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Gonzaga packs chip on shoulder for NCAA Tournament trip

UPDATED: Tue., March 18, 2025

The Gaels won close decisions in the first two matchups, prompting GU’s coaching staff to not only adjust the starting five – inserting Braden Huff for Ben Gregg – but push the players to summon every ounce of their competitive fire in Las Vegas.

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March Madness: Should you trust Arizona? The evidence points to a berth in the Sweet 16 for the frequent underachiever

UPDATED: Wed., March 19, 2025

This cannot be phrased delicately, so we won't bother with the attempt: Arizona has a brutally difficult path to the Final Four. Even the Sweet 16 seems daunting for the Wildcats, thanks to the presence of an old frenemy.

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Gonzaga’s Khalif Battle, Michael Ajayi put on dancing shoes for first time

UPDATED: Mon., March 17, 2025

Ajayi and Battle will achieve a career milestone when they suit up in their first NCAA Tournament game Thursday against Georgia in Wichita. Freshman center Ismaila Diagne is also a newcomer to March Madness.

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Gonzaga returns to the AP rankings at No. 24

UPDATED: Mon., March 17, 2025

Gonzaga’s run to the West Coast Conference Tournament championship, including a title-game win over Saint Mary’s, vaulted the Zags back into the AP Top 25 for the first time since mid-January.

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Spokane anticipates star-studded field as host site for women’s NCAA Tournament regionals

UPDATED: Sun., March 16, 2025

It’s not madness to say that Spokane is about to hold one of the biggest sports events in its history.

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Selection Sunday winners and losers: SEC, Big Ten dominate at-large bids as UNC controversy reveals committee flaw

UPDATED: Sun., March 16, 2025

The NCAA Tournament selection committee tried to distract us by offering front-row seats to its theatre of the absurd. And the ploy almost worked.

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Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket: UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, USC land No. 1 seeds

UPDATED: Sun., March 16, 2025

Entering Sunday’s women’s NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, there was a looming question about who would be the field’s top seed. In a season full of parity, SEC tournament champion South Carolina and Big Ten tournament champion UCLA both had strong cases.

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Kansas bound: Gonzaga players have varying memories of prior trips to site of NCAA opener

UPDATED: Sun., March 16, 2025

Members of Gonzaga’s backcourt had mixed results during prior trips to Wichita, Kansas, the site of the team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game on Thursday against No. 9 Georgia.

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Dave Boling: Underseeded Gonzaga dealt tough path in NCAAs, but Zags are used to defying the odds

UPDATED: Sun., March 16, 2025

Warning, I’m going to continue my argument against the relevance of analytics in the assessment and prediction of athletic competitions.

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The NCAA Tournament runs through the SEC (and Cooper Flagg)

UPDATED: Sun., March 16, 2025

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On Saturday and Sunday, a Final Four happened here. Not Final Four. That’s slotted for three weeks from now in a city a thousand miles southwest. But you might’ve been forgiven for believing it was the real thing: a quartet of men’s college basketball teams, all among the country’s top six programs by almost every measure, all with legitimate aspirations for a national championship, converging in one spot to play a couple games.

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Gonzaga packs chip on shoulder for NCAA Tournament trip

March Madness: Should you trust Arizona? The evidence points to a berth in the Sweet 16 for the frequent underachiever

Gonzaga’s Khalif Battle, Michael Ajayi put on dancing shoes for first time

Gonzaga returns to the AP rankings at No. 24

Spokane anticipates star-studded field as host site for women’s NCAA Tournament regionals

Selection Sunday winners and losers: SEC, Big Ten dominate at-large bids as UNC controversy reveals committee flaw

Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket: UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, USC land No. 1 seeds

Kansas bound: Gonzaga players have varying memories of prior trips to site of NCAA opener

Dave Boling: Underseeded Gonzaga dealt tough path in NCAAs, but Zags are used to defying the odds

The NCAA Tournament runs through the SEC (and Cooper Flagg)

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