by Paul Casey Gotham Setting: The McCarthey Athletic Center on the campus of Gonzaga University will be hopping tonight as the #22 Gaels of St. Mary's (18-1 / 5-0) pay a visit for a West Coast Conference battle of Catholic schools with the #20 Bulldogs of Gonzaga (14-4 / 5-0). Plots: If nothing else the Bulddogs are battle-tested with pre-conference games against … [Read more...] about Tale of the Tape: St. Mary’s at Gonzaga
Gonzaga Bulldogs
Still life in Spokane
by Paul Casey Gotham The last 28 days have been something of a penance for Mark Few and his Gonzaga Bulldogs. The Bulldogs improved to 7-0 with a hard-fought 74-52 victory over Tony Bennett's defensive-minded Washington St. Cougars on December 10th. At that point the tiny Jesuit school in the Northwest found themselves amongst the nation's elite - North Carolina, … [Read more...] about Still life in Spokane
Why Gonzaga is important
This week’s Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today’s top five are identical: UNC, UConn, Pittsburgh, Gonzaga, and Oklahoma. Kinda rolls off the tongue doesn’t it? The Bulldogs of Gonzaga with a record of six wins and zero losses seem right at home in the top five. That hasn’t always been the case. Once was a time when the Zags were the annual March feel good story that the … [Read more...] about Why Gonzaga is important
When 50% or thereabouts will get the job done
Fifteen years in the classroom can make a guy crazy. All those numbers -1200 on the SATs, 4.0 GPA, yeah, yeah, yeah. 65% is passing. 70% is rather mediocre, but it is a C. 80% earns a B. 90%? Well that is an A. Somewhere we decided that 85% represents mastery. That point when a kid can take topic; turn it inside out and can explain to someone else how they … [Read more...] about When 50% or thereabouts will get the job done