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Last Updated: March 22, 2024, 00:00 IST
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Scott Drew has been at Baylor since 2003 and the coach made clear Thursday he is staying put as he dismissed a query about being linked to Louisville’s job opening.
Scott Drew has been at Baylor since 2003 and the coach made clear Thursday he’s staying put as he dismissed a query about being linked to Louisville’s job opening.
He didn’t discuss what Baylor might need executed to maintain him from changing Kenny Payne, who was fired by Louisville. Drew is targeted on his third-seeded Bears and Friday’s NCAA Tournament opener in opposition to No. 14 Colgate within the West Region.
“I’m really blessed because I’ve got a great agent, like most coaches do,” Drew stated. “They handle all that stuff and just let us coach and focus. During the season, that’s all I do is spend time focusing on Baylor.”
Drew completed sounding somewhat bit just like the lead character within the film “Forrest Gump.”
“And that’s all I’m going to say about that,” Drew stated.
Drew gained the nationwide championship with Baylor in 2021 and brought the Bears to 12 NCAA Tournaments. His Bears have misplaced within the second spherical every of the final two years.
Colgate often is the 14th seed within the West Region. It’s the quantity 13 that’s treasured by the Patriot League college in Hamilton, New York.
The college opened in 1817 with 13 males contributing $1 every for $13 and saying 13 prayers to discovered the Baptist Education Society. They had 13 articles to the college’s structure, and 13 even is painted on the Raiders’ courtroom.
It won’t be nice for somebody affected by triskaidekaphobia — a worry of the quantity 13 — however Colgate embraces a quantity seen as unhealthy luck by many. It is solely college lore celebrated with Colgate Day each Friday the thirteenth.
Coach Matt Langel stated he isn’t a suspicious man, however he realizes the significance of the quantity to the college.
“This has been a special season, not because it has anything to do with 13, because of the guys that I get to coach every day, the coaching staff I get to work with,” Langel stated. “All coaches who sit up here will say that it’s a brotherhood and a family that they have. It truly is.”
This is Langel’s thirteenth 12 months at Colgate. So the Raiders are hoping that brings extra luck to the No. 14 seed Friday in opposition to Baylor in Memphis, Tennessee.
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