{"id":70771,"date":"2023-03-08T02:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articles.runyourpool.com\/?p=70771"},"modified":"2023-03-08T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:55:08","slug":"can-baylor-win-the-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runyourpool.com\/articles\/2023\/03\/08\/can-baylor-win-the-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Baylor Win the National Championship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a gauntlet of a conference, Baylor positioned itself among the upper half of the group. The Bears have earned victories over some of the nation\u2019s best, such as UCLA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pe1GdW9pJlA\">Gonzaga<\/a>, Kansas, and Texas, but also approach the Big 12 Tournament with three Ls from their last five contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still some vestiges of that 2021 title-winning team on this one. Adam Flagler, LJ Cryer, Flo Thamba, and Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/35588999\/baylor-jonathan-tchamwa-tchatchoua-makes-return-court-knee-injury\"> back in early February<\/a> after a nasty knee injury from last season forced him out for nearly a calendar year \u2013 are still making an impact. Baylor has March experience and a head coach who has taken a team to the mountaintop in recent memory, and that could propel the Bears to a national championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Last National Championship:<\/strong> 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Last Final Four:<\/strong> 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2023 Title Odds: <\/strong>+1500 (as of March 6, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Baylor Will Make a Run<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bears have one of the most effective offenses in the country. They\u2019re No. 2 in adjusted offensive efficiency according to both<a href=\"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/index.php\"> KenPom<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/barttorvik.com\/\"> T-Rank<\/a>, are second in the Big 12 in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/conferences\/statistics\/team\/_\/id\/8\/stat\/scoring-per-game\"> points per game<\/a> (77.3), and rank in the top 30 nationally in three-pointers attempted. With the three-headed backcourt monster of Flagler, Cryer, and Keyonte George, opposing defenses have so much to deal with on the perimeter. Flagler and Cryer are especially lethal from deep \u2013 defenses are forced to stretch wide or provide open looks to shooters who connect more than 41 percent of the time from beyond the arc. Plus, Baylor gets to the free-throw line more than most teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Big12Conference?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Big12Conference<\/a> Freshman of the Year since 2012 ???<br><br>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/algJaZezt8\">https:\/\/t.co\/algJaZezt8<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SicEm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SicEm<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CultureofJOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CultureofJOY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yEXcB19Jqp\">pic.twitter.com\/yEXcB19Jqp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Baylor Men\u2019s Basketball (@BaylorMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorMBB\/status\/1632503764543217670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baylor is also exceptional on the offensive glass. Scott Drew\u2019s team crashes the offensive boards as a unit and comes away with nearly 12 per outing,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/conferences\/statistics\/team\/_\/id\/8\/stat\/rebounds\/sort\/avgOffensiveRebounds\"> the best mark in the Big 12<\/a>. They use these extra opportunities to give their shooters second chances, which generally become more available as the defense scrambles for loose balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Baylor Will Exit Early<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re good on the offensive glass, but the Bears don\u2019t do as well on the defensive side. They rank 314th nationally in defensive rebounds per game, which doesn\u2019t help their overall defense much. Baylor opponents are shooting 53.2 percent from inside the arc, indicative of too many easy opportunities in front of the basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all, this just isn\u2019t a great defensive team. Baylor doesn\u2019t force a lot of turnovers, gives up a good number of points inside, and is ranked outside of the top 80 in adjusted defensive efficiency in KenPom and T-Rank. If the Bears come up against a team that can really exploit them down low, then that could be insurmountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What It\u2019ll Take to Win<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baylor will probably need to clean up its failings on the defensive side of things to win a national championship. Otherwise, it\u2019ll take absolutely heroic performances from its trio of excellent guards to score this team out of trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless of what happens on the other end, the Bears will put a lot of the scoring burden on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dsuMMFv7u7U\">Flagler<\/a>, Cryer, and George. These three are responsible for more than 40 percent of the team\u2019s average offensive output at the moment. They have to keep doing what they have been on offense \u2013 drawing fouls, making threes and distributing the basketball positively. It would be ideal for George to clean up his turnovers and either shoot fewer triples or make more of the ones he takes, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only two years removed from their last national title, the Baylor Bears are poised for another run into the Final Four. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":70772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[797,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-ncaa-mens-basketball"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can Baylor Win the National Championship? | The Poolside Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Only two years removed from their last national title, the Baylor Bears are poised for another run into the Final Four.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.runyourpool.com\/articles\/2023\/03\/08\/can-baylor-win-the-national-championship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Baylor Win the National Championship? 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