[11] Gonzaga (28-7) vs. [10] Syracuse (21-13)
NCAA TOURNAMENT - REGIONAL SEMIFINAL
Game 37 | March 25 | approx. 6:40 p.m. PT/8:40 p.m. CT | United Center | Chicago, Ill.
SERIES: Syracuse leads, 1-0
LAST MEETING: 2010 - Gonzaga lost 87-65 in Buffalo, N.Y. (NCAA Second Round)
TELEVISION: CBS (Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller, Dan Bonner, Lewis Johnson)
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NOTES: Gonzaga - Syracuse

NCAA TOURNAMENT TEAM NOTES
- Last time out: GU earned a spot in its seventh Sweet 16 with an 82-59 rout of third-seeded Utah, the third-largest margin of victory by a team seeded 11th or lower. It also marks Gonzaga's NCAA record fourth Sweet 16 as a double-digit seed.
- 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 now 15-4 all-time in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament and 7-8 all-time in the second round.
- Gonzaga is one of only two teams to win its opening-round NCAA Tournament game each of the last eight seasons - Kansas is the other.
- Gonzaga is now 24-18 all-time in 19 NCAA Tournament appearances with seven trips to the Sweet 16 and two trips to the Elite Eight.
- GU is 21-16 in the NCAA Tournament under head coach Mark Few with a berth in all 17 seasons of Few's head coaching career.
- Gonzaga has been a double-digit seed six previous times (#10 three times, #11 once, #12 once, #14 once).
- Gonzaga is now 10-6 all-time as a double-digit seed with a 5-2 record in its first round game as a double-digit seed.
- Gonzaga is now 3-1 all-time in the NCAA Tournament in Denver, Colo., but 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 466-110, the NCAA current active leader in winning percentage at .809.
- 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 17.5 points and 11.7 rebounds while shooting .609 from the floor, which ranks him No. 17 in the nation in field goal percentage and No. 7 in the nation in rebounds per game. His 409 rebounds is the fifth-best total in the NCAA.
- Sabonis posted his league-leading 22nd double-double of the season in the NCAA Second Round win over Utah with 19 points and 10 rebounds, and has 16 in the past 21 games. He's missed a double-double by either one point or one rebound three other times this year.
- Kyle Wiltjer leads the team with 20.4 points per game (No. 23 in NCAA), has had 20-plus 19 times and double figures in 32 of 35 games.
- Over the last five games, four Gonzaga players are averaging double figures: Kyle Wiltjer 17.8, Domantas Sabonis 19.4, Eric McClellan 18.4, and Josh Perkins 11.8. With Silas Melson's 6.8 and Kyle Dranginis' 7.4 ppg in those five games thrown in, the top six scorers are providing 98 percent of the scoring, but that group is also playing 94 percent of the minutes.
- Eric McClellan was named WCC Defensive Player of the Year, while Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis earned All-WCC First Team honors.

ABOUT SYRACUSE
- Head coach Jim Boeheim is in his 40th season as the head coach at Syracuse and has an 882-341 (.721).
- Syracuse features four players that average double figures in scoring, led by Michael Gbinije's 17.8 points per game.
- Malachi Richardson averages 13.1 ppg, Trevor Cooney is at 12.8 ppg and Tyler Lydon is at 10.4 ppg as the sixth man.
- Each of the top four scorers has shot at least 100 threes on the year and made at least 44. Gbinije has made a team-high 90 threes.
- Syracuse has five players that average more than 30.0 minutes player per game.

BACK-TO-BACK SWEET 16s
Gonzaga is one of just six teams to return to the Sweet 16 from last season. The Zags join a list that includes Duke, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. It is Gonzaga's seventh Sweet 16 since 1999.

CURRENT NCAA TOURNAMENT RANKS (through two games)
- Ranked fourth in scoring defense at 55.5 points per game allowed
- Ranked in a tied for third in rebound margin at +12.0
- Ranked 12th in field goal percentage at .496
- Ranked eighth in field goal percentage defense at .368
- Ranked 12th in three-point field goal percentage at .417
- Ranked sixth in defensive rebounding at 31.0 per game
- Domantas Sabonis is third among players that played two games at 13.0 rebounds per game
- Domantas Sabonis is first among players that played two games at 10.0 defensive rebounds per game

McCLELLAN EMERGING AS GO-TO OFFENSIVE WEAPON
After posting one 20-point game in the first 30 games of the season, senior guard Eric McClellan has scored at least 20 points three times in the last five games, including a 22-point outburst against Utah in the NCAA Tournament Second Round. During those five games, he is averaging 18.4 points and knocking down 56 percent of his field goal attempts, including a 9-for-16 mark from three (.563) and a 23-for-24 (.958) mark from the charity stripe.

Domantas Sabonis: REBOUNDING MACHINE
Sophomore forward Domantas Sabonis pulled down 16 rebounds in Gonzaga's NCAA First Round win over Seton Hall, which marked a GU record for an NCAA game, passing Casey Calvary's 15 rebounds in 2001 against Virginia. Here's more rebounding notes on Sabonis:
- Ranks No. 7 in the nation in rebounding at 11.7 per game
- Ranks No. 5 in the nation in defensive rebounds at 8.74 per game
- Ranks No. 6 in the nation in double-doubles with 22 on the season
- Had career-high 20 boards at Pacific, the first 20-rebound game for a GU player since Josh Heytvelt had 22 at Pepperdine in 2007
- Would become first double-digit rebounder at Gonzaga for a season since Paul Cathey's 11.5 per game during the 1977-78 season
- Has a team high 24 games with at least 10 rebounds,17 of which he's had at least 13 rebounds and nine of those with at least 15 rebounds

Domantas Sabonis SCORING AND SHOOTING NOTES
- Has had 31 games in double figures, which includes 12 games with 20-plus after scoring 21 points vs. Seton Hall in NCAA First Round
- Has had two games of 30-plus points: 36 vs. Tennessee in Battle in Seattle and 35 at San Francisco in OT victory
- Ranks No. 17 in the nation in field goal percentage at .609
- Has shot .650 or better on at least five field goal attempts 20 times, including a perfect 6-for-6 vs. BYU in Las Vegas and 12-for-13 vs. NAU

DEFENSE CARRYING THE LOAD
Since giving up 94 points in an overtime win at San Francisco-- the first 90-plus-point opponent for Gonzaga since a 96-91 OT loss at USF in 2011 -- GU opponents have averaged just 65.1 points per game over the last 20 games. That includes just four opponents reaching the 70 mark, while three other opponents were held to 52 or less, including Seton Hall (52) on Thursday, USF at home (48) and San Diego at home (52). Over the 19-game span, Gonzaga has held opponents to just .401 percent shooting overall and just 29.3 percent from behind the arc. In two NCAA Tournament games, GU opponents are averaging 55.5 points and shooting just 36.8 percent from the field.