More than six months removed from hitting a three that extinguished any hope Gonzaga would beat Baylor in the national title game, Adam Flagler is preparing for what will probably be his final season in Waco.
He’s no longer the sixth man that Five Guys wanted, as Baylor’s overwhelming quartet of guards left him coming off the bench during the Bear’s championship campaign. Instead he figures to be one of the two best players on a team that thinks it can finish in the same spot it did a year prior.
To understand Flagler—a man so nice and complimentary that you’d feel terrible for him if he were your boss having to fire you—let’s start with how a Georgian at Presbyterian ended up at a Baptist school in Texas.