The Gonzaga Bulldogs and Baylor Bears have been on a collision course to play in this game—the final contest of the 2020-21 college basketball season—since the day the season began back in November. We were supposed to get it on December 5, before COVID had other ideas, but we weren’t going to be denied. Now, for the ninth time in NCAA Tournament history, there will be a 1 v. 1 matchup in the final.
Gonzaga and Baylor were clearly in a class of their own this season despite the best efforts from pundits to shoehorn in the Big 10 flavor of the week as one of their contemporaries.