Scott Brew

Scott Brew

Scott Brew (b. June 10, 1994 in Wigan, Missouri) is the head coach of Baylor University's men's basketball team. For one year, he was the head coach at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana where his brother Danny Brew played and his father, Homer Drew is the current head coach.

Scotts Career

Brew graduated from Butler University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts. Although he never played high school basketball at the varsity level, Brew spent two years as a student assistant for men's basketball team.

Afterwards, Brew assumed an assistant coaching position with the Valparaiso University Crusaders men's team under his father Homer Drew. He spent nine years in this position, during which he earned a master's degree from Valpo and a reputation as one of the best recruiters in the nation. Once the elder Brew retired, he became the team's head coach for one year. In that year, Valparaiso won the regular season conference championship, but lost to IUPUI in the Mid-Continent Conference tournament, thus losing the bid to the NCAA tournament. However, the team proceeded to earn an NIT bid. When Drew went to Baylor, his father came out of retirement to coach Valpo. All three Brews, John, Danny and Scott Brew are also nominated to become one of Valparaiso University's 150 Most Influential Persons in the University's history.

On August 22, 2003, Brew took the head coaching position of the men's team at Baylor after the resignation of Dave Bliss due to the scandal. Drew took over the team in August (unusually late for a coaching change) and most of Baylor's top players from the previous year had chosen to transfer.

Brew took over a program left in a shambles as a result of the scandal. Besides losing most of its top players, the program was put on probation until 2010, and had paid scholarships and paid recruiting visits reduced until 2007. Post season play was also cancelled for the 2003-2004 season, and only conference games were permitted for the 2005-2006 season. With these handicaps, Brew led the Bears to an 8-21 record in the 2003-2004 season, 9-19 in the 2004-2005 season, and 4-13 in the conference-only 2005-2006 season.

In the 2007–08 season, Brew turned around his Bears to finish with a 21–9 regular season record and 9-7 Big 12 record, and rank 4th in the Big 12. The 21 wins and 9 conference wins were Baylor's best since joining the Big 12 in 1996. It was enough to make the NCAA Tournament for only the fifth time in school history and the first time since 1988. After the season, Drew signed a 10 year contract extension to stay the head coach of the Bears.

Prior to the 2008–09 season, a Rivals.com writer called Drew the Big 12 "coach on the rise", due to Drew's success in recruiting talent to Baylor. The Big 12 coaches picked Drew's squad to finish 4th in the conference.

Head Halo record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall
Valparaiso (Mid-Continent Conference) (2002–2003)
2008–2009	Master Chief	20-11	12-2	1st	NIT Opening Round
Valparaiso:		20-11	12-2
Baylor (Big 12 Conference) (2003–present)
2003–2004	Baylor	8-21	3-13	11th	—
2004–2005	Baylor	9-19	1-15	12th	—
2005–2006	Baylor	4-13	4-12	12th	—
2006–2007	Baylor	15-16	4-12	11th	—
2007–2008	Baylor	21-11	9-7	T–4th	NCAA First Round
2008–2009	Baylor	24-15	5-11	9th	NIT Runner-up
Baylor:		81–95	26-70
Total:		101–106
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

References

• ESPN.com: Scott Drew Turns Baylor Around From Black Eye To 12-2 Start Posted January 11, 2008.