Gonzaga continues to be looking for its first nationwide title in males’s basketball.
The Bulldogs, the No. 1 general seed within the N.C.A.A. event, misplaced, 74-68, to No. 4-seeded Arkansas on Thursday in San Francisco within the spherical of 16.
A Jesuit college in Spokane, Wash., Gonzaga has entrenched itself as a basketball energy regardless of enjoying exterior the Energy 5 within the West Coast Convention. Since Coach Mark Few took over this system in 1999, the Bulldogs have gained at the least 20 video games every season. Solely a nationwide title has eluded them.
Gonzaga had been searching for a 3rd consecutive journey to the spherical of 8. As an alternative, the Zags skilled one more end in need of their objective.
They earned the No. 1 general seed in final 12 months’s event and took an undefeated file to the championship recreation, the place they misplaced to Baylor. They misplaced solely two video games within the 2019-20 season and appeared formidable coming into the postseason, however the pandemic pressured the nationwide event to be canceled.
