Baylor Bears NCAA Basketball Betting
Since winning the 2021 national championship, head coach Scott Drew and the Baylor Bears have been stuck on 32, as in Round of 32. For the fourth consecutive season, the Bears were bounced in the second round. This year, it was the Duke Blue Devils who ended Baylor’s season, and they did so in a dominant fashion. It is likely not a coincidence that Baylor is losing ground with the emergence of NIL, the transfer portal, and the SEC as the dominant conference in college basketball. Since college sports became lawless and with no structure, Baylor and Drew have not been the same.
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2025 Baylor Bears Season Recap
Overall, the Baylor Bears are 20-14 straight up, 9-18-3 against the spread, and 16-14 over/under the total. Baylor has national metrics of 109th for scoring offense, 171st or field goal percentage, 111th for 3-point field goal percentage, 98th for free throw percentage, and 116th for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Baylor is 91st for scoring defense, 147th for field goal percentage permitted, 280th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 106th for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Baylor has covered three of its previous four games and has gone under the total in six of its last eight outings. First among Baylor scorers is Norchad Omier, with 15.7 points per game.
Tyrese Proctor made seven 3-pointers and scored 25 points to continue his recent tear, helping No. 1 seed Duke beat Baylor 89-66 on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Freshman star Cooper Flagg had 18 points, nine rebounds, and six assists for the Blue Devils, the headliner in the East Region and one of the favorites to win it all. They will play in the Sweet 16 on Thursday in Newark, New Jersey.
Proctor, a junior, made 7 of 8 3-pointers - his third straight game with at least six 3s and an abrupt turnaround after going 0 for 10 in his first two Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament games. He made 9 of 10 shots overall Sunday.
Duke shot 64.4%, hit 12 3-pointers, and turned it over just six times.
Freshman V.J. Edgecombe scored 16 points for the ninth-seeded Bears, who haven’t reached the tournament’s second weekend since Scott Drew’s team won it all in the Indianapolis bubble in 2021.
Duke took over 7 1/2 minutes before halftime, outscoring Baylor 24-6 with clean offensive execution while also holding up better against the Bears' relentless work on the offensive glass, which upped the physicality of the game. That included Flagg sporting a red, puffy right eyelid and teammate Mason Gillis picking up a bright red scratch stretching from the right side of his neck around toward his throat.
Duke led 47-30 at the half, and Baylor got no closer than 13 points afterward. The Bears shot 36.8%.
The Bears opened the tournament by holding off eighth-seeded Mississippi State on Friday, setting up a reunion between guard Jeremy Roach and his former Duke program. But Baylor was ousted in the second round for the fourth straight year.
The Blue Devils were playing about a half-hour's drive from their Durham campus, though the building had been the site of some unusual struggles. Duke had lost seven of 11 games at Lenovo Center entering the tournament, six coming in trips to Atlantic Coast Conference neighbor N.C. State and the other a first-round March Madness loss to 14-seed Mercer in 2014. But Duke cruised right along this time, starting with Friday's win against 16-seed Mount St. Mary's, as Flagg had a smooth return from an ankle injury.
Scott Drew remains one of the best coaches in the country, but he is discovering that he can’t fight gravity. Like Major League Baseball, college sports are all about the Benjamin’s these days, and programs such as Baylor are finding it more difficult to succeed.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost Second Round vs. (1) Duke 66–89 |
| 2024 |
Lost Second Round vs. (6) Clemson 64–72 |
| 2023 |
Lost Second Round vs. (6) Creighton, 76–85 |
| 2022 |
Lost Second Round vs. (8) North Carolina, 86–93 (OT) |
| 2021 |
Won National Championship vs. (1) Gonzaga, 86–70 |
| 2019 |
Lost Second Round vs. (1) Gonzaga, 83–71 |
| 2017 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (7) South Carolina, 50–70 |
| 2016 |
Lost First Round vs. (12) Yale, 75–79 |
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