the zags are an amazing storybearister said:
21 consecutive wins by a double digit margin.
No, although they were in the title game in 2017.NVBear78 said:
Have they won an NCAA title yet? Real question and I can't recall.
Big C said:
I hate little piss ant schools like St. Mary's and Gonzaga that get better than we are in revenue sports. Mainly because I'm jealous. Sometimes I take solace in that we're the number one ranked public university in the world and they're just little schools with good basketball programs, but, still, I'd like to see us just SQUASH them on the hardwood.
Or Fresno or Bakersfield. I couldn't live with that.calumnus said:Big C said:
I hate little piss ant schools like St. Mary's and Gonzaga that get better than we are in revenue sports. Mainly because I'm jealous. Sometimes I take solace in that we're the number one ranked public university in the world and they're just little schools with good basketball programs, but, still, I'd like to see us just SQUASH them on the hardwood.
Better them than Duke or Stanford....
bearister said:
Well, as you will see in the following Axios story, Axios was wrong when it wrote 2 weeks ago that the Zags were going to break the record for most consecutive double digit wins this season, turns out they set the new record a couple of years ago (21 in a row) and have hit the 21 mark 3 times in 5 years.
" Gonzaga basketball has long been synonymous with success, but they've never had a team as dominant as this year's squad, Axios' Jeff Tracy writes.
Driving the news: The Bulldogs on Saturday completed the program's first undefeated regular season (24-0), and the first in men's Division I hoops since Kentucky in 2014-15.
By the numbers: Top-ranked Gonzaga started strong becoming the first team in D-I history to beat four AP top-20 teams in its first seven games and the Bulldogs haven't hit any roadblocks since.
They've scored a school record 92.9 points per game, which is as far ahead of second place Colgate (85.7) as Colgate is ahead of No. 41 James Madison (78.5).
For the third time in the last five seasons, they've compiled a 21-game streak of double-digit wins. The last team to reach a streak of even 20 such wins was UCLA ... 50 years ago.
They're shooting a blistering 55.3% from the field, which is the best mark since 1988-89 national champion Michigan shot 56.6%.
The backdrop: In the past two decades, Gonzaga has gone from middling program, to Cinderella story, to perennial tournament participant, to powerhouse. Looking for a reason? How about Mark Few.
Before Few arrived, Gonzaga had made the tournament just twice in 56 years (1995, 1999). Since then, they've gone 20 for 20, reaching at least the Sweet 16 in each of the past five.
Fun fact: Few's .834 career winning percentage (623-124) is the best all-time among Division I men's coaches (minimum 10 seasons).
The team: If this year's team is Few's best, it's thanks not to lightning in a bottle, but systematic growth.
Senior Corey Kispert (F, 6'7") is a POY contender, steadily improving from a seven-points-per-night freshman to a 20-point scorer shooting over 46% from deep.
Junior Joel Ayayi (G, 6'5") averaged less than two points per game as a freshman. In January, he recorded the program's first triple-double.
Sophomore Drew Timme (F, 6'10") has doubled his scoring output from a year ago to 19 points a night.
Then there's Jalen Suggs (G, 6'4"), the freshman super prospect; the kind of kid who would usually go to Duke or Kentucky for a year, but instead chose Gonzaga.
The state of play: It's an undeniable bummer that this tiny school in Spokane, Washington, is enjoying such historic success inside empty gyms amid a pandemic." Axios
I'm sold!bearister said:
Well, as you will see in the following Axios story, Axios was wrong when it wrote 2 weeks ago that the Zags were going to break the record for most consecutive double digit wins this season, turns out they set the new record a couple of years ago (21 in a row) and have hit the 21 mark 3 times in 5 years.
" Gonzaga basketball has long been synonymous with success, but they've never had a team as dominant as this year's squad, Axios' Jeff Tracy writes.
Driving the news: The Bulldogs on Saturday completed the program's first undefeated regular season (24-0), and the first in men's Division I hoops since Kentucky in 2014-15.
By the numbers: Top-ranked Gonzaga started strong becoming the first team in D-I history to beat four AP top-20 teams in its first seven games and the Bulldogs haven't hit any roadblocks since.
They've scored a school record 92.9 points per game, which is as far ahead of second place Colgate (85.7) as Colgate is ahead of No. 41 James Madison (78.5).
For the third time in the last five seasons, they've compiled a 21-game streak of double-digit wins. The last team to reach a streak of even 20 such wins was UCLA ... 50 years ago.
They're shooting a blistering 55.3% from the field, which is the best mark since 1988-89 national champion Michigan shot 56.6%.
The backdrop: In the past two decades, Gonzaga has gone from middling program, to Cinderella story, to perennial tournament participant, to powerhouse. Looking for a reason? How about Mark Few.
Before Few arrived, Gonzaga had made the tournament just twice in 56 years (1995, 1999). Since then, they've gone 20 for 20, reaching at least the Sweet 16 in each of the past five.
Fun fact: Few's .834 career winning percentage (623-124) is the best all-time among Division I men's coaches (minimum 10 seasons).
The team: If this year's team is Few's best, it's thanks not to lightning in a bottle, but systematic growth.
Senior Corey Kispert (F, 6'7") is a POY contender, steadily improving from a seven-points-per-night freshman to a 20-point scorer shooting over 46% from deep.
Junior Joel Ayayi (G, 6'5") averaged less than two points per game as a freshman. In January, he recorded the program's first triple-double.
Sophomore Drew Timme (F, 6'10") has doubled his scoring output from a year ago to 19 points a night.
Then there's Jalen Suggs (G, 6'4"), the freshman super prospect; the kind of kid who would usually go to Duke or Kentucky for a year, but instead chose Gonzaga.
The state of play: It's an undeniable bummer that this tiny school in Spokane, Washington, is enjoying such historic success inside empty gyms amid a pandemic." Axios
