With 8:42 left in the game Jared Butler hit a runner off the glass that put Baylor up by a score of 59-46. According to KenPom the Washington win expectancy at that point was just 3.4%. And that’s without taking into account that the Huskies were playing a young lineup which had 2 juniors, 1 sophomore, and 2 freshmen on the court for the rest of the way. While Baylor was playing several upperclassmen all of whom had at least one full year of college basketball under their belt.
Spoiler alert: The Huskies still won. In honor of the biggest non-conference victory since Washington upset #2 Kansas in Coach Hopkins’ first season let’s go to the film to diagnose how the Dawgs were able to pull off the upset.