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What's in a name? Utah Jazz and former Utes announcer Dan Roberts can tell you

Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

Dan Roberts announces starting players before the NCAA basketball tournament second-round game between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the Baylor Bears at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 23, 2019.

SALT LAKE CITY — As introductions go, it was as polished as the Vivint Arena court Saturday at the NCAA Tournament. Public address announcer Dan Roberts flew through the names without a hitch.

Forty-plus years of practice, you get pretty good.

The one name he was sure to get correctly was Gonzaga’s. It wasn’t always that way.