How Baylor Bounced Back from the Brink
The Lead
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🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The Baylor men's basketball team has been one of the best teams in the country all year, and much of the success can be attributed to head coach Scott Drew. The Athletic’s CJ Moore joins us to talk about how Drew rebuilt the program after the tragic murder of a player 17 years ago, how listening to his players helped transform the way the team plays defense, and Coach Drew's unusual combination of competitive fire and goofiness.
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| 0:00.0 | There was a big matchup in college basketball on Saturday. |
| 0:09.8 | It was a close game with Baylor missing a shot at the buzzer to lose, but despite the |
| 0:23.5 | loss, the Baylor Bears have been one of the surprise stories of the year. |
| 0:30.0 | And behind their success has been head coach Scott Drew, who is known for his intensity |
| 0:35.4 | among other things. Today, the Athletic CJ Moore joins us to talk about how Drew rebuilt the |
| 0:41.3 | Baylor program after the tragic murder of a player 17 years ago, what's been key to this year's |
| 0:48.0 | success and how coach Drew runs on a strange blend of competitive fire and apparent wholesomeness. |
| 1:03.6 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Andres Keltow. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. It's Monday, February 24th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:11.8 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:15.2 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment the matter goes, we've got this now. |
| 1:22.9 | You can't pay everything I've got. |
| 1:25.0 | That's not good news. This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:30.3 | It stays with you. |
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| 1:42.4 | The app today. |
| 2:12.4 | What's the psychology of a terrorist? |
| 2:42.4 | So CJ, you've had a number of chances to sit down with Baylor head coach Scott Drew. |
| 2:54.6 | First of all, how does he like to get his players hyped up? |
| 2:59.3 | Any number of creative ways he had one of his assistants go out and buy a like metal trash |
| 3:06.3 | can and he would have him bang the trash can. |
| 3:11.4 | I like noise. |
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