Senior manager Jacob Salazar smiles after Gonzaga advances to the Final Four. Salazar is one of three managers that traveled with the team to Phoenix.
That’s because the reporter isn’t actually talking to Rem Bakamus, he’s talking to Kurt Bambauer, one of Gonzaga’s managers.
Bambauer is confused, but he is also polite, so he keeps answering the reporter’s questions, until it becomes clear the man has mixed him up with Bakamus.
“After like four questions I thought ‘I think he thinks I’m a player,’ Bambauer said smiling. “And then he asked me about my experience as a walk on, and I was like ‘Oh no, I don’t play.