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Villanova Gets Top Seed; Kansas, North Carolina, Gonzaga Other No. 1's

... debate quickly, telling the commentators on CBS that Duke entered the week as a No. 4 seed. And though they kept winning over the weekend, "they got stopped on the way by teams that won both their regular-season and conference tournaments [Kentucky and Arizona] and they were never compared to teams on the No. 1 line," Hollis said. — NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 12, 2017. Teams getting left off the bubble included Syracuse and Illinois State. Syracuse was vulnerable because of its 84 th ranking in the RPI and 2-11 record on the road. Still, the Orange ouster was notable because of the outcry when Jim Boeheim's team made the field with a similarly mediocre resume last year — then made it all the way to the Final Four. Illinois State's chances took a blow when it lost to Wichita State by 20 in the final of the Missouri Valley Conference. Also, it turns out Wichita State wasn't as highly regarded as many suspected — the 20 th-ranked team in the latest Associated Press poll only got a 10 seed. With ...

Butte Couple Are Rock-solid Gonzaga Fans

... reach Spokane. “We are skiers,” Alana said. “All the years that we have been skiing when it says 'emergency travel only', that’s when the powder is good.”. Snowy conditions don’t stop the La Rocks, but they do check the weather and would consider driving over a day early if the conditions are too severe. The La Rocks are accustomed to inclement weather. “In Butte we can get (snow) any month out of the year,” Alana said. The last few years they have been lucky and dodged the worst winter storms. However, Alana could remember one year when they saw a bad accident almost every drive. The La Rocks’ connections to Gonzaga extend to when Alana attended Kinman Business University in Spokane. Alana also had a lot of friends from Butte who were students at Gonzaga. “We always say it was the Kinman girls who typed up the papers for the guys at Gonzaga — there were a lot of Butte kids,” she said. Get the latest sports news and scores sent to ...

Gonzaga Has Done What It Needs For A No. 1 Seed

... They own losses to Oregon and USC on the road, and an unfortunate home loss to Arizona. The big problem for the Bruins however, is yeah, that win over Kentucky looks great, but the rest of that non-conference schedule is rather frightening. Take out games against Texas A&M, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio State, UCLA’s average Ken Pom ranking for the rest of the non-conference slate is 245. And that brings us to Arizona, and the biggest problem there lies in a game on Dec. 3, where Gonzaga took down the Wildcats, 69-62. Arizona has had a great season and doesn’t own a single bad loss. They do, however, also own four losses, and one of those would be to the team they are theoretically seeded higher than. But none of this should matter at all. If you look at the advanced stats, Gonzaga is ranked No. 1 by Ken Pom. UCLA is next at No. 16, then Oregon at No. 17 and finally Arizona at No. 21. I get it, I get it—the Zags would be last if they played in the Pac 12. But the fact of the matter is that Gonzaga has won against top tier competition this season, just as much, if not more, than their direct competition to ...

Gonzaga Women Win Wcc Tournament Title

... in the paint. Stockton started the game with two high-difficulty layups and a face-up jumper from Barta forced a SMC timeout just a minute-and-a-half into the first quarter as the Zags led 6-0.  After back and forth play, Stockton found Barta and Elle Tinkle for layups for the 14-6 lead midway through the first quarter.  The Zags exploded on a 7-0 run to finish the quarter led by great transition baskets.  GU shot 76 percent from the field in the quarter, and outrebounded the Gaels 10-5, and outscored them in the paint 20-6.  Barta led with 13 first-quarter points.  The 32 points was two short of their season high set against Washington State. After a 5-0 start to the second quarter for SMC, the Zags responded on a 4-0 push to force another Gaels’ timeout.  Barta dropped a deep trey and Kiara Kudron spun around her defender for the ...

Gonzaga Receives #11 Seed, Will Play #6 Oklahoma Saturday

... team eased to a 77-46 victory over San Francisco in the West Coast Conference Tournament semifinals inside the Orleans Arena Monday. The Zags (25-6) finished with five players in double-digit scoring led by Kiara Kudron's 15 points. She was 7-of-9 from the field, and grabbed a game-high seven rebounds. Zykera Rice made six of her seven shots from the field and finished with 13 points. Jill Barta added 12 points. > >. Williams-Goss one of five finalists for Bob Cousy Award. Leads Team WIth 16.4 Points Per Game. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Gonzaga men's basketball's Nigel Williams-Goss was named one of the five finalists for the 2017 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award presented by College of the Holy Cross the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Monday. Named after Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtic and Holy Cross guard Bob Cousy, the annual honor now in its fourteenth year recognizes the top point guards in men's division one college basketball. A na. > >. ...

Arizona Looks To Take Down Gonzaga

... 35. Last Ten: 9-1. No. 16 South Dakota State. Brookings, 18-16. Nickname: Jackrabbits. Coach: T. J. Otzelberger. Conference: Summit League. Bid: Summitt champion. Tournament Record: 0-3, 3 years. Last appearance: 2016. Scoring: Team (77.6); Mike Daum 25.3; Reed Tellinghuisen 11.9; A. J. Hess 9.8. Rebounds: Team (35.0); Mike Daum 8.2; Reed Tellinghuisen 4.7; Chris Howell 4.2. Assists/Turnovers: Team __link__/12.9); Michael Orris __link__/2.3; Reed Tellinghuisen __link__/1.8; Tevin King __link__/1.2. 3-pointers: Team (.363); Mike Daum 77; Reed Tellinghuisen 73; A. J. Hess 66. Last Ten: 8-2. Nickname: Seminoles. Coach: Leonard Hamilton. Conference: Atlantic Coast. Bid: At large. Tournament Record: 15-14, 14 years. Last appearance: 2012. Scoring: Team (82.5); Dwayne Bacon 16.9; Jonathan Isaac 11.9; Xavier Rathan-Mayes 10.4. Rebounds: Team (37.7); Jonathan Isaac 7.6; Terance Mann 4.7; Dwayne Bacon 4.0. Assists/Turnovers: Team __link__/11.8); Xavier Rathan-Mayes __link__/1.8. 3-pointers: Team (.356); Dwayne Bacon 57; PJ Savoy 38; Xavier Rathan-Mayes 38; Jonathan Isaac 30. Last Ten: 6-4. No. 14 Florida ...

Numbers Adding Up For Gonzaga’s Defense

... 2013’s 59.9. The 32-win 2013 team, 35-win 2015 squad and current Zags boast similar stats. Former director of operations Jerry Krause charted in-depth statistics upon arriving in 2001. He handed off his files to John Jakus three years ago. “We still do the Jerry Krause post-game report,” Jakus said. “ Riccardo (Fois) does it. We’ve carried on the tradition.”. The Zags are second nationally with a.87 defensive efficiency rating (DER), based on the number of points per possession. The NCAA average is 1.04. DER factors include opponent FG percentage, turnover percentage, defensive rebounding percentage and free-throw percentage. “The best we’ve ever done (since tracking in the early 2000 s),” Jakus said. “It’s not just about the number, but the ability to switch ball screens, Zach (Collins) and Przemek (Karnowski) and the rim protection, the guards’ willingness to guard bigs after switches and box out.”. Gonzaga closely monitors made 3-pointers because WCC teams rely on the 3 more than most conferences. The ...

Gonzaga Earns No. 1 Seed In The West Region On Selection Sunday

... handle a close game. Aside from its loss to BYU, Gonzaga's only had one game decided by less than 10 points since Dec. 3. Gonzaga will play South Dakota State on Thursday, March 16, at 11 a.m. on TBS. (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.). Gonzaga earns No. 1 seed in the West region on Selection Sunday. SPOKANE, Wash. - Gonzaga is a No. 1 seed for the second time in school history, and it comes with some memories - not all of them good.      Gonzaga will face No. 16 seed South Dakota State on Thursday in Salt Lake City. The other time the Bulldogs received a No. 1 seed was 2013. And they were sent to Salt Lake City. Comeback Bid Falls Short As Spokane Drops Sixth In A Row. Photo: Larry Brunt/Spokane Chiefs. SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane Chiefs scored three goals in the third period in a comeback bid that fell just short on Saturday night at Spokane Arena as they lost to the visiting Prince George Cougars, 4-3. NHL Draft prospects Jaret Anderson-Dolan and Kailer Yamamoto led the offense for ...

Gonzaga Women Focus On Themselves, Not Ncaa Guessing Game

... will begin on Friday and end on Monday. That means less time to make travel plans. Now in her third year as head coach, Fortier said she’s “not veteran enough” to accurately predict where GU will be seeded. The Zags (26-6) are ranked 63 rd by RPI but 38 th according to Sagarin. A win over ninth-ranked Stanford is offset by losses to WCC also-rans Pepperdine and Pacific. Also, the WCC as a whole performed poorly in non-conference games, hurting GU’s strength of schedule. Bottom line: Fortier expects a 10, 11 or 12 seed – typical spots for a mid-major winner. “That’s not a terrible place to be,” said Fortier, who two years ago took a 10 th-seeded at-large qualifier to Corvallis, Oregon, and knocked off seventh seed George Washington and No. 2 Oregon State to reach the Sweet 16. Can this team repeat the feat. Quite possibly. They’re peaking at the right time, having blown away their WCC tournament opponents by an average of 23 points a game. Forwards Kiara Kudron and WCC tournament MVP Jill Barta looked dominant last week. “This is how you want it to happen – you want to play your best right now and we did ...

Gonzaga’s Dominance Lets Its Coach Sleep Soundly, But Everyone Else Is Wide-awake

... one of the most chronically disturbed subspecies in the species — that of American college basketball coach — and it deepened his sleep. It’s almost shocking. A team that “dominated like no team we’ve ever had,” said Gonzaga Coach Mark Few (who has helmed the Zags for 18 seasons), has left him in the arena hallways of March, mentioning but a trickle of semi-stressful flash points that came between Nov. 10 and March 7. He notes the 73-71 kerfuffle with Iowa State. He notes that Arizona did make that late run (but lost 69-62). Fleeting nuisance visited the Bulldogs’ last two wins here at the West Coast Conference Tournament, the final getting to 51-46 but winding up 74-56 over No. 19 St. Mary’s and what Few calls its “diabolical reads on the ball screens.” That made St. Mary’s the rare team with 75 percent of its losses — three out of four — to one team (Gonzaga). [ Feinstein: No, Gonzaga hasn’t been to a Final Four. But that’s not the point. ]. Here’s a coach in a season with an ...

Four Reasons Why Gonzaga Can Make Final Four

... at BYU and (Jock) Landale is in foul trouble every time we played them,” Gonzaga assistant coach Tommy Lloyd said. “Zach gets four fouls in seven, eight minutes and we’re OK.”. The backcourt of Williams-Goss, Mathews, Perkins and Melson provides points and defense. Gonzaga’s 3-point shooting tailed off a bit late in the season, but its season-long numbers remain strong. The foursome combined for 195 3-pointers and the team shoots 38.2 percent from distance. Elite defense. Gonzaga has never put up more points. The Zags average 84.6 per game, three points clear of the 2001 team’s current record. Their defense may be even better. It starts with protecting the rim, where Karnowski and company swat shots and, perhaps more importantly, alter shots. Opponents average 61.2 points, 36.8 percent shooting and just 30 percent beyond the 3-point line. “We have decent length and decent athleticism on the perimeter so we’re able to stick on shooters tighter,” Lloyd said. “But all of that is ...