but I felt that UConn's defense (with Akok) might've done a better job down the stretch than what Baylor's did, even without a great matchup to handle the load that is Azubuike. I was not overly impressed with Baylor's guards defense, despite the team's high defensive ranking. Granted, this is also the only time I've seen Baylor play.