Gonzaga’s undefeated record has a lot of people swooning but over at Slate, this guy suggests that this could become “the greatest team of all time” and that’s just too foolish not to challenge.
The first thing to say is that we mean no disrespect to the Zags. Mark Few has done something that only a Few could accomplish (sorry): build a tremendous program in what is, in basketball terms, a backwater.
Gonzaga is a relatively small Catholic school in Spokane, a town just about a half-hour west of the Iowa border. Gonzaga made the national radar when Spokane native John Stockton decided to stay home to play college ball and has been good ever since.