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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 6, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Baylor MBB’s Drew Awarded the NABC Guardians of the Game Award for Leadership<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">BU’s head coach is one of five recipients to be honored at the Final Four
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, </span>
<a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">KANSAS CITY, Mo. – </span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor men’s basketball head coach Scott Drew has been awarded the National
Association of Basketball Coaches Guardians of the Game Award for Leadership, announced by the organization on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">The awards are presented each year at the NABC Convention to NABC-member coaches, administrators and contributors who embody the NABC’s five core values of leadership, service, education, advocacy
and inclusion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">“It's a great privilege to be named a Guardian of the Game,” Drew said. “Basketball has meant so much to my family and so many others, so it has been a true joy to be able to pass along
that love for the game to the next generation and beyond. God has given us a great platform to be leaders at our institutions and across the nation though the game of basketball, so to receive this honor alongside some great coaches and contributors is a true
blessing and honor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;background:white">In his 21<sup>st</sup> year with the Bears, Drew has orchestrated one of the greatest rebuilds in college basketball history, culminating with BU’s first Big 12 and
National Championship in 2021. That steady hand on the wheel for the last 21 years has built Baylor into a true college basketball power, as the Bears are the winningest power-five program over the last five years, and the only school in the nation to have
three-straight top-16 picks in the NBA draft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;background:white">While leading his players to on-court success over his 21 years in Waco, with 54 players going on to professional careers, Drew has also seen 40 of the 44 players who
exhausted their playing careers in Waco graduate from Baylor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;background:white">The 2023-24 Bears have won 20-plus games for the 15<sup>th</sup> time in the last 17 years and double-digit Big 12 games for the sixth-straight season and ninth time
in the last 10 years. In the 97 seasons prior to Drew, BU had just eight seasons with double-digit conference wins and three seasons with 20+ wins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;background:white">BU will be back in action on Saturday, March 9, when the 11th-ranked Bears travel to Texas Tech for a 5 p.m. tip at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock. The game will
be televised on ESPN2, with Rich Hollenberg and Adrian Branch on the call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Follow @BaylorMBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.BaylorBears.com">www.BaylorBears.com</a><b><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF) <br>
Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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