The 2019–20 Baylor Bears basketball team were represented by
Baylor University in the
2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 5, 2019. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded prematurely on March 12, 2020. The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was sch ...
. The Bears were led by 17th-year head coach
Scott Drew and played their games at the
Ferrell Center in
Waco, Texas as members of the
Big 12 Conference.
Previous season
The
Bears finished the
2018–19 season 20–14 overall and 10–8 in
Big 12 play, finishing in fourth place. As the No. 4 seed in the
Big 12 tournament
The Big 12 Conference sponsors championships in 23 sports, 10 men's and 13 women's. The first conference championship awarded was the 1996 softball postseason tournament championship, which was won by Oklahoma.
From 2011 through 2016, the foot ...
, they were defeated by
Iowa State
Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...
in the quarterfinals. They received a no. 9 seed the
NCAA tournament where they defeated
Syracuse
Syracuse may refer to:
Places Italy
*Syracuse, Sicily, or spelled as ''Siracusa''
*Province of Syracuse
United States
*Syracuse, New York
**East Syracuse, New York
**North Syracuse, New York
*Syracuse, Indiana
* Syracuse, Kansas
*Syracuse, Miss ...
in the first round before losing to
Gonzaga
Gonzaga may refer to:
Places
* Gonzaga, Lombardy, commune in the province of Mantua, Italy
* Gonzaga, Cagayan, municipality in the Philippines
*Gonzaga, Minas Gerais, town in Brazil
*Forte Gonzaga, fort in Messina, Sicily
People with the surna ...
in the second round.
Offseason
Departures
Incoming transfers
2019 recruiting class
2020 Recruiting class
Roster
Schedule and results
Source
Baylor Bears schedule
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No. 5
, vs. (10) Kansas State
''Quarterfinals''
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Kansas City, MO
Rankings
*AP does not release post-NCAA tournament rankings.
References
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