SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Przemek Karnowski might as well have been on an island.
With a little under five minutes left in the first half of Thursday's Sweet 16 matchup against West Virginia, the Gonzaga big man hauled in a rebound on his own end and duly initiated the protocol of the outlet pass. Few things on a basketball court are this mundane. Karnowski, a senior center, has literally thousands of outlets under his belt; it might be the easiest, least stressful part of his job.
On this outlet pass, though, Karnowski didn't find a guard helpfully ready to move up the floor.