Eighteen years ago, at the beginning of my senior season on the Baylor University basketball team, my teammates and I sat in the front row for a press conference at the Ferrell Center. After living through one of the worst scandals in sports history, we were about to meet our new coach. In walked 32-year-old Scott Drew. You could feel his energy vibrating with every step. He said he came to win games, to make deep postseason runs, and ultimately to win a national championship. At the time, I didn’t share his optimism. I looked at our roster full of misfits—depending on the day, we had six or seven scholarship athletes and a handful of walk-ons. After three years of competing against the best of the…View Original Post