After his two-season break, he guided the team to a 25–5 record, Southwest Conference championship, and NCAA tournament berth in 1945–46.

[1] In the 1948 NCAA tournament, the Bears reached the title game, rallying from sizable deficits against Washington and Kansas State along the way.

[6] Henderson's total of 201 wins was a Baylor men's basketball record until current coach Scott Drew passed him in 2014.

[7][8] Henderson has been noted for barring his players from smoking, drinking, and swearing,[5] and for what author Allan Zullo called his "nervous habit of tying and untying his shoes at critical points in a game so he wouldn't have to watch a play unfold.

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