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Baylor Basketball
Postgame Takeaways: #1 Baylor 81, #3 Arkansas 72
March 30, 2021
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#1 Seed Baylor puts together a strong offensive performance to oust #3 Seed Arkansas and advance to the program's first Final 4 since 1950 by beating the Hogs 81-72. Next up for the Bears is a Texas showdown against Houston Saturday April 3rd in Indianapolis.
Positives
- Arkansas has their historic trio (the Triplets): Marvin Delph, Ron Brewer, Sidney Moncrief who led them to a Final 4 in 1978. Baylor has its own triplets and really quadruplets in Davion Mitchell, Jared Butler, MaCio Teague and Adam Flagler. Those 4 scored 58 of Baylor’s 81 points to help catapult the Bears to the Final 4.
- Offense was strong, 1.19 points per possession against a top 10 team in defensive efficiency.
- Great contributions from Jonathan off the bench tonight with 8 points and 6 rebounds and a crucial block.
- Took care of the basketball against a team that gets a lot of steals. Only 9 turnovers.
- 3 guys on the All South regional team (Butler, Teague, Mitchell) with Mitchell being the MVP. He played a great second half to be paired with Jared’s great first half and MaCio’s great all around game. MaCio’s endurance is elite.
- Getting Notae out of the game was big. He was the one hurting Baylor from 3.
Needs Work
- Got clowned in the paint at times on defense, need to get some things ironed out by next Saturday.
- Allowed 11 offensive rebounds (38%) and sent the Hogs to the foul line too many times (23).
- Davion Mitchell 0-3 from the free throw line? Come on Davion! Great to see Jared make his free throws today!
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