Baylor came out of the gates firing on all cylinders in the 2021 title game and never looked back, ending Gonzaga's undefeated season and winning its first-ever men's basketball championship. Jared Butler led the Bears with 22 points and 7 assists. Watch the full 2021 March Madness replay here.
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It’s funny how everyone thought Gonzaga was going to be a mismatch problem for Baylor but look how much bigger Baylor looks! Gonzaga look like little brothers compared to them.
They looked like USC looked when they got steamrolled by Gonzaga in the E-8.
Crazy thing is Gonzaga was actually bigger. They had a height advantage at every position. Baylor played bigger for sure though.
@Nick Traeger Are you a kid? Lol
@Nick Traeger most of Baylor's starters were juniors and seniors...they either *had* to leave because they graduated or did what nearly every major league sports prospect does and left their junior year. College will always be there, a professional basketball career won't be.
@Nick Traeger Which would you rather have a college degree or a few million dollars? Asking for a friend.
Mitchell is a true point guard .
I must have spent a total of 10 hours watching highlights/reruns of this game after watching it on tv that night
It's the Defense for me! It was a thing a beauty, all night long.
ESPN the night before the game: "iZ gOnZaGa tHe bEsT tEaM eVeR?"
Baylor Baylor Baylor!
Every if they won, they wouldn't be close to the best team ever lol... not even top 20
Nowhere Man 3 all Americans, Ayayi, Newbhard, great bench and a HOF coach
@@nowhereman4319 definitely they are top 20.
@nowhete man it is been a while i don't remember the context tbh of which I made this comment whether I was saying they were top 20 right now or if they had won they'd be top 20. That being said, I think them not winning the title I'd the reason I'd pick a lot of the teams you listed also like 2009 unc the Duke teams unlv (didn't let me see everything you put). They only had three games all year theu didn't win by double digits... a neutral site game against a ranked WVU team early in the year which is a challenge in and of itself being g so early in the season, and against ucla and the game they lost. Had they won they Def would've been top 10 for me. I'd put them above over 1999 Duke, 2001 Duke, 2009 UNC, 2017 UNC, 1992 Duke, 1979 MSU
everybody talking about Mitchell but can we talk about BUTLER !!? 😩👏🏼
HONESTLY. He played amazing
Y'all are finally showing Baylor clips 😍😍 it's almost as if they won the championship
Lol
For those of us that watched Baylor all year we not surprised
So true lol
And it looks the same this year with Baylor ranked #1 right now. Baylor is a different breed.
Kansas and Baylor were by far the best teams in 2020 when the tournament was canceled and it's not even a supposition its hard to deny it. If Baylor and Kansas would have been on opposite sides of the bracket, it would most likely be the greatest NCAA title game ever. Shame alot of the KU players decided to go to the NBA or Kansas vs Baylor would have been the Championship game or at least a final four game in 2021.
Congratulations to Baylor Bears a most dominating and excellent season. The Lady Bears have long been basketball Queens. The Men have earned their rights to the table
This was up there with 1990 and 2009 as the most lopsided title games ever. These are the only three title games I can recall that were never really competitive at any point. Everyone knew three minutes into the game that this was going to be a blowout.
Hey! Gonzaga was in it right up to player introductions!
@@PrinceRN LOL
y'know i would say the 2018 game but Michigan was keeping it a close game until like the last 2 minutes of the first quarter, what would u say?
@@anonymoustangerine Thought of that game too but it's easy to forget that Michigan actually led by 7 around the midway point of the first half before Villanova took command. So at least the Final was competitive for a time.
@@mikewilliams9069 …and that explains how they wiped the floor with Gonzaga how, exactly? (you know, since you were responding to my comment)
Best team I’ve seen in the past 5-7 years. Baylor should’ve been the team everyone was going crazy about not Gonzaga.
I don't know about that. I guess you forgot about how dominant 2018 Villanova was. People tend to have short-term memory.
@@pp3k3jamail Baylor is better then Villanova.
@@unbiascowboy1537 I don't know about that 2018 Villanova was dominating teams. You can say this Baylor year was as good but better 2018 Villanova nah. 2018 Villanova is one of the greatest national championship teams of all time Especially one of the most dominant. I remember seeing a Kansas Jayhawks fan on social media before they played Villanova in the final four say we have no chance of beating Villanova, and that Kansas team in the final four was the number one seed and the Big 12 regular season champs who beat it Duke to get to the final four in the elite 8.
@@pp3k3jamail 2018 Villanova was known for their dominance in the tournament, not year round. In their regular season they lost to 4 teams and went to overtime against 2 other teams. All 6 teams i mentioned were also unranked. 2020 Baylor was strong year-round with their 2 losses being pretty honorable as they were playing like 6 ranked teams over the span of 8 games if im not wrong and also coming back from a covid break with no practice allowed. And mind u im not even a Baylor fan, im just stating the visible facts
@@anonymoustangerine they were 36- 4 the heck is you taking about? they were ranked number 1 most of that year and didn't lose a single game by double digits. With all due respect this Baylor team got blown out by a trash Kansas jayhawk team this year and the big 12 this year's was weak. Xavier who was in villanova's conference that year in 2018 went 29-6 would've smoked any of those teams Baylor played in the big 12 this year's. Then you say Villanova wasn't known for their dominance when 29 out of there 36 victories they won by double digits that year boy be quiet 🤫
Baylor was clearly the better team the entire year. As a Baylor fan, it’s even better that we were doubted all year and then showed up and destroyed almost everyone’s pick to win.
Y’all were the best team, but doubted? Baylor was a 1 seed🤣 how is that being doubted all year? Everyone thought they were a top 2 team the whole back half of the season including myself lol. As an OU fan I know just how dominant Baylor was that year, I thought Gonzaga was great too tho as they knocked us out in the sweet 16 when we had Austin Reeves. I thought it’d be closer but I knew yall were better
I don’t ever get tired of watching Gonzaga catch a beat down. Seeing it happen in a national championship game makes it so much better. 🤣🤣🤣
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If u get old of this, go watch Michigan vs gonzaga 2019! WE CRUSHED THEM!
@@Sour129 thanks!
Lol salty UNC fan.
I was so happy for baylor and the state of Texas
I hear ya CUZ !!!! ❤️♥️😡🙏🏼🎶🎶🇨🇱🇨🇱👍🏼👍🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
Gonzaga was still day dreaming when it came to Monday Night. Kudos to Baylor punching them down and not letting the Zags get back up to breathe.
Watching this in person was phenomenal. Wasn't expecting such a large lead at all during the entire game, but it was so nice to see Gonzaga get shut down because everyone from ESPN to CBS to any sports team picked Gonzaga to win it all. Baylor said "who do you play during the season?" Beat them like a little red-headed step child
Exactly until they move up to a real conference they are still div 2 in my eyes no matter what talent they get....it's all smoke and mirrors. They get 24 conference wins if they play the 3rd strings, they will never not make the tourney and that is a joke. The Zags were one of the early schools like Butler when they spoke of mid majors 20+ years ago, Butler has moved up twice and many others only the Zags stay in a div 2 conference. There was a time like 7 years ago no matter how good they did in season they got no better than a 6th seed, then basketball politics happened with the west being so weak, it's all about the money.
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@@popcorn-uz3tn I mean they are overrated for sure but Division 2? They still made it to the NCAA championship game
@@f.r.etling6226 Not Gonzaga, but their conference, the zags would be tops in the Pac 12 why not go there? Notre Dame moved their BB program to the ACC and kept their FB team independent so it can be done. They don't want to leave and miss out on an automatic 20 win season because the Pac 12 would take them.
Baylor fans, how many times you gonna watch this? its been out for 4 hours and I'm on #2
Since that day, this has to be a dozen so far. Highlights, full replays, and interviews.
@@timoherron3890 same
Still watching, month later.
@@dorothyking6293 LOL Me3
Anyone else do it with like RG3 and art era football
So happy for Baylor. Not easy for a school like that to compete in the Big 12 but they dominated and were hands down the best team in college basketball this year, maybe last year too. Sic Em
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Scott Drew has done a great job recruiting to Baylor and completely turning it around. Baylor was terrible in the first few years of the Big 12, but now they’re a national perennial power.
Mitchell, Butler, Teague. Baylor had a 3 headed monster at the guard positions. Geez most teams only have 2 max. Best team in recent memory.
Guard play at any level in basketball is everything. Give me great guards an more times then not ima win.
The final top 25 poll…..after the National Championship game…..i think that Baylor had victories over 11 of those teams…….check me….am I right….?
It's the Defense for me!
BEAT DOWN!
I'll never get tired of watching this. I was smiling from ear to ear
Sic 'em, Bears!
Reasons why I figured Baylor would come out on top: 1. Poise - Baylor embodied the toughness that was necessary through a pandemic-amended season even with two disruptions (second was compounded by severe winter weather). 2. Three headed backcourt: While Gonzaga had talent with Suggs, Ayayi, Baylor’s trio of Butler, Teague and Mitchell was unlike any other in college basketball (all could shoot, handle, pass offensively and get after it defensively). 3. College basketball today compared to 1976: The game has changed so much from 45 years ago and going undefeated will almost never happen in today’s world because of increased competition, attention, scouting etc. Baylor took two losses this season (at KU, Oklahoma St in Big 12 tourney semifinal) but it prepared them for their run.
FOH coach
0:00 to 1:00, from the tip to the 1st bucket, Baylor won this game BEFORE it started. They were the aggressor and this very 1st possession says it all.
Usually you can sense who will win a game within the first minute of watching it. I’m a lifelong Gonzaga fan and the second the ball tipped off I knew Baylor had them beat.
I love you, Baylor!
This Baylor team was nasty, athletic and good shooting. If only their top players returned for their senior years they coulda gone for a repeat.
Discipline defense until the end. Gonzaga’s guards were not prepared for this game plan.
Gonzaga finally meet they match Baylor we came to play!!!
This game was over before it started. Baylor looked so much better!! Im a Gonzaga grad and love Gonzaga. The first 5 minutes of this game, I knew it was done.
Baylor was so unconscious from beyond the 3 line it's not even funny
Can someone tell me what that bumper music is at the 1:02:50 mark? I want to play it in my car as I am speeding down the freeway. Thanks.
Top 5 National Champion team ALL TIME
19:11 no wonder Gonzaga lost (Timme doing the mustache flex down 17)
He has nothing to flex
The rebuild was completed about midway through his 4th season. Baylor wasn't an NCAA tournament program. What he's made at Baylor is completely new and his own.
Yes completely agree. Scott drew is the program it’s amazing what he’s accomplished he literally developed a new blue blood. I believe he will be a top 3 coach of this generation of coaches he’s so good
What he did considering the vile mess he inherited is right up there with Jim Calhoun at UConn as the two greatest and most remarkable rebuilds of all-time! I vividly remember Calhoun when he took over back in spring '87 in Storrs and there was the threat of the program becoming extinct by their administration after five consecutive last place finishes in the Big East before Calhoun's hire! Baylor's situation wasn't extinction but it was in complete upheaval! Watching this unfold showed the masterful job he's done (Drew) having brought Baylor back
Best college basketball EVER
and the utah jazz got jared butler, i cant believe nobody wanted him he went to the jazz with the 40th pick he was the leading scorer for baylor
He has a heart condition that’s why he dropped so far in the draft. Definitely a steal for the jazz though!
@@unbiascowboy1537 well he lead baylor in scoring in the championship game, i didnt see anything wrong with his heart
@@Jack_Reacher2024 lol I wish it worked that way. But obviously it’s not that bad because they let him play. They didn’t give Isaiah Austin a chance at all.
@@unbiascowboy1537 well he killed gonzaga and nobody gave baylor a chance
Baylor guards was just to tough and Suggs toughness was matched. Baylor defense beyond solid. Just the better team clearly
Right out of the gate. The smart NBA Gms drafted BAYLOR guys, the dumb ones drafted the other team. Leadership was so subserb, respect!!!!
better than nba
#45 Davion Mitchell
0:05 tied
Gonzaga only had 2 close games this season their game against UCLA and against West Virginia back in December and Baylor plays in a tough Big 12 conference
NCAA was trying real hard to keep Gonzaga in the game
Send it in!!!!
In life timing is everything. To say what vital's age is while they are in celebration makes me wonder of the intent of the commentator's reasoning.
All of them wanted Gonzaga to win. They were really upset when they didn’t so they were doing everything to take the credit away from Baylor.
Gonzaga looked like a Bob Cousy led team playing modern athletic ballers!!!🏀💯
Game was over in the first 3 minutes
Nice I was 10 minutes late to the start
Don’t worry, the game was over by then anyway 😂
baylor domination!
Well, congrats to Baylor.
nice
13:04-12:55 in the 2nd half is the 9 seconds that finished Gonzaga. Sic 'em 🐻
We know what the Baylor women represent. The Baylor men won this national championship. The Baylor football team won the Big 12 Championship. Heck, even the volleyball team did pretty good this year! Baylor owns the state of Texas for sure!
That year most of the talk was about Gonzaga’s offense but I was sitting there like ok great offense wins games but defense wins CHAMPIONSHIPS Baylor proved it
Weeks later. I know my team won, but I still get butterflies/nervous when I watch it.
Same brother.
sameee
So I’m a life king Baylor fan and even I kept saying “Gonzaga is a good team they should make a run” and I don’t think they ever even had a 6-0 run
I travelled from Texas all the way to Indianapolis to watch the game as a Baylor fan myself. I was prepared if Baylor ended up losing to the undefeated Zags, but watching Baylor dominate on the court was by far one of the greatest games I had ever witnessed.
04/05/2021 - 3 years ago
A baylor fan here, I do feel bad for the Zags a little, the refs cheated them quite a bit in this game it got a little annoying watching my team win somewhat bc of refs
Da “BAYLOR BEARS 🐻” All though zags had it !! SURPRISE!!!!!!!🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
Baylor had the best team jn the country two years in a row
Gonzaga is a good program in the West but if they were in the conferences with teams like Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Louisville, West Virginia, Georgetown, Villanova or UConn they wouldn't make it this far. Just shows you they just can't keep up with the big boys
Houston vs Gonzaga would’ve been closer lol… Baylor was in another league than everyone this season and if they didn’t get Covid they’d have the first undefeated season since 76
In part because Houston would have missed a ton of shots and probably wouldn’t get as many offensive rebounds like they usually did.
I kinda hate to do this, since I'm a gonzaga fan, but, hats off to coach drew and the rest of the Baylor squad. They were a much more balanced and well-rested team that night.
Thank you sir, for putting some respect on the Baylor Bears name. 👌👏👌👏
@@welcome2paridice824 Of course. :)
Well rested, more athletic, faster, higher basketball IQ, better shooting, more aggressive. Baylor is the better team top to bottom, kinda a backhanded compliment to just say they were well rested
@@W4TSKY came here to post this
Just well-rested? How about much better than Honzaga, period!?
They won with 86 and Elgin Baylor died a week ago at age 86
Where is the bestj
I still have no idea how Donovan isn’t related to davion Mitchell😂😂
I'm not a Zag or Baylor fan but it would've been fun seeing Zags go perfect because when was last time we seen a team go perfect? The next best scenario did play out tho, a matchup between the best two teams this past year in the Natty game. Baylor set the tone early and showed Gonzaga they better step it up a notch (which they didn't) and Baylor proved to be the better team.
A clinic
What was that dude saying in the beginning💀
Gonzaga vs. Baylor - Regular Season (Canceled) 12/5/2020
At least we got to see it in the national championship game 🐻#sicem
Now d Mitch doing it in nba
Gonzaga needs more brothas lol lol FACTS
Why do you think ESPN likes them so much HAHA
Grant hill and bill whatever his last name is.. wanted Gonzaga to when so bad just listen to how they announced this game Gonzaga this timme that smh 😂😂😂😂😂
I concur 100%. It's sad to think that the announcers were so biased it's easy to watch but hard to listen to one of the best games I've seen total dominance
Way2Go Bears!
They already had Gonzaga #1 for the 2022 season. Stop it!!!!!!
Baylor looked bigger because they were bigger. Faster too. GU could have matched their size with 265 Ballo but I guess he wasn't ready. Why wasn't he ready?
25:29😭😭😭
Micd up moment "F**K outta here"
Sic Em Bears!
0:01 appetizing?
This championship game went down to the wire. Baylor 44 ZAGS 43. It was a great close game. Gonzaga should of won this game. But gonzaga made a one mistake at the final second of the game. That what caused there chance to win the ncca championship. Of 2021. This year is a new year oh boy gonzaga got a great nasty surprise for every ncca team. Just wait you'll all well find out. GO ZAGS.
Bruh this game was never close. Gonzaga got outplayed in every aspect, and were also down by double digits the entire game. Did you even watch?
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Every year it everything Gonzaga this Gonzaga that. Stop it!!!!!!!!!
Jalen Suggs couldnt handle the Moment!! I bet this follows him a while but hopefully he can become a LION because of it!!
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I was hoping for a great title game. Baylor didn’t get the memo
More like Gonzaga didn't get the memo
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I think the Zags played ok. Baylor was just on fire. They were killing anyone playing like that
It was great for me! Sicem Bears!
Jesus is the king amen
Watson you are a big stop reaching on guards dude lol he didn’t learn from his first attempt
timme控球好多失誤，唔控好啲
Gonzaga Gonzaga Gonzaga. They have them #1 ranked again!!!! And once again they will lose when it comes down to it. Stop having Gonzaga ranked #1 and top seed. Maybe #20 ranked is acceptable.
They just haven't won it all yet. They deserve a top 5 ranking.
@@joshuacarson1277 NO! 👎
B-A-Y-L-O-R BEARS FIGHT
they gone💀
I know Baylor was win the 2021 ncaa college basketball championship
1:14:15AND 1. 😂
So, would UCLA have given Baylor a better game than Gonzaga did?
yes gonzaga got lucky just like oklahoma state would give baylor better game
Nah still would’ve caught a beat down.
No, every college team in the nation would get beat by 20 the way baylor was playing
@@gionsagalongos8813 I agree baylor was on another level.
I think Baylor would have crushed any team that showed up lol. The Bears were just too strong.
The semifinal for Gonzaga was awesome, but this game was kinda boring, since gonzaga never even lead.
It was boring because it was a clinic and domination by Baylor. In some ways, that was fun to watch. Yes, the game didn't live up to the hype, but people will talk about Baylor's domination just like Gonzaga's thrilling win for years to come.
It was boring to you because you must be a Gonzaga fan. As a Baylor fan we loved every minute SIC’EM BEARS!!!! 🐻
It’s boring because Baylor is head and shoulders above everybody. This was their league this year.
@@welcome2paridice824 I’m a nova fan, but I just think that it was a really one sided game, no hate to Baylor or anything. They are a Great team though
@@welcome2paridice824 SIC'EM!!!!
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