{"id":646229,"date":"2026-03-08T01:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:34:36","slug":"baylor-coach-scott-drew-gets-500th-win-in-bears-101-75-rout-over-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646229\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor coach Scott Drew gets 500th win in Bears’ 101-75 rout over Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

WACO, Texas \u2014 Tounde Yessoufou scored 26 points, and Baylor coach Scott Drew collected his 500th career win with the Bears’ 101-75 rout over Utah on Saturday in a Big 12 Conference regular-season finale. <\/p>\n

Drew, in his 23rd season at the helm with the Bears, is one of 25 active Division-I coaches with at least 500 wins (500-285). Drew came to Baylor after a decade coaching at Valparaiso, the final year as head coach. <\/p>\n

Yessoufou shot 10 of 16 from the field and Cameron Carr added 21 points on 9-of-13 shooting for Baylor (16-15, 6-12), which shot 61.5% (40 of 65) overall. <\/p>\n

Reserves Michael Rataj chipped in with 14 points and Dan Skillings Jr. scored 10 for the Bears. <\/p>\n

Don McHenry scored 20 points and Terrence Brown added 16 for Utah (10-21, 2-16), which has lost five straight. Keanu Dawes scored 14 points but grabbed just one rebound, a season low. <\/p>\n

The Utes shot 60% (29 of 48) from the floor and hit 7 of 14 from long range, but committed 16 turnovers that led to 31 points for the Bears. <\/p>\n

Baylor opened on a 21-9 run and led 53-33 at the break. Yessoufou scored 15 first-half points and Carr added 12 with a pair of 3-pointers. <\/p>\n

\"Baylor<\/p>\n

Baylor guard Tounde Yessoufou dunks over Utah in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Waco Texas. Credit: AP\/Rod Aydelotte<\/p>\n

Carr’s 3 with 3:38 to play stretched the Bears’ lead to 95-65. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Big 12 Conference Tournament starts Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas \u2014 Tounde Yessoufou scored 26 points, and Baylor coach Scott Drew collected his 500th career win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-646229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116190989340346536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}