Baylor 72, Kansas State 70 (overtime)
After one of the most disgusting scandals to hit modern sports left Baylor basketball a barren wasteland, the team suited up against Kansas State and used 5 extra minutes to embarrass the Wildcats:
Curtis Jerrells ended Baylor's losing streak with a clutch basket in the final seconds of overtime Wednesday night to give the Bears a 72-70 overtime win over Kansas State.The team hadn't won in over a year. Now that is a losing streak, people.Jerrells, a freshman who had been around for only the last six of the 20 losses, took a kickback pass from Tim Bush, nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing with 22 seconds remaining to end the winless string that dated to Jan. 19, 2005, when the Bears defeated Colorado 67-59.
For those who missed Dave Bliss' tenure at BU, the former basketball head coach resigned after one of his players murdered a teammate. Carlton Dotson pleaded guilty last year of the murder of Patrick Dennehy in 2003.
Coach Bliss was paying for Dennehy's tuition — a major NCAA violation — and to keep his transgressions secret he told his players to cover up his own wrongdoings by creating a story that Dennehy paid for his tuition by selling drugs.
"Don't portray an innocently murdered kid as a drug dealer" doesn't appear in the Bible. It's just understood.
After uncovering a few more violations at Baylor and at his previous stints at Southern Methodist University and the U. of New Mexico, Coach Bliss resigned. Baylor athletic director Tom Stanton followed suit. Players were allowed to transfer to other schools immediately (usually you have to sit out a year). The Baylor basketball program was thoroughly scrubbed clean.
Only two players decided to stay and one of those — Tommy Swanson — is still on the team.
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