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South Carolina Beats Florida, Will Face Zags In The Final Four

... beats Florida, will face Zags in the Final Four. UPDATED: SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2017, 8:35 P. M. South Carolina forward Chris Silva (30) grabs a rebound against Florida during the second half of the East Regional championship game of the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 26, 2017, in New York. (Julio Cortez / AP). Gonzaga is not the only gate-crasher to dance all the way to the Final Four for the first time this year. Its opponent, South Carolina, also made the NCAA Tournament’s final quartet for the first time after beating Florida 77-70 on Sunday afternoon. The seventh-seeded Gamecocks (26-10) did not pull away until the end of their battle with the fourth-seeded Gators. The game saw the lead change 14 times, the 14 th coming when Sindarius Thornwell hit a pair of free throws to put South Carolina up 65-63 with 2:24 left in the game. Thornwell scored eight straight points in the game’s final ...

Gonzaga Has Earned Those Tears, Turning Them From Agony To Joy

... staff, we won four Division I games,” said Few, whose Gonzaga history goes back 28 years. “I mean, this wasn’t even possible. And each year we got better and better, and then we got really, really good. “Our culture is just so strong. And this was a culture win, and a culture statement.”. It was delivered with what was easily the Zags’ best performance of the tournament. Even with 25 minutes still to play, Williams draining a 3 and flushing a dunk in the space of a minute spelled it out for the Musketeers – and you could see it all over of the face of their superfan, actor Bill Murray, camped right behind the press table. By the way, this makes the Bulldogs 2-0 against celebrity mascots. So they’ve got that going for them. Which is nice. But maybe the best thing was that the day was about joy and not just relief. Silas Melson noted it was the happiest he’d ever seen his coach. “Me, too,” said Few’s wife, Marcy. More than on their wedding day. “He was bewildered ...

Gonzaga Topples Xavier, 83-59, To Reach Final Four

... on Few's resume, which includes 18 straight NCAA tournaments, eight trips to the Sweet 16 and a third Elite Eight after surviving West Virginia's constant pressure in the regional semifinals. The Zags struggled to find an offensive rhythm against the Mountaineers — who doesn't? — but had it flowing against Xavier. Gonzaga came into the Elite Eight hitting 29 percent of its 3-point shots after making 37 percent during the season. The Zags found the range early against Xavier, hitting 8 of 13 from the arc in the first half, mostly against the Musketeers' zone or on kick-outs from center Przemek Karnowski. Xavier got off to a good start offensively by working the ball around, but hit a dry spell and made 1 of 5 from 3-point range as Gonzaga stretched to lead to 49-39 by halftime. Halftime did little to slow the Zags, who pushed the lead to 59-42 on 3-pointers by ...

Ag Ferguson Tells Gonzaga Students How To Sue A President

... travel ban. Ferguson, who started his legal career in Spokane after attending law school in New York, led Washington to become the first state to formally challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries. During those proceedings, the Department of Justice asserted the president should have “unreviewable authority to suspend the admission of any class of aliens.”. During a presentation Friday at Gonzaga’s law school, Ferguson projected that line onto a large screen. The words “unreviewable authority” appeared in bold text. “I was fascinated by that argument,” he told the crowd. “Are we not a democracy? Do we not have a system of checks and balances?”. Ferguson visited Washington State University on Thursday and Gonzaga on Friday to update listeners on the status of the complicated legal battles surrounding Trump’s immigration orders – both of which have been blocked by federal judges pending constitutional challenges. Ferguson found himself in the national spotlight after his team successfully argued for the first injunction in ...

South Carolina, Gonzaga, Oregon And North Carolina

... 7-for-12 from downtown in the opening 20 minutes. Justin Leon had a team-high 18 points for Florida. South Carolina will take on Gonzaga in the first semifinal Saturday at Glendale, Arizona. Like the Gamecocks, the Bulldogs have never played in a Final Four before. In Sunday's second game, North Carolina was facing overtime until Luke Maye drained a jumper with 0.3 seconds left to give the top-seeded Tar Heels a 75-73 win over Kentucky in the South Regional final. Maye's game-winning bucket came after Kentucky freshman Malik Monk hit a 3-pointer to tie the game with 7.2 seconds remaining. De'Aaron Fox also hit a trey after North Carolina went on a 12-0 to take a six-point lead late in the game. Maye finished with 17 points off the bench for North Carolina. Justin Jackson scored 19 points, and Joel Berry II added 11. Bam Adebayo and Fox each had 13 points for the Wildcats, while Monk finished with 12. North Carolina will play ...

Yesterday Was A Huge Day For Gonzaga, Spokane

... to its players. … There is regional coverage as well, from Larry Stone’s column in the Seattle Times to game and legacy coverage from the Bay Area newspapers. But my favorite thing of all is this cellphone video of Few getting another assist from Przemek Karnowski. WSU: The Washington State women are still playing but will face a tough task against host Iowa today in the WNIT. The Cougars have posted three consecutive WNIT wins. … The baseball team swept Cal State Northridge in a home doubleheader. … Around the Pac-12, Oregon kept its season alive with a 74-60 upset of top-seeded Kansas in the Midwest Region. The Ducks’ Tyler Ennis and Dillon Brooks shot down the Jayhawks in Kansas City. … Former Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves became the first women’s coach to lead two double-digit seeds to the ...

Top-seeded Gonzaga Survives For 61-58 Win Over West Virginia

... shooting 26.7 percent for the game, West Virginia stayed close and took a 58-55 lead on a 3-pointer by Carter with 1:47 to play. Nigel Williams-Goss answered with two free throws. After Daxter Miles Jr. missed two fouls shots and Nathan Adrian was blocked by Josh Perkins on the putback, Williams-Goss found Mathews in the corner for the open 3-pointer that proved the game-winner. Mathews, Przemek Karnowski and Johnathan Williams all had 13 points to lead the Bulldogs. Carter led the Mountaineers with 21 points. The game was tied at 30 after a first half that was far from an aesthetic masterpiece with 27 fouls and just 16 baskets. The teams combined for 29 percent shooting, including 2 for 16 from 3-point range. The Bulldogs created some space early in the second when Mathews hit 3 s on consecutive trips and added a free throw for a four-point play on the second to make it 41-34. But the Mountaineers fought back and the game stayed tight until the end. BIG PICTURE. West Virginia: The Mountaineers could get nothing going offensively most of the night but a pair of 3-pointers by Carter in the second half helped them fight back from an eight-point deficit ...

Beard Options For Jay Bilas’s Final Four Bet

... this bet, he’d try and replicate the impressive, bushy wonder that’s currently donned by the Gonzaga big man. Honestly, this would be the best look for Bilas, and it’d do the most justice to the integrity of the bet. The Silver Screen. One of my favorite Pacino movies is Serpico. Besides being an undercover fighter of corruption, Frank Serpico possessed an incredible beard and a flowing set of hair. I even threw in the aviators for good measure. With a name inspired by two of my favorite things — movies and basketball picks — this is the look I’m pushing the hardest for Bilas to try. Long Runner. One of the hallmarks of broadcasts with Bilas on the call is his segment called “94 Feet.” He picks a player from one of the teams playing, and walks with them from baseline to baseline, asking them a series of questions in a casual interview. If he ever wants to, say, run the 94 feet instead of saunter through it (or if he wants go farther than the confines of the court), he should consider taking up the look of another beloved movie character. This one would take the most time, but ...

Gonzaga Displays A Key Character Trait As They Survive West Virginia And Advance To The Elite Eight

... have emphasized freedom of movement over and over the past few years. It’s just by this time of the year such lofty expectations – you know, that a player can dribble down the court without the defender riding him like Roy Rogers – go out the window. To win against such tactics take physical and mental toughness. Over the years, such traits haven’t been at the top of Gonzaga’s resume. This year they are. It shows in the Zags’ defensive stats. It has shown itself in the few close games they have played this season. And it showed last night down the stretch. When it mattered most, the Bulldogs met West Virginia’s challenge with resolution. They held on to the tough rebounds. They took – and hit – shots that required courage. And they locked down the Mountaineers best player, Jevon Carter, in the last few seconds. They toughed out a victory. And now they have to do it again ...

Which Is The Real Final Four Favorite

... Karnowski. Oregon’s Tyler Dorsey and Dillon Brooks. But — sorry, dudes — Gamecocks senior guard Sindarius Thornwell is the man. In four games, he has scored 105 points, hit one clutch free throw after another and battled amid the bigs to pull down an amazing 30 rebounds. He’s your player of the tournament thus far, and it isn’t even close. “Thornwell was just being Thornwell,” Florida coach Mike White said after the East Regional MVP hung 26 on the Gators. “He’s one of the best players in the country.”. The better semifinal: Given the way 33-game winner Oregon dismantled top-seeded Kansas in the Midwest Regional final, the answer has to be Ducks-Heels. It’ll certainly be the more-hyped game, and it probably should be. What’s so notable about Zags-Gamecocks, though, is that it marks the first head-to-head meeting of Final Four newcomers since eventual runner-up Memphis State beat Providence in 1973. There haven’t even been two newbies in the same Final Four field since UMass and Mississippi State made it in 1996. Crazy, right. The Cinderella: It’s South Carolina, of course. But is America really ready to fall in love with a team whose coach looks ...