The Baylor Bears will play for a National Championship after a dominant showing in the Final Four, drubbing Houston 78-59.
Jared Butler played his first complete offensive game of the NCAA Tournament, scoring 17 points in the first half, which for a stretch matched Houston’s total score. Butler has shot poorly from outside all Tourney. In the first half he was 4-5 from deep. He also slung a few beautiful cross-court passes to find shooters in the corner and dimmed Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua with some sweet pocket passes. The victory shot — just before both teams inserted their deep bench players — was a Butler-Tchatchoua pick and roll in which Tchatchoua slipped the screen, received the pocket pass from Butler, and fired the pass into the waiting hands of MaCio Teague.