Provo • Santa Clara University spent more than $4,000 on a full-page ad in The Spokesman-Review, Gonzaga’s hometown newspaper, last November that basically touted SCU’s new “Athletic Excellence Center.”
GAME ON, the ad says, and references GU coach Mark Few’s comments to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that “other programs [in the WCC] aren’t even trying.”
It comes as no surprise, then, that BYU (5-2, 13-9) players and coaches had nothing but praise for No. 4 Gonzaga (6-0, 19-2) on Wednesday afternoon as they prepared for the Zags’ annual visit to the Marriott Center, Thursday at 9 p.