Scott Drew

After four seasons rebuilding the program, Drew turned Baylor from a program with only one NCAA tournament appearance since 1950 into a perennial tournament contender appearing in 10 of 13 tournaments since 2008.

In 2021, Drew would lead Baylor to a Big 12 championship, 28–2 record and their first ever NCAA championship.

Drew's turnaround at Baylor is considered by many to be one of the best in the history of college sports.

Scott Homer Drew (born October 23, 1970) is an American college basketball coach who is the former head coach of the Baylor Bears, a position he has held since 2003.

He has recently at the end of the 2023-2024 regular season, accepted the head coaching job for the Louisville Cardinals

Drew began his coaching career as an assistant for Valparaiso under his father Homer Drew.

It was enough to make the NCAA tournament for only the fifth time in school history and the first time since 1988.

At the end of the regular season, when Drew made an appearance on the sports show Pardon The Interruption (PTI), host Tony Kornheiser suggested on the air that Drew be voted "unanimous coach of the year."

After the season, Drew signed a 10-year contract extension to stay the head coach of the Bears.

Drew graduated from Butler University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts.

While at Butler he was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.

Although he never played college basketball at the varsity level, Drew spent two years as a student assistant for the men's basketball team, and also played on the men's tennis team but did not earn a letter.

Afterwards, Drew assumed an assistant coaching position with the Valparaiso University Crusaders men's team under his father Homer Drew.

He spent nine years in this position, during which he earned a master's degree from Valparaiso and a reputation as one of the best recruiters in the nation.

Once the elder Drew retired, he became the team's head coach for one year.

In that year, Valparaiso won the regular-season conference championship, but lost to IUPUI in the Mid-Continent Conference tournament, thus losing the bid to the NCAA tournament.

However, the team proceeded to earn an NIT bid.

When Drew went to Baylor, his father came out of retirement to coach Valpo.

The 21 wins and 9 conference wins were Baylor's best since joining the Big 12 in 1996.

Following his father's retirement in 2002, Drew would serve as the head coach of Valparaiso for one season before being hired by Baylor in 2003.

Drew took over Baylor as a program in ruins, following decades of mediocre-to-poor performance and a public scandal that resulted in numerous NCAA sanctions.

Nearly every top player from the 2002–03 Bears had transferred after school officials granted a full release to every player on the team.

On August 22, 2003, Drew took the head coaching position of the men's team at Baylor University after the resignation of Dave Bliss due to scandal.

This was unusually late for a coaching change; practice was only two months away and the season opener was only three months away.

Drew took over a program left in a shambles as a result of the scandal.

With these handicaps, Drew led the Bears to 9–19 in the 2004–05 season, and 4–13 in the Big 12 Conference-only 2005–06 season.

Additionally, Baylor had placed itself on probation until 2005 and withdrawn from postseason play for the 2003–04 season.

Drew led a decimated roster to an 8–21 record in his first season.

The NCAA imposed further sanctions in 2005, extending Baylor's probation until 2010, docking the Bears three paid visits in 2006–07 and banning the Bears from non-conference play in the 2005–06 season.

Shortly after Drew's first season, Baylor extended its self-imposed probation until 2006 and docked itself several scholarships and paid recruiting visits through 2006.

In the 2007–08 season, Drew turned around his Bears to finish with a 21–9 regular-season record.

They finished fourth in the Big 12 with a 9–7 record.

Prior to the 2008–09 season, a Rivals.com writer called Drew the Big 12 "coach on the rise" due to Drew's success in recruiting talent to Baylor.

The Big 12 coaches picked Drew's squad to finish fourth in the conference.

In 2010, after finishing tied for second in the Big 12 with a squad picked to finish tenth in the preseason poll, Scott Drew was elected the Austin American Statesman's Coach of the Year.

That year he went on to beat the Texas Longhorns three straight times.

He went on in the same year to enjoy an NCAA Sweet 16 berth, making him and his father Homer Drew one of the few father and son coaches to accomplish such feat.

The team then made it to the Elite 8 before losing to the national championship-winning Duke Blue Devils.

In 2011, Drew led Baylor to an 18–13 overall record and a seventh-place finish in the Big 12.

In the first round of the Big 12 tournament, Baylor lost to Oklahoma.