As soon as the ball was tipped, Seth Davis tweeted this:
Famously, he did the same thing at the tip-off of the Virginia-UMBC game in 2018, and the top-seeded Cavaliers became the first one seed to fall to a 16 seed. Today, Gonzaga went down 9-6 and Jalen Suggs picked up his second foul by the first media timeout. Maybe there was a small thought in the back of your head.
It went away pretty quick. Gonzaga got on track behind Anton Watson’s energy, pulled away in the first half, and finished off Norfolk State, 98-55, to reach the Round of 32 for the 12th straight season.