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Chaplain of House of Representatives makes trip to Final Four

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.

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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.