I’ll be honest: I wrote a game story in the third quarter talking about how the seniors on this Gonzaga roster may never want to come back to Las Vegas again after what they’ve been through the last three years. Yvonne Ejim, Eliza Hollinsgworth, and Jill Townsend made me delete the entire thing.
After sitting the majority of the game with the stomach flu and scoring zero points, Jill Townsend entered the game with 0.6 seconds left and Gonzaga down by a point. She picked the perfect time to score.
In one of the grittiest games in Gonzaga history, they exorcised so many Las Vegas demons and won their first West Coast Conference Tournament championship since 2018.