It’s not easy to bury a team as good as USC, let alone in a half, no matter how easy Gonzaga made it look. Somehow, coach Mark Few called it in advance.
While everyone was fixating on the top-seeded Bulldogs’ make-it-rain offense, one reporter took the opposite tack. He asked Few the day before their game against the high-flying Trojans whether his defense was getting lost in the shuffle.
He replied like he’d been waiting days for that question. “I think,” Few said, “we’ve had some excellent, I mean, off-the-chart performances, and some terrific halves.” Gonzaga’s defense dropped one of those like an anvil on No.
6 USC in Tuesday night’s Elite Eight contest. Michigan, the bracket’s other No. 1 seed in action, played decent defense against