2023 Summer Shootaround: Baylor is in search of an alpha, but should still be a top-four team in the Big 12
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports, College Basketball, Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, NBA Draft
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Baylor lost Keyonte George, Adam Flagler and L.J. Cryer. Will this be a top-20 team next season? Most of BU's leadership left. So, how will Baylor replenish all that and still finish top-four in a loaded Big 12? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander explain the whys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Gary Parish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Ion College basketball |
| 0:07.9 | podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:12.6 | Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, smash the like button like |
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| 0:19.9 | College basketball YouTube channel. Also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. |
| 0:25.2 | Today we are continuing our summer shoot around series that we'll be doing over a seven |
| 0:29.5 | week span. We've already published episodes on Arizona and Arkansas. We're working in |
| 0:35.2 | alphabetical order here. So now we turn our attention to the Baylor Bears. Last season |
| 0:40.5 | Baylor finished 23 and 11 overall. 11 and seven in the big 12 finish tied for third in |
| 0:46.2 | the league standings. The Bears lost their opening game in the big 12 tournament. Got a |
| 0:50.8 | three seed in the incidental tournament. BUC Santa Barbara in the round of 64, then lost |
| 0:55.6 | a Creighton in the round of 32 finish 16th at Ken Palm. Top three scores for that team |
| 1:00.9 | are gone, but Jalen Bridges, Langston Love and Jonathan Chomwa Chachawa are all back. |
| 1:08.1 | And Scott Drew is enrolling a five star guard and some interesting transfers. I've got Baylor |
| 1:12.6 | ranked 18th in the top 25 and one. We'll see what Norlander thinks about that next. But |
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