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MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2011

Gonzaga woman's basketball players front row, left to right, Shannon Reader, Carter Schick, Courtney Vandersloot and Meghan Winter react to finding that they will play the University of Iowa in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane.  (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

Zags are homebound

As long as Gonzaga can stay in the NCAA Women's Tournament they don't have to leave home until it's time to head to the Final Four. Of course, they would probably have to pull off four upsets as well, but their chances have to be…

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Marquise Carter of  Gonzaga drives hard to the basket against the defense of Matthew Dellavedova of Saint Marys during their WCC Championship game on Monday. Carter was named the tournament's MVP. (Christopher Anderson / The Spokesman-Review)

Carter finds his way at Gonzaga

Back with a feature on junior guard Marquise Carter, who has been one of the primary reasons for Gonzaga's surge to a co-WCC title and conference championship. This will run in Tuesday's S-R, but here's a story link with more from Carter, his teammates and…

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Looking back at selection Sunday 

COUGARS As Monday mornings go, this one is pretty packed with news. After all, it was selection Sunday yesterday (and no, the "s" in selection doesn't need to or deserve to be capitalized), a good day for some teams (read, USC) and a bad day…

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Count down to women's NCAA show

Time will drag for most of the day, awaiting the Selection Show for the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 4 p.m. on ESPN. There are two items of local interest because Spokane is the first city the NCAA ever award first weekend games (at McCarthey…

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