Blanchette: Staying on top isn’t easy

Semantics, folks, but this is the fourth time Gonzaga’s been the No. 1 team in college basketball. Not the second.

There were actually three glorious weeks when the Bulldogs were No. 1 back in 2013 – each a different vote, each week requiring survival and victory first to get there and then to stay there.

And as we’re always told, the staying is the hard part.

Which it was.

Because then it was over – the first-weekend loss in the NCAA Tournament to the Wichita State Shockers, who wouldn’t stop shocking until they reached the Final Four.

So go ahead and party this week like it’s 2013. Or harder. Because these things were meant to be temporary.

As this year’s Bulldogs began pointing out back when the ascension to No. 1 was still presumed and not fact, the polls of Jan. 30 are about as weighty as a 2-0 lead from a layup off the opening tip/ John Blanchette , SR. More here.