Shortly after Bryce Drew took the Vanderbilt job this past April, he was informed the Commodores had Baylor on this year's schedule.
He cringed.
So did Baylor coach Scott Drew.
They both remembered back in 2007 when then-Oklahoma coach Sean Sutton brought his brother, Scott, also the Oral Roberts head coach, into Stillwater. ORU wound up leaving with a 74-59 win.
"We both remember reading the article and envisioned what it would be like for the family," Bryce Drew said. "No one really wins."
"Even if we win, I'm hurting," Scott Drew said. "There's no real winner."
So the Drew brothers figured out a way to scrap the game, with Baylor paying the Commodores to get out of the matchup since it was slated to be played at Vanderbilt.
Instead of a contest that figures into the win-loss column, the brothers wound up playing one of the "secret scrimmages" this past weekend in Nashville. They will play another scrimmage next year in Waco.
"We didn't want to put anyone in our family through that," Scott Drew said. "Including our parents."
Their father, Homer, a former Valparaiso head coach, was sitting in the stands -- wearing a neutral-gold shirt.
"We had to get permission from the NCAA for him to be there," Scott Drew said.
Coaches aren't allowed to talk about stats or the final score of the scrimmage, but the Drew brothers maintain it was evenly played.
"It was a tie," Scott said, laughing.
"It was really close," Bryce added. "We split, so neither of us had bragging rights."
Scott and Bryce agreed that they will never schedule one another in a regular-season matchup, but are hopeful one day they can play -- in the Final Four.
While Bryce didn't want to comment on it, sources told ESPN that a year ago, Bryce took himself out of the equation for the Iowa State job, largely due to the fact that he didn't want to play his brother twice every year in the regular season.
"The games are so stressful as it is," Bryce said. "And there are 350 other Division I teams we can play. There's no reason to play one another."