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The No. 3 pit BYU Cougars (31-4) will fence against the No. 11 distribute Gonzaga Bulldogs (25-9), a capacity coming nemesis in the WCC, in Denver on Saturday. The Bulldogs course St. John’s 86-71 to improvement to the third reverberating against BYU. After being ranked No. 12 in the preseason Associated Press Poll, Gonzaga got off to a behindhand start, recording a 4-5 note in its cardinal nine games of the season.
Gonzaga was able to return from its premature struggles, but once again demolish into a downslide by losing three straight congress games to teams it dominated over the abide decade. Gonzaga coach Mark Few said there was a details in the time when he felt his team probably wouldn’t give rise to the NCAA Tournament. "We were feather of laboring around, not looking, playing or acting get pleasure from a NCAA Tournament team, the sympathy [of not getting in] creeps in," Few said. "But you just hoard plugging along.
" Gonzaga inferior center Robert Sacre said the uncompleted backing helped the Bulldogs figure badge throughout the season. "We had a test," Sacre said. "Coaches tested us all year by giving us a stony schedule. We just needed to altercate through it. It showed a lot of adversity.
I muse we handled it the rectitude way, maturely, and we just came out and played basketball." The Bulldogs were able to pull dow a demolish things together and culmination their aftermost 12 games with an 11-1 run, including an 11th consecutive WCC designation and another proffer to the NCAA Tournament. This is the 13th mask-like year Few has led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament.
Gonzaga reached the Sweet Sixteen four times under Few, who has earned eight WCC Coach of the Year awards. Gonzaga is led by superior safeguard Steven Gray, who averages 13.8 points and 3.9 assists per game. Sacre contributes 12.5 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.
Sophomore to the surface Elias Harris adds 12.1 points per trade for the Bulldogs. In their design against St. John’s, Gonzaga had three starters total in doubled figures.
Guard Marquise Carter led the Zags with 26 points while Gray and Harris added 16 and 15 points, respectively. The Zags tot 53 percent from the field, and 60 percent from the 3-point range. BYU is led by Mountain West Conference Player of the Year chief bodyguard Jimmer Fredette and MWC Defensive Player of the Year ranking bashibazouk Jackson Emery. Fredette and Emery provide 28.5 and 12.6 points per game, respectively, for the Cougars.
In the artifice against Wofford, four players scored in clone digits for the Cougars, including Fredette who scored 32 points and dished seven assists. BYU instructor Dave Rose said he expects Gonzaga to perform the ball to the lip more than Wofford did. The Bulldogs have five players that portion taller than 6 feet, 9 inches, including two seven-footers.
BYU only has three animated players taller than 6’9. Fredette said BYU just needs to procure a means to win, no event who the struggle is.
