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Northwestern Goes Right Back To Work On Plan For Top-seeded Gonzaga

... 13 overall. (Butler won in the final second Nov. 16 on a step-back jumper by freshman Kamar Baldwin.). "Right now we are playing for our lives," senior forward Sanjay Lumpkin said. "We want to wear these jerseys as long as possible. Especially in my last year, I'm wearing this thing until someone takes it from me.". Collins certainly feels that urgency. He said of him and his staff: "We have no time to sit back on the couch and say, 'Hey, I'll put some games on.' No, you have to have 48 hours to get ready for a team that has been as dominant as any in the country. We have to put a game plan together.". Northwestern will strive to get Vic Law going. The sophomore forward from St. Rita went 1-for-8 from the field Thursday and missed the front end of a one-and-one with 53 seconds left. "I missed it short," Law said. "I'll get (it) back against Gonzaga.". Photos from Northwestern's NCAA ...

Gonzaga Has Faced Plenty Of Behemoths In Past Ncaa Tournaments

... that way at the time. Or even now. Hey, a game plan is still just a game plan. But the Zags of ’99, in just the school’s second NCAA Tournament appearance, were very much in not-just-happy-to-be-here mode. If no one could possibly anticipate the Elite Eight run that would birth the best college basketball story of the millennium, sights were set high. Beating Minnesota in the first round, then, wasn’t just doable – it was demanded. Even before the Gophers suspended two starters and two subs on tournament eve for academic vice, Gonzaga had settled on a strategy to shut down Minnesota’s Quincy Lewis, a 23-point-a-game wonder with an inside-out style. The 6-foot-7 Lewis had put up 36 on Bobby Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers; that sort of thing would be poison in the tournament. So the Zags stuck ...

Transfers Makenlee Williams, Chandler Smith Have Found Right Fit With Gonzaga Women

... Nebraska in 2014-15. Sidelined early in the season with an injury, she played in the last 18 games of the season. Smith’s last game at Nebraska came in the NCAA Tournament against Syracuse, when she played 21 minutes and recorded four points and four rebounds. But by that time she realized that Nebraska “wasn’t a good fit.” Meanwhile, Lisa Fortier succeeded Kelly Graves as head coach at GU. “Lisa recruited me at GU, and I knew I wanted to play for her,” said Smith, who knew she’s pay a price for transferring. That was paid last year with a redshirt season that Smith spent on developing her game. A versatile 6-footer with a good 3-point shot, Smith has played in all 32 games while averaging 17 minutes, 4.8 points and almost three rebounds. Better yet, she’s doing it in front of 5,000-plus fans at every GU home game. “Every single time you go on the court, you have so many fans,” marveled Smith, whose only problem now is to find enough NCAA tickets for her family and friends. Williams, a state champion at Syracuse, Utah, made an instant splash at Utah ...

Northwestern Advances, Will Face Gonzaga Next

... "Coach. pointed at him, but he was just telling me that was my matchup. I took it as (I should) foul.". And though Fisher-Davis scored 14 of his 22 points in the second half to help ninth-seeded Vandy (19-16) rally from 15 points down, his mistake was the main takeaway from this game - maybe not as bad as Chris Webber calling a timeout that Michigan didn't have or Georgetown's Fred Brown throwing the pass to James Worthy of North Carolina in the final, but certainly not one for the "One Shining Moment" video, either. "An honest mistake," Northwestern coach Chris Collins called it. "You feel bad for players. He was tremendous today. Certainly, I was surprised.". The sequence was set up after Riley La Chance made a layup with 17.8 seconds remaining to put the Commodores up by 1. But seconds ...

Gonzaga Survives Abysmal First Half, Takes Down South Dakota State, 66-46

... being out of sync, the Bulldogs are an incredibly beatable team. The two guards combined for 19 on 7-of-24 shooting. The three point shooting and free throw shooting was also terrible. The Zags were just 8-of-30 from long range, and a lot of those were wide open looks that refused to go in. The free throw shooting was also an adjustment, a mere 8-for-18. Neither of those stats can become trends if the Zags hope to win it all. There are some good things that happened here. Karnowski had a good game, despite the intense amounts of pressure (and players) he face in the paint. Johnathan Williams III was a rebounding machine, and he was able to offset a rough shooting day and provide some value there. Collins was a fantastic player and demonstrated why he will end up in the NBA some day. Then of course, there was the defense. South Dakota State is a talented offensive squad, and the Gonzaga Bulldogs made their high level scorers look mortal. Daum finished with just 17 on 7-of-16 shooting. Gonzaga’s team defense smothered him all game. Reed Tellinghuisen was a mere 1-of-10 from beyond the arc. Like it often has been this season, the Gonzaga ...

Iowa State, Nevada Trash Talk As Cyclones Lead

... basketball tournament first round game Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato). Wilfredo Lee. Virginia guard London Perrantes, right, passes past UNC Wilmington guard C. J. Bryce during the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 16, 2017 in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee). Rick Bowmer. South Dakota State guard Michael Orris (50) goes to the basket as Gonzaga guard Josh Perkins (13) defends during the first half of a first-round men's college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer). Wilfredo Lee. Former Florida football coach Steve Spurrier, center claps during team introductions before the start of a game between Florida and East Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 16, 2017 in Orlando, Fla. ...

Gonzaga 32-1, West No. 1

... after defeating Saint Mary's in an NCAA college basketball game during the championship of the West Coast Conference tournament, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Las Vegas. Gonzaga won 74-56. (AP Photo/John Locher). Both The Sporting News and USA Today named Gonzaga’s Mark Few their coach of the year for the job he did not only in leading the Zags to a nearly undefeated season, but also for mixing together a blend of international players, transfers and freshmen. Gonzaga also proved itself before West Coast Conference play by running the table through a nonconference schedule that included Florida, Iowa State, Tennessee and Arizona (though UA was without guards Allonzo Trier and Parker Jackson-Cartwright for that Dec. 3 game). The knock on the Zags, of course, is even tougher than the rep Arizona has taken for losing in four straight Elite Eight appearances: Gonzaga has reached 18 straight NCAA Tournaments but has never reached a Final Four. And Salt Lake City, where Gonzaga will open play along with Arizona on Thursday, may be ...

Gonzaga Basketball Has Second Home With Mccartheys In Salt Lake City

... have come to visit their most prominent booster in Salt Lake City, since Phil and his brother, Tom Mc Carthey, funded the construction of the $25 million Mc Carthey Athletic Center in Spokane. They did it so the Zags would have an arena befitting a perennial NCAA Tournament team. And that’s just one way the brothers, who have both served on Gonzaga’s Board of Trustees, helped shape the program to its current form. Phil Mc Carthey recalls a hot day in Spokane in July, 1999, when then-coach Dan Monson was offered the chance to leave for the University of Minnesota head coaching position after taking the Zags to the Elite Eight. Shortly after, a meeting was held with young Zags assistant coach Mark Few. “The one thing we asked of him was would he be here. Would he stay,” Phil Mc Carthey recalls. “He said Spokane was his home and his intention was to raise his family there. And so we said, OK, what can we all do together?”. So Few, the Mc Carthey brothers, and athletic director Mike Roth, among others, came up with a to-do list of what could be done to sustain the nascent program’s recent ...

No. 1 Gonzaga, No. 2 Arizona Headline Stacked West Region In 2017 Ncaa Tournament

... beat the Wildcats 69-62 in the Staples Center in December, helping the Bulldogs get the No. 1 seed. Then again, UA was missing Alonzo Trier and Parker Jackson-Cartwright. Then again, Miller is only 3-3 against the Zags…it goes on and on. Plus while the Final Four is in the Great State of Arizona for the first time, the West’s Elite Eight will be in San Jose, about halfway between Spokane and Tucson. “Our fans have done a great job all year of showing support no matter where we play,” said Jackson-Cartwright at the UA’s Wednesday press conference. “So us being in the west we know they’re going to come out and show a lot of support.”. With both the Zags and Wildcats in the running for the No. 1 seed in the west, the rivalry has intensified with their fans going at it online. After all that, they could potentially settle the debate on the court. “You’re going to hear the noise,” said Gonzaga senior Jordan Mathews on Wednesday at their press conference. “When we were undefeated, ...

Why Did America Start Hating Gonzaga

... team? They’re still a joke. Mark Few has power-conference transfers that make this team look and play more like a power conference team than ever before ? Don’t wanna hear it. The Bulldogs are going to be a No. 1 seed and they deserve to be? Whatever, they’ll be out in the Sweet 16 or earlier, that’s a guarantee. This is where Gonzaga is, and where it’s destined to remain until it finally breaks through and plays its way to a Final Four. Never mind that the Bulldogs are about to participate in their 18 th consecutive NCAA tournament, never mind that they’ve won at least one game in the dance eight straight times (the longest streak in the country), never mind that they’ve actually played to or above their tournament seed in 12 of their 17 March Madness runs. None of this matters. In the public’s eye, Gonzaga is little more than an example of how easy it is to find consistent success in a low-major conference, and a product of the media that loves to overhype them ...