What Time is the Gonzaga vs Baylor Title Game? Streaming, Odds and More

Baylor is led by an all-American junior guard, Jared Butler, who had 17 points in the semifinal rout of Houston, and another junior guard, Davion Mitchell, who dished out 12 assists with 11 points as the Bears won, 78-59. After last year’s tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, both Butler and the senior guard MaCio Teague tested the N.B.A. draft waters but opted to come back for another shot at the title.

“That was one of my goals, and I know some of my teammates’ goals, just to leave a legacy at Baylor, create Baylor as a blue blood,” Butler said.

The last undefeated team to make the title game had Larry Bird on it.

Larry Bird’s Indiana State team, was 33-0 entering the 1979 title game against Magic Johnson and Michigan State.

Bird averaged 28.6 points, 14.9 rebounds and 5.5 assists a game during his junior season after averaging 30 points as a sophomore and nearly 33 as a freshman. In the national semifinal against DePaul, he made 16 of 19 field-goal attempts and had 16 rebounds and nine assists as Indiana State won, 76-74.

Michigan State featured not only Johnson, then a sophomore, but also Greg Kelser, a 6-foot-7 forward who was later chosen in the first round of the N.B.A. draft.

“We felt that our zone could affect them,” Johnson said on CBS before the semifinal games. “We double-teamed Larry every chance we got and we were able to pull off the victory,” 75-64.

Johnson, like many others in the basketball world, was hoping for a Gonzaga-Baylor final entering the Final Four.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/sports/ncaabasketball/what-time-is-gonzaga-baylor.html