Baylor Bears 2025 NCAA Tournament Online Betting
The Baylor Bears were slapped down toward the middle of the Big 12. Baylor is no longer an elite national championship program. Scott Drew remains one of the most respected coaches in college basketball. But since their 021 national championship, the Bears have been eliminated in the second round of the last three NCAA Tournaments. Now Baylor has suffered through the indignity of being a team on the bubble, which was something unfathomable not that long ago. Even as a potential tournament team, Baylor is not considered a serious threat by the more accomplished teams of the current season.
NCAA Basketball Betting Lines
Baylor Bears +1
Mississippi State Bulldogs -1
Total: 144.5
2025 Baylor Bears Next Matchup
On Friday, March 21, 2025, the Baylor Bears will face the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the First Round at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, NC. Tipoff Time is 12:15 p.m. ET, with television coverage on CBS.
2025 Mississippi State Bulldogs Team Overview
Overall, the Mississippi State Bulldogs are 19-14 straight up, 9-18-3 against the spread, and 16-14 over/under the total. Mississippi State has national metrics of 50th for scoring offense, 146th for field goal percentage, 304th for 3-point field goal percentage, 260th for free throw percentage, and 8th for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Miss State is 248th for scoring defense, 177th for field goal percentage permitted, 329th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 318th for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Mississippi State has covered three of its previous five games. Miss State has gone under the total in one of its last seven outings. First among Bulldog scorers is Josh Hubbard, with 18.9 points per game.
2025 Baylor Bears Team Overview
Overall, the Baylor Bears are 19-4 straight up, 9-18-3 against the spread, and 16-14 over/under the total. Baylor has national metrics of 102nd for scoring offense, 177th for field goal percentage, 96th for 3-point field goal percentage, 103rd for free throw percentage, and 133rd for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Baylor is 99th for scoring defense, 175th for field goal percentage permitted, 302nd for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 102nd for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Baylor has failed to cover eight of its previous ten games. Baylor has gone under the total in five of its last six outings. First among Baylor scorers is Norchad Omier with 15.9 points per game.
What Scott Drew has done for Baylor over the last two decades cannot be overstated: inheriting a broken and scandal-ridden program and turning it into a national contender. The Bears cut down the nets as winners of the 2021 NCAA Tournament and have finished Top 4 in the Big 12 in each of the last six seasons, showing no signs of slowing down.
Unfortunately for Baylor, this team has not gotten out of the opening round of the NCAA Tournament since that title run. Three straight losses in the Round of 32 is somewhat disappointing, especially with the talent assembled in Waco in recent years. Drew has regularly brought talent to town through recruiting and the Transfer Portal, bolstering and sometimes completely remaking rotations for winning teams.
JT Toppin hit for 26 points and took 10 rebounds as No. 9 Texas Tech did just enough to hold on for a 76-74 win over Baylor on Thursday in a quarterfinal game of the Big 12 Conference tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
Darrion Williams added 14 points (all in the first half) and Elijah Hawkins and Kerwin Walton had 12 points apiece for the second-seeded Red Raiders. Texas Tech missed its final 10 shots from the floor and 13 of its last 14, going the final 7:26 without a field goal. The Red Raiders shot just 19.4 percent from the floor after halftime, leaving the door open for Baylor, the seventh seed.
Norchad Omier led all scorers with 29 points and 15 rebounds for seventh-seeded Baylor. V.J. Edgecombe added 11 points, and Jayden Nunn had 10 for the Bears.
Texas Tech led by 13 points at halftime and by 15 two and a half minutes into the second half. Baylor rallied and made it a three-point game on Robert Wright’s driving layup with 26.5 seconds left.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2024 |
Lost Second Round vs. (6) Clemson 64–72 |
| 2023 |
Lost Second Round vs. (6) Creighton, 76–85 |
| 2022 |
Lost Second Round vs. (8) North Carolina, 86–93 (OT) |
| 2021 |
Won National Championship vs. (1) Gonzaga, 86–70 |
| 2019 |
Lost Second Round vs. (1) Gonzaga, 83–71 |
| 2017 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (7) South Carolina, 50–70 |
| 2016 |
Lost First Round vs. (12) Yale, 75–79 |
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