Father Pat Conroy helps preside over mass at the Sheridan Grand in Phoenix, Arizona. The Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives is a Gonzaga graduate and in Phoenix to cheer on the men's basketball team at the Final Four and National Championship.
It was the mid-70s, the team was a perennial .500, tickets were free, seats were aplenty and lines were nonexistent. He recalls one specific game, a showdown between a top-bill San Francisco team with eventual NBA players Bill Cartwright and Quintin Dailey, where GU upset the Dons in the (then) Spokane Coliseum.