SAN ANTONIO - Too big.
NHL Jerseys China . Too strong. Too fast. Baylor was too much of just about everything for Creighton and Doug McDermott to
handle. And because of it, the sixth-seeded Bears are rolling out of Texas
toward California and the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 after an impressive 85-55 win
Sunday night in the West Regional. Isaiah Austin and Canadian Brady Heslip each
scored 17 points and Baylor used suffocating defence to shut down McDermott,
ending the career of one of college basketballs most prolific scorers. "We did a
good job making it tough on him," Bears coach Scott Drew said. McDermott, who
averaged 27 points this season, finished with 15 but had just three in the first
half as Baylor built a 20-point lead. McDermott ranks fifth on the NCAA career
scoring list with 3,150 points. Baylor (26-11) had five players score in double
figures and shot 64 per cent in one of the dominant performances of the
tournament. The rest of the West bracket may want to pay attention to this one.
A team that looked like a wreck six weeks ago with a 2-8 start in the Big 12 is
brimming with confidence to match all that muscle in the lineup. "We take pride
in people hating on us, and we love proving people wrong," Austin said.
"Everybody has bought into the one goal that we have in mind and that is winning
a national championship." Baylor plays No. 2 seed Wisconsin on Thursday in
Anaheim. In Baylors two previous trips to the Sweet 16, it fell one game short
of the Final Four. McDermott carried the Bluejays back to the round of 32 for
the third year in a row, and had done it in spectacular style, leading the
nation in scoring with a sublime shooting touch and uncanny knack to slither his
way through defenders for layups and putback baskets. McDermott spurned the
chance to turn pro after last season, and this was the year the Bluejays and
their senior-laden lineup were expected to drive Creighton farther into the NCAA
tournament than any Bluejays team before them. But Baylors defence gave him
nothing: neither space to shoot nor even chances for his teammates to pass him
the ball. And for all the talk about Creightons maturity and bonding, Baylor
made the Bluejays look small and slow. "This is the worst weve played all
season, and it just stinks that its the last one. But that doesnt take away from
all my memories here. Its tough to go out this way," McDermott said. Baylor came
out blazing from long range, knocking down five 3-pointers in the first 7
minutes. Kenny Chery of Montreal made three and when Heslip, who was 0 for 6 in
Fridays win over Nebraska, swished his first against Creighton, he mockingly
shook the fingers on both hands as he loped back down the court. "We were just
expecting it to be a fight, to be honest," said Heslip, whos from Burlington,
Ont. McDermott, meanwhile, struggled to find any kind of space inside or out
against Baylors zone defence and badly misfired on his first attempt, a baseline
shot that missed everything. This rout was just beginning. The Bears flexed
their muscle early and often with a lineup built for the rigours of the Big 12.
Austin is 7-foot-1 and he teamed with 6-10 forward Cory Jefferson in the
frontcourt. When Creighton missed a shot, the typical result was three Bears
under the basket with no Bluejays around. Baylors bench was just as
intimidating. When reserve forward Rico Gathers pushed his 6-foot-8, 270-pound
frame through the lane for a layup, two Creighton defenders were powerless to
stop him. By the time Baylor had built a 20-point halftime lead, McDermott had
taken only three shots, made one and had two fouls. "We knew we had them on
their heels," Austin said. "We wanted to step on their throat." Even when
Creighton got a spark — Ethan Wragge made two 3-pointers early in the second
half — Baylor simply matched basket for basket, denying any hopes of a rally.
Soon it was showtime as Baylors lead kept growing. Jefferson slammed down an
alley-oop dunk for a 58-34 lead with just more than 12 minutes to play. Gathers
added another rim-rattler a few minutes later, his broad shoulders soaring to
the basket to punctuate the night. When McDermott left the game with 2:31 to
play, he hugged his father, Creighton coach Greg McDermott, before retreating to
the bench and burying his face in a towel. "Im not sure it was Baylor being that
good or us being that bad," Greg McDermott said. "Over the course of the season
youre going to have a few clunkers. We had one at the wrong time."
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