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Vince Grippi: What’s the key to the Truong sisters’ success at Gonzaga? Loving the moment.

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

It’s hard to remember. Especially this time of year. March. NCAA Tournament time. All the hyperbole, intensity, heck, even the commercials, cover it up. The simple immutable truth gets buried.

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Next up for Gonzaga: Purdue, Zach Edey roll past Utah State and into the Sweet 16

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

Gonzaga has a Sweet 16 opponent. And it's a familiar one.

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Gonzaga-Kansas series remains on hold in complex college landscape

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

Gonzaga and Kansas agreed to a two-game series back in March 2020 – not long after the NCAA Tournament was canceled by the COVID pandemic with the Jayhawks ranked No. 1 and the Zags No. 2 – with the first contest 21 months down the road.

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Gonzaga rewind: Slowing Hunter Dickinson key to stopping Jayhawks in second half of Bulldogs’ rout of Kansas

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

SALT LAKE CITY – At this point of the college basketball season, Gonzaga fans would much rather press fast-forward than hit the rewind button.

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Vince Grippi: Defensive switch, sellout crowd help Zags change tide against UC Irvine

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

It doesn’t always have to be something big to change a course. A small tap on the tiller. A wind shift. Maybe a quick tightening of the sails.

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Difference makers: Yvonne Ejim powers Gonzaga past UC Irvine

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

YVONNE EJIM

Sports > WSU basketball

Dave Boling: Washington State waited a long time for this NCAA Tournament. The Cougs will be back again soon.

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. – The Washington State Cougars didn’t just arrive. They kicked the door in and pushed around the furniture, making themselves at home.

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Washington State forward Jaylen Wells broke out this season. Where does he go from here?

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. – Jaylen Wells wore a blank expression as he sat in his locker, deep in the hallways of the CHI Health Center, the site of his Washington State team’s 67-56 loss to Iowa State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.

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‘We proved that we belong’: Washington State keeps head high after second-round loss to Iowa State

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. – Not a tear appeared on the faces of Washington State players, whose season had just ended with a 67-56 loss to Iowa State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In the locker room, where the Cougars went to digest the end of the program’s best season in a decade and a half, players hardly seemed devastated.

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Gonzaga women start slow, storm past UC Irvine 75-56 in first round of NCAA Tournament

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

Gonzaga needed a spark.

Sports > NCAA basketball

NCAA Tournament in Spokane: Previewing Sunday’s games at the Arena

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

(12) Grand Canyon vs. (4) Alabama

Sports > WSU basketball

Difference makers: Tamin Lipsey comes up big in second half during Iowa State’s win over WSU

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

JAYLEN WELLS

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Gonzaga notebook: Point guard Ryan Nembhard enjoys record-setting performance

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

It didn’t take Ryan Nembhard long to join Gonzaga’s fraternity of standout point guards, which includes older brother Andrew. Ryan Nembhard, in his first season as a Zag, dished out 12 assists in GU’s 86-65 victory over Kansas on Saturday, surpassing Josh Perkiins as No. 1 on the program’s single-season assists list.

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Recap and highlights: Iowa State outlasts Washington State 67-56, ends Cougar’s magical season in round of 32

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

The second-seeded Iowa State Cyclones proved too much for the seventh-seeded Cougars on Saturday, pulling away for a 67-56 win in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Blood in the water: Gonzaga throttles Kansas in second half to win 89-68, advance to ninth straight Sweet 16

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

SALT LAKE CITY – With strips of gauze wedged up both nostrils and red smears on the March Madness towel hanging over his neck, Anton Watson wrapped up a radio interview and acknowledged the group of Gonzaga fans that waited around after the final buzzer sounded at the Delta Center.

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Difference makers: Ben Gregg comes up with timely plays in Gonzaga’s win over Kansas

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

BEN GREGG

Sports > EWU basketball

Difference makers: Eastern Washington can’t find way to stop OSU’s Raegan Beers

UPDATED: Fri., March 22, 2024

RAEGAN BEERS

Sports > EWU basketball

‘What a journey its been’: Eastern Washington women’s historic season ends with 73-51 first-round loss to Oregon State

UPDATED: Tue., April 2, 2024

The third-seeded Oregon State Beavers regrouped in the second quarter and ran away with a 73-51 win over the No. 14 seed Eagles on Friday at Gill Coliseum.

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Led by Hall of Fame coaches, Gonzaga and Kansas took unique paths to second-round NCAA tournament matchup

UPDATED: Fri., March 22, 2024

SALT LAKE CITY – Wearing Hawaiian shirts and kukui nut necklaces, Mark Few and Bill Self shared the same podium in Honolulu four months ago, acknowledging they were prepared to learn plenty about their respective teams, for better or worse, over the next 72 hours at the Maui Invitational.

Sports > NCAA basketball

No. 13 seed Yale stuns Auburn 78-76 in epic NCAA Tournament game at the Arena

UPDATED: Fri., March 22, 2024

The NCAA Tournament has three more weekends to run, but it will be hard to top Friday’s epic encounter between Yale and Auburn at the Arena.

Vince Grippi: What’s the key to the Truong sisters’ success at Gonzaga? Loving the moment.

Next up for Gonzaga: Purdue, Zach Edey roll past Utah State and into the Sweet 16

Gonzaga-Kansas series remains on hold in complex college landscape

Gonzaga rewind: Slowing Hunter Dickinson key to stopping Jayhawks in second half of Bulldogs’ rout of Kansas

Vince Grippi: Defensive switch, sellout crowd help Zags change tide against UC Irvine

Difference makers: Yvonne Ejim powers Gonzaga past UC Irvine

Dave Boling: Washington State waited a long time for this NCAA Tournament. The Cougs will be back again soon.

Washington State forward Jaylen Wells broke out this season. Where does he go from here?

‘We proved that we belong’: Washington State keeps head high after second-round loss to Iowa State

Gonzaga women start slow, storm past UC Irvine 75-56 in first round of NCAA Tournament

NCAA Tournament in Spokane: Previewing Sunday’s games at the Arena

Difference makers: Tamin Lipsey comes up big in second half during Iowa State’s win over WSU

Gonzaga notebook: Point guard Ryan Nembhard enjoys record-setting performance

Recap and highlights: Iowa State outlasts Washington State 67-56, ends Cougar’s magical season in round of 32

Blood in the water: Gonzaga throttles Kansas in second half to win 89-68, advance to ninth straight Sweet 16

Difference makers: Ben Gregg comes up with timely plays in Gonzaga’s win over Kansas

Difference makers: Eastern Washington can’t find way to stop OSU’s Raegan Beers

‘What a journey its been’: Eastern Washington women’s historic season ends with 73-51 first-round loss to Oregon State

Led by Hall of Fame coaches, Gonzaga and Kansas took unique paths to second-round NCAA tournament matchup

No. 13 seed Yale stuns Auburn 78-76 in epic NCAA Tournament game at the Arena

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