One of the greatest rebuilding stories in college basketball history has added another chapter: a Final Four.
Baylor, a program with just one men's NCAA tournament berth since 1950 before Scott Drew took over amid a scandal and NCAA punishments, is now headed to the Final Four. The Bears kept a feisty Arkansas team at arm’s length the entire way, leading from wire-to-wire to win the South Region.
The No. 1 seed Bears scored the game’s first seven points and forced an Arkansas timeout less than four minutes in with a quick 13–2 lead. And while foul trouble for star guard Davion Mitchell would slow a Baylor attack that at one point held a 29–11 lead in this one, the Hogs appeared to be hanging on for dear life against the 26–2 Bears.