Scott Drew
Scott Drew (born October 23, 1970)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Baylor Bears
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Valparaiso record: 20-11 (.645)
Baylor record: 444-244 (.645)
Overall record: 464-255 (.645)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 1 (2021)
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 12 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 5 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2021)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (2021)
- NIT Championships: 1 (2013)
- NIT Appearances: 4 (2003, 2009, 2013, 2018)
- Big 12 Regular Season Champion: 2 (2021, 2022)
- Summit League Regular Season Champion: 1 (2003)
- Big 12 Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Big 12 Coach of the Year: 3 (2020, 2021, 2022)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2003-present | Baylor |
| 2002-2003 | Valparaiso |
| 1993-2002 | Valparaiso (asst) |
| 1991-1993 | Butler (student mgr) |
Scott Drew Facts
- Scott Homer Drew
- Born October 23, 1970
- Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri
- Alma Mater: Butler University (BA, 1993) / Valparaiso University (MA, 1994)
- Father is Homer Drew, a Hall of Fame coach best known for the 22 years he spent as the head coach at Valparaiso
- Younger brother, Bryce Drew, is also a college head coach, having led the Valparaiso, Vanderbilt and Grand Canyon programs
- After graduating from Valparaiso HS (IN), Drew went to Butler where he served as a student manager for two seasons with the men’s basketball team (then coached by Barry Collier)
- Drew joined his father‘s staff at Valpo as an assistant in 1993, working in that role for the next nine seasons
- Took over as head coach in 2002, reached the 2003 NIT by way of a Summit League regular season title
- Hired as Baylor head coach in 2003; Drew inherited a program devastated by a scandal involving improper benefits to players by previous coach Dave Bliss, brought to light by the murder a BU player by a teammate
- Drew’s teams won just 21 total games through the first three years, but by 2008 he had the Bears back in the NCAA Tournament
- Baylor won the 2013 NIT Championship; Drew had earlier led the Bears to an NIT runner-up finish in 2009
- Drew became the winningest head coach in Baylor history (202 wins) on March 12, 2014, when the Bears won their opening round Big 12 Tournament match-up with TCU; he now has more than 400 wins at BU
- Has been to twelve NCAA Tournaments with Baylor, advancing to the Sweet 16 or further on five occasions
- In 2021, led the Bears to their first NCAA Final Four since 1950 and won the program’s first-ever National Championship
Scott Drew Coaching Tree
- Matthew Driscoll (North Florida)
- John Jakus (Florida Atlantic)
- Grant McCasland (North Texas, Arkansas State)
- Paul Mills (Wichita State, Oral Roberts)
- Andy Stark (D’Youville)
- Jerome Tang (Kansas State)