The game everyone wanted was not everything or anything anyone thought it would be—probably not even the Baylor Bears, who in their wildest dreams could not have come up with a more feasibly dominant script. Gonzaga didn’t quite tuck tail, but there was hardly a point in time on Monday night where it looked like an undefeated juggernaut. Factually, it is no longer.
By 86–70 score, Baylor dotted its first men's Final Four in 71 years with the program’s first championship, fulfilling Scott Drew’s 18-year pledge to revive a fallen program. The Bears deserved it.