Early into the 2020–21 college basketball season, Travis Knight gathered the undefeated Gonzaga men’s basketball team together on a Monday. Knight is, by business card at least, the Zags' “assistant strength and conditioning coach.” But as he showed on this Monday, same as most Mondays, his job title is as understated as the basketball power that sprouted in Eastern Washington more than 20 years ago.
There were no coaches in this meeting, no administrators and no university staff— and the group was designed that way, to be small and exclusive and open to new ideas. That afternoon, Knight stood before the Bulldogs and a projector screen, upon which a YouTube video had been paused.