Although, Jeremy Pargo looked a little sleep deprived as he made that silly foul towards the end of regulation, fouling one of Connecticut's three-point shooters that nearly allowed the Huskies to tie the game. But in the end, Gonzaga overcame a highly motivated Huskies team to win its fourth game in a five-game road stretch that took the team from Alaska to Boston.No. 19 Gonzaga has had some pretty impressive wins over the years, but you would be hard pressed to find a win that was bigger than this 85-82 win over U Conn.
Gonzaga has beaten better teams, certainly, but there was something about this win. Coach Mark Few said that his team spent maybe 48 hours in Spokane, Wash. Then they had to play in a hostile gym at St. Joseph's and then go up to Boston to play a Connecticut team that desperately needed this win to be viable in the national basketball scene. The Bulldogs looked like they might be blown out early as you could clearly see that Jim Calhoun had his team ready to play. But Gonzaga kept chipping away, finally taking the lead on the final play of the first half. There was a sense watching in the second-half that no matter what U Conn threw at Gonzaga, the Bulldogs were going to come away with the win.
This certainly has a chance to be one of the best Gonzaga teams in recent history. Even better than the Adam Morrison team that lost to UCLA. Once Josh Heytvelt gets healthy, this should be a very good team.
