Brothers?

[Sooner24]

I’m guessing at no time in OU basketball history have brothers coached, in back to back games or even in the same year, against us as head coach. Let alone at the LNC. Will the Drew brothers will be the first?

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Wow! Good catch. That is an anomaly.

OU Basketball .. Back-to-back home games against brother head coaches

Bryce Drew is head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team. His brother Scott Drew is the head coach of Baylor University Bears men's basketball team.

Scott Drew is in his 16th season at Baylor, and has done well ...

https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378&path=mbball

Drew has built Baylor into one of nine programs to be nationally ranked in each of the last 11 seasons and one of 16 programs to advance to postseason play in every season since 2012. From 2008-18, Baylor has been one of the nation’s most consistent programs with Drew leading the team to nine 20-win seasons, 10 postseason appearances, the Big 12’s first NIT championship, Baylor’s first postseason tournament title in its 110-year history, and a school-record 20 postseason wins.

The Bears advanced to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight in 2010 and 2012, made the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2014 and 2017, won the 2013 NIT championship and advanced to the 2009 NIT championship game. BU also played in the 2008 NCAA Tournament, marking its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1988, and the Bears went to the NCAA Tournament in four consecutive seasons from 2014-17, marking the first consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in program history.

Baylor’s 20-8 postseason record over the last 10 seasons is tied for the nation’s seventh-best among teams with at least four NCAA Tournament appearances. The Bears went 5-0 to win the 2013 NIT title and posted 3-1 records on their way to the Elite Eight in both the 2010 and 2012 NCAA Tournaments. BU went 2-1 to advance to the 2014 and 2017 Sweet 16, and Drew led Baylor to four wins en route to the 2009 NIT title game. Baylor’s 20 postseason wins since 2009 rank ninth nationally behind only North Carolina (32), Kentucky (30), Duke (25), Kansas (25), Michigan State (22), Florida (21), Syracuse (21) and Louisville (21).

Drew is the youngest of 11 coaches nationally to lead his current team to four Sweet 16s since 2010. He is the only coach to guide Baylor to 10 postseason appearances and is responsible for 20 of the program’s 23 all-time postseason wins. Baylor’s 20 postseason wins in the last 10 seasons are nearly three times as many as any other Texas program, with Texas A&M (seven) the only other Lone Star State program with more than five postseason wins. Drew’s teams have posted 11 consecutive winning campaigns, averaging 24 wins per season during that stretch. He has compiled a 316-206 overall record with a 296-195 mark in 15 seasons at Baylor.

Baylor has also had six NBA Draft picks since 2012, which ranks 11th nationally behind only Kentucky (26), Duke (18), Kansas (12), UCLA (12), Syracuse (11), North Carolina (10), Arizona (nine), Louisville (eight), Michigan (eight) and Michigan State (eight). BU has also accounted for six of the 18 NBA Draft picks from Texas colleges in the last seven seasons – the only other Texas programs with multiple draftees in that span are SMU (three), Texas (three) and Texas A&M (2).

 

[sanguinetti]

kind of amazing. not at all a fan of Scott Drew but 2 Elite Eights and 2 Sweet 16's in 8 years is pretty strong.

 

[coolm]

kind of amazing. not at all a fan of Scott Drew but 2 Elite Eights and 2 Sweet 16's in 8 years is pretty strong.

I am gonna pat myself on the back. I have said for years to much OUH chagrin that Drew isn't a bad coach. That season he used zone was his "over the hump" point. I thought that move was brilliant and it seems like every season they come up with something to make them better than they started. He created that culture at Baylor from scratch ... even less than scratch actually. That was an absolute fiasco down there after the murder case et al. Drew has done a good-to-great job.