March 13, 2016 Selection Show Notes (pdf)
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11-seed Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. 6-seed Seton Hall Pirates
Game 35 | March 17 | 6:57 pm. PT | Pepsi Center | Denver, Colo.
SERIES: Seton Hall leads, 1-0
LAST MEETING: 1954 - Seton Hall won 92-70 in South Orange, N.J.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT NOTES
- Last time out: GU won its fourth straight WCC Tournament title with an 85-75 win over Saint Mary's at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
- Gonzaga is making its 18th consecutive NCAA Tournament Appearance and 19th overall.
- The 18 straight berths to the NCAA Tournament is the fourth-longest current streak in the nation (Kansas, Duke, Michigan State).
- Gonzaga is 22-18 all-time in 18 previous NCAA Tournament appearances with six trips to the Sweet 16 and two trips to the Elite Eight.
- GU is 19-16 in the NCAA Tournament under head coach Mark Few with a berth in all 16 previous seasons of Few's head coaching career. - Gonzaga is one of only two teams to win its opening-round NCAA Tournament game each of the last seven seasons - Kansas is the other.
- Gonzaga has been a double-digit seed six previous times (#10 three times, #11 once, #12 once, #14 once).
- Gonzaga is 8-6 all-time as a double-digit seed with a 4-2 record in its first round game as a double-digit seed.
- Gonzaga is 1-1 all-time in the NCAA Tournament in Denver, Colo., defeating [6] St. John's as an 11-seed before falling to [3] BYU in 2011.
- Gonzaga has never played an NCAA Tournament game in Chicago, Ill.
- Last season, [2] Gonzaga defeated [15] North Dakota State and [7] Iowa in Seattle, Wash., and then [11] UCLA in Houston, Texas, to advance to the Elite Eight where they fell to eventual national champion [1] Duke.
ABOUT GONZAGA
- Head coach Mark Few enters the game with a career record of 464-110, the NCAA current active leader in winning percentage at .808. - Gonzaga won its 15th WCC regular season title and 13th WCC tournament title under Mark Few. - Gonzaga appeared in the WCC Tournament title game for the 19th straight year, winning for the fourth straight year.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging a double-double at 17.4 points and 11.6 rebounds while shooting .617 from the floor, which ranks him No. 14 in the nation in field goal percentage and No. 8 in the nation in rebounds per game. His 383 rebounds is the fifth-highest NCAA total. - Sabonis posted his league-leading 20th double-double of the season in the WCC semifinal vs. BYU with 15 points and 14 rebounds and has 14 in the past 19 games. He's missed a double-double by either one point or one rebound three other times this season.
- Kyle Wiltjer led the WCC in scoring at 20.7 points per game (No. 20 in the NCAA), and has had 20-plus 19 times this season along with double figures in 30 of 33 games.