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S9 March 12, 2013 As I prepared for travel to Las Vegas for the WAC Tournament, I noticed that if I scheduled my flight a little earlier, I could make it to the Orleans in time for the WCC Championship final. Since BYU joined the WCC, the final has been moved from Sunday to Monday, making a quick turnaround for the ... [more]
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S9 January 22, 2013 There was a great deal of excitement this past summer around the Butler community when rumors started to fly that ESPN's College GameDay was considering a visit to Hinkle Fieldhouse for the upcoming basketball season. When it was confirmed that they'd be doing so for the Gonzaga game on January 19,... [more]
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S9 January 21, 2013 Here on this side of the Red Line there's not many chances to see one of the top 10 teams in the nation, much less in your home arena. Gonzaga comes to Portland every season and it's sold out every season, but this time the Bulldogs were ranked 8th in the polls. Now I'm one of those fans who thinks... [more]
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S8 April 2, 2012 Game #8-465: Gonzaga Bulldogs at Portland PilotsJanuary 26, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapSorry for the cliche to start, but a lot can change over the course of a year. Last year, I showed up several hours before the Gonzaga game only to discover a senior had blown off his c... [more]
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S8 February 12, 2012 Game #8-556: Saint Mary`s Gaels at Gonzaga BulldogsFebruary 9, 2012 11:00 pmMcCarthy Athletic CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe mood was electric. The crowd was ready to jump out of their seats at even the slightest development, led by the large and vocal student section that occupied the lower half of t... [more]
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S8 January 27, 2012 Game #8-465: Gonzaga Bulldogs at Portland PilotsJanuary 26, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapLet's get some things out in the open now: I don't like Gonzaga. I've disliked them since 1994, the last time Portland beat them at home. That is, of course, well before they made deep NCAA runs,... [more]
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S8 January 21, 2012 Game #8-421: Gonzaga Bulldogs at Saint Mary`s GaelsJanuary 12, 2012 11:00 pmMcKeon PavilionBBState Stats/RecapI was there in 2005, when Saint Mary's finally beat Gonzaga to end what seemed like a lifetime of futility against the Zags. It was the Gaels' first win over a ranked team in years. The only... [more]
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S6 February 11, 2010
Last summer, a friend in the basketball world sent me a brochure about an organization that puts together popular pursuit challenges in major American cities. The way the game works is that you're locked in the trunk of a car, your hands bound with tape, then you're taken to a undetermined locatio... [more]
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S5 February 9, 2009 BATON ROUGE -- When the ax started falling in the SEC last month with midseason firings, the thought around here was that it was kinda cute. Four such severances in four years seemed like another indication that the pressures of BCS basketball were getting to be more in line with those of the pros, ... [more]
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S5 January 29, 2009 This is totally unprecedented. In nearly five years, there has never been more than one G!O!T!N! at a time. But tonight, there's no way to choose. Maybe you can pick between these supergood gems, but we can't.
Nevada at Utah State (Western Athletic)
Dee Glen Smith Spectrum - Logan, UT
9:05 PM EST
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S5 December 17, 2008 CLINTON, S.C. -- What's the value of a score? The market has it much less than the 1/1000th of a cent that manufacturer's coupons are worth -- interested parties expect to get them for free, that a score should cost the same over a computer network as it does transmitted from mouth to ear.
Is "Tenne... [more]
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S4 February 18, 2008
Gonzaga at San Diego (West Coast)
Jenny Craig Pavilion - San Diego, CA
11:00 PM EST
For tonight's G!O!T!N!, we go all the way out west for an ESPN2 matchup between two teams separated by a half-game (and Saint Mary's) in the West Coast Conference. We could have easily chosen URI-Xavier (ho... [more]
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S4 February 4, 2008
Gonzaga at Saint Mary's (West Coast)
McKeon Pavilion - Moraga, CA
11:00 PM EST
We get a lot of questions as to why we actually mention Gonzaga by its actual school title now, as we got a full two years out of the "Unnamed Major Program From the Northwest" title and its associated UMPFN acr... [more]
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