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Coverage of Gonzaga’s 2021 national championship game opponent, the Baylor Bears

Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Gonzaga-Baylor rewind: Anton Watson picks up slack for Bulldogs’ frontcourt in narrow loss

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Gonzaga’s upcoming schedule doesn’t necessarily qualify as easy, as the Bulldogs prepare to host Kent State and Washington teams that sit inside the top 107 of KenPom’s rankings, but Friday’s 64-63 loss to Baylor signified the end of a seven-game stretch that’s been as demanding as any in the country to open the 2022-23 season.
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“Great Timme awareness”: Baylor’s team defense limits Gonzaga star to nine points

If he wasn’t already, Baylor coach Scott Drew might be fielding some phone calls from coaching colleagues asking about his defensive strategy on Gonzaga scoring machine Drew Timme. The Bears held the Zags’ All-American to just nine points and six field-goal attempts in Friday’s 64-63 win at the Sanford Pentagon. It was reminiscent of Baylor’s 86-70 victory over Gonzaga in the 2021 national championship game. In that one, Timme scored 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting.
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‘Another big-time game’: Different Gonzaga, Baylor teams meet two years after national championship clash

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Julian Strawther watched from Gonzaga’s bench two years ago as Baylor’s lead grew from big to bigger to insurmountable. Strawther, used sparingly during his freshman season at Gonzaga, couldn’t do much about the final outcome at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, but that didn’t make the sights and sounds of an 86-70 national championship loss any easier to swallow.
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