Baylor has been better than Gonzaga all year - Nick on Bears' championship win | FIRST THINGS FIRST
The Gonzaga Bulldogs' undefeated streak came to an end as the Baylor Bears soundly defeated the team for the NCAA Championship. Nick Wright breaks down why this game was not the upset everyone is thinking, and why Baylor has shown they have been the better team all year.
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Baylor has been better than Gonzaga all year - Nick on Bears' championship win | FIRST THINGS FIRST
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What are your thoughts on the Baylor's championship win?
Congrats to Baylor for winning the national championship
Baylor couldn't miss. Zags got out physical'd and they shot terrible with careless turnovers. I was absolutely shocked they were only down 10 at the half. This never even felt like a game the whole time. Even when they were chipping away the deficit.
Baylor plays cal poly san luis obispo in preseason.....GONEzaga plays them ALL season - Sic'em!
Baylor starters AVERAGE AGE was 22.5 and they had two players at 24.5 years of age. My lord that is OLDER than the Chicago Bulls NBA starting 5. Add Sabonis at 22 and Zach Collins at 22 to this team and see how it turns out. It's a legitimate SPORTS DISCUSSION do we really want ADULT MEN PLAYING college basketball? Baylor 2021 would have defeated 2017 North Carolina NCAA champions.
@@salmonkill7 you do realize one and done players are not the norm right? So kids aren't allow to play in their senior years now?
Steven Miller it’s extremely rare for that to happen. If a bunch of juco and prep school kids decide to play all 4 years of college then all the power to them
@@Davo2times You are probably correct!! I don't think ANY of us want to see 24.5 year old college basketball players with an average age of 23 (Feb. 5th article on Baylor not my numbers). Baylor was AWESOME THEY DESERVED TO WIN HANDS DOWN!! Frankly as big a ZAGS FAN AS I am , when I saw Baylor play Houston I knew we had ZERO CHANCE...
@@Davo2times Your right nothing wrong with players staying all 4 years but Baylor has players so OLD THEY STAYED ALL FOUR YEARS AND RED SHIRTED 3 TO 4 YEARS!!.. COME ON MAN be honest 24 and 25 year olds are ANCIENT for College basketball 🏀!! Why do you think the blue blood teams are not as great? They have no older players like Baylor.. Even the ZAGS now loose 1 and done players after one year and it's tough building around teams that do this UNLESS IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR FOR EVERY TEAM and it's not!!
Arizona Has Been Better Than Gonzaga All Year Long
Baylor was faster, quicker than Gonzaga, and underrated all year long.
All records are not equal 72-6 98 champions bulls - vs 73 2016 golden state warriors loss I had Baylor all year look at the lil Gonzaga 07 Patriots loss 72 bulls perfect season
WTF are you even talking about?
@@xcwilliams7980 I think I know what he was trying to say
English? My eyes are bleeding from trying to read this.
All of sports is a mental energy game and Gonzaga spent all of their mental energy winning against UCLA. They had nothing left for the finals against Baylor. It takes time to rebuild mental focus and energy after a hard fought win. Baylor should thank UCLA for winning the national championship with such ease.
They don't need to thank anyone. Gonzaga could not deal with a no. 11 seed while Baylor thrashed no.2 seed Houston. That should have shown people which team was the favourite but they were too busy high on the drama of no. 1 seed barely winning after overtime against a no. 11 team.
@@jameswabwire1931 UCLA beat Michigan byu and Alabama, stop acting like they're just some regular 11 seed
@@jameswabwire1931 - I’m not taking anything away form Baylor. The ease at which they won, and how terrible Gonzaga played, I know the Gonzaga players were mentally empty, they left everything on the floor on Saturday, to get to Monday, and they had no mental fortitude for the finals on Monday; and that is why they looked like what they were, mentally on empty.
Virginia beat Auburn by one in the semis and still won the championship. North Carolina only beat Oregon by one in the semis and still won the championship. I don’t buy the “we didn’t have enough left.”
Champions don’t make excuses
First of all CONGRATULATIONS to BAYLOR BASKETBALL 2021 NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS!! Now the SPORTS DISCUSSION has to point out that Baylor AVERAGE AGE of the STARTERS as reported February 5th, 2021 by a SPORTS ANALYST, was 22.5 years old!! This is OLDER than the CHICAGO BULLS NBA STARTING 5!! I hope this is not the TREND. Do we want to see Baylor 24.5 (two of the players were nearly 25 years old) ?? Baylor at 22 to 23 years AVERAGE AGE would HAVE ANNIALATED 2017 NORTH CAROLINA NCAA freshman champions that beat the ZAGS... This needs to be a NCAA BASKETBALL SPORTS DISCUSSION at some point after Baylor enjoys their win... Congrats to BAYLOR NCAA CHAMPIONS!!!
Shannon jinxed Gonzaga.
HAHA 20/20 hindsight
This fuckers now are ncaa experts, I only believe the ones that can name the 6th man on mississippi valley st
BC Eagles 2022!!!!
Calm down
Boston College? Did I miss any recent news? Why are they going to be good next year?
They said they all support women’s basketball but they didn’t even have a segment about women’s championship. WOW
They want people to watch their content.
Because literally none of us watched the women's final four but all of us watched the men's
its about the money
Nick is right, gonzaga is not what people think, they played teams that was punks. Baylor were faster plus they had shots.
Nick watched 0 games during the season for Baylor or Gonzaga. He’s just asking the studio guys to help him make a take. Clown
It’s much easier for Nick to watch everything than you and I. Fox Sports hooks him up
Oh you know Nick???
@@daviiwonder do you? So we are at the same disadvantage. Have you paid attention to his career? Dude has been caught lying on tv more than Trump. Guy is a 2nd rate Skip Bayless. It’s an act and everyone with brains knows it
Nick is such a hater jesus. The game against UCLA alone will have us remember this Gonzaga team. That Wichita state vs kentucky game was one of the best games of last decade. Just because you don't remember it nick doesn't mean we don't
Kansas was the number 1 seed last year, not Baylor. Why is Brandon allowed talking basketball
Baylor was also set to be a No. 1 seed.
There are 4 number 1 seeds in the tournament. Baylor was going to be one of them.
Disagree that Baylor was the best team all year if they were they were to be undefeated and the fact is if you look at the games I think Gonzaga was just a little mentally and physically hung over it took him about 10 to 12 minutes to even get in the game and then it was played even. They will be remembered look if we can remember Kentucky that was undefeated until they lost in final four we’re definitely going to remember Gonzaga they were the best team all year by significant amount until the last game
Well you are just wrong. Give them a week rest and play 5 times. They wouldn't get any faster or more athletic. Baylor would beat the breaks off of them 5 out of 5 times. Only reason they weren't undefeated is cause 8 players got covid. Gonzaga wouldn't be undefeated in big 12. Period
@@spoza72 Disagree with you wholeheartedly I agree that Baylor is the better team but normally it would be a much closer game Gonzaga played dead for 10 minutes which allowed them to get a 19 point lead it played about even the rest of the way and Baylor shot out of their mind ridiculous. Now I agree Baylor is better but acting like they would completely destroy them every time if they played 10 times is ridiculous. Baylor would probably win six times out of 10 if they played 10 times. The facts are very clear about this when a team has a physically and mentally they under perform the next game and lose more often than not in the tournament after a team goes through a game like that their next game teams are 8-19 losing by an average of eight points. Baylor deserves all the credit in the world though my problem I is trying to denigrate Gonzaga. They were the best team this year over the regular season I wholeheartedly believe the only team that could beat Gonzaga this year is Baylor.
@@spoza72 You are delusional if you think Baylor would sweep Gonzaga like that if they played 5 times.
If Baylor had Gonzaga’s schedule, they would have been undefeated too. Baylor’s schedule was infinitely more difficult than Gonzaga’s.
Losers make excuses
First things first needs to get rid of Nick
*brandon