Gonzaga remains to be trying to find its first nationwide title in males’s basketball.
The Bulldogs, the No. 1 general seed within the N.C.A.A. match, 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 outdoors the Energy 5 within the West Coast Convention. Since Coach Mark Few took over this system in 1999, the Bulldogs have gained no less than 20 video games every season. Solely a nationwide title has eluded them.
Gonzaga had been looking for a 3rd consecutive journey to the spherical of 8. As a substitute, the Zags skilled yet one more end in need of their objective.
They earned the No. 1 general seed in final 12 months’s match and took an undefeated document to the championship sport, the place they misplaced to Baylor. They misplaced solely two video games within the 2019-20 season and regarded formidable getting into the postseason, however the pandemic compelled the nationwide match to be canceled.