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In addition to undercoaching NBA talent, Baylor’s Scott Drew may be the world’s foremost expert on the basketball teams at Missouri and Kansas. Baylor’s last two games, half of its last eight, and all four of its losses have been against the two teams dominating the Big 12 and Kansas City’s sports scene.
This is twice now that Drew has played Kansas one game and Missouri the next, so it makes sense to ask him to compare. He pauses. Stares. Thinks.
Speaks.
“When Missouri is on, there’s nobody in the country as good as them offensively,” Drew says. “Nobody. Period.”
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