Baylor came out on fire and punched the Zags in the mouth and Gonzaga was down 19 before they responded with some minor runs.....At one point Baylor was 9 of 15 from the 3 and Gonzaga was 1 of 6. Baylor got 30 off 3 pointers and Gonzaga got 9. Hard to overcome that no matter how good you are...Baylor was just more physical and had a team full of players that looked like football TE's. Every time Gonzaga made a run Baylor countered it.....Zags cut it to 9 in the 2nd half and within a blink of a eye Baylor had it back up to 16...
Gonzaga is a elite program and they have NBA players on their roster....I don't buy they don't win it all because they play in a weak conference....they play the games they have to play in the conference they compete in and to their credit they play as good of a OOC as anybody in the country most every year and they win most of those games....This year they played Kansas...West Virginia...Virginia....Auburn and they were to play Baylor that was cancelled due to Covid and also was to play us (UT) which was cancelled due to Covid.
I would put more stock in their weak conference if they were put out of the NCAA tournament the first game or first weekend most of the time (like us
) but that's far from the case.
Over the last 7 years: What UT fan wouldn't want these results?
21 - NC game
20 - 1 seed -no tourney -
19 - elite 8
18 - sweet 16
17 - NC game
16 - sweet 16
15 - elite 8
I've heard it said that Gonzaga can't win it all because they aren't tested in their conference.....Well what about these SEC teams that are tested based on people saying how tough the SEC conference is and can't win it all or some that can't even get close..... Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Alabama, A&M, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, LSU, and Auburn.....Most of these SEC teams would trade with the success Gonzaga has sustained in a heartbeat.