GU vs San Francisco (Home edition) - Predictions/Thoughts/What you do hope to see

[LongIslandZagFan]

OK... down to conference play! Zags are facing an up and down Dons team. With bad losses like UMass Lowell and solid wins like UVa. Zags typically play USF well at home.

What are you hoping to see on Saturday? Expecting to see? Thoughts? Predictions?

Have at it boys and girls!!!

[gonstu]

I think their team and coach hate the zags. I expect USF will play one of their best games if the season.

[TexasZagFan]

I think their team and coach hate the zags. I expect USF will play one of their best games if the season.

USF is usually a thorn in our side. Let's face it, everyone's going to have the Zags circled on their schedule.

Zags 97
Dons 80

[Zags11]

Zags 94
Usf 78

[SorenTodd45]

USF is usually a thorn in our side. Let's face it, everyone's going to have the Zags circled on their schedule.

And that's the way it should be. Look at what happened last night in Tulsa. But we will overcome, we are better than the Dons. We will zig, we will zag, and we will conquer.

[Mr Vulture]

Zags - 91
Dons - 73


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[zag67]

Gu 98-67

[RenoZag]

Gonzaga 80
San Francisco 73

USF will play the same low-possession game style they did vs. GU last year and this year vs. Virginia.

[SorenTodd45]

From my other sports board: San Francisco-Gonzaga: Jon Sciambi, Fran Fraschilla. I don't know much about these announcers, but at least they should stay focused (cough, cough, Heister).

[TacomaZAG]

Not worried about this one, ZAGS by 15+

Want to see Jalen back on the floor for the opening tip. But sit him if he's not 100%, the guys have bigger fish to fry later in the year.

Always concerned about the return game at War Memorial, but that's a conversation for another day

Go ZAGS

[Kiddwell]

Victors Square Off, a rhymed couplet
<ahem>
Though both beat the Cavs,
Zags win both the halves.
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GU - 99
USF - 68





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[Martin Centre Mad Man]

USF is rated in the Top 100 on KenPom, NET, and RPI, but are not ranked in the Top 70 on any of those metrics. They are well-coached and will have scouted the Zags quite well. They will put up a fight.

It won’t be enough. Zags win 92-81.

[HenneZag]

88-79 ZAGS

SF always seems to have people shoot out of their minds. Half court eyes closed shots that will go in but than shoot 3-21 from 3 the following game vs nobody.

[SLOZag]

From my other sports board: San Francisco-Gonzaga: Jon Sciambi, Fran Fraschilla. I don't know much about these announcers, but at least they should stay focused (cough, cough, Heister).

Do you have any idea which ESPN channel will carry the broadcast of this game (i.e., ESPN2)?

[MickMick]

Bottom line.....need to run those boys off the three point line. A skip pass away from looking foolish.

The backcourt needs to live up to the press clippings in this one.


15-20 points from transition basketball should win this for GU and if Tony Bennett couldn't slow GU down, I don't see the Dons doing it either. Run, Run, run. Zags by 15 in a tougher than expected matchup. 89-74

[SorenTodd45]

Do you have any idea which ESPN channel will carry the broadcast of this game (i.e., ESPN2)?

Still waiting on confirmation, it will be either the Deuce or the "U". I can't imagine, though, the Zags ending up on ESPNU.

[Ballguy]

I remember their guard Frankie Ferrari, he was a pretty good player.

[ZagsGoZags]

And that's the way it should be. Look at what happened last night in Tulsa. But we will overcome, we are better than the Dons. We will zig, we will zag, and we will conquer.

Hi Soren,
what happened in Tulsa last night?

If I remember correctly weren't the Dons up on us at halftime 2 of the 3 times we played them last year?
I think the Dons used to hate us, their coach sometimes would refer to few as that coach up there, but I don't think
that hatred has been the case since they changed coaches.
GU 89
Dons 71

[TexasZagFan]

Hi Soren,
what happened in Tulsa last night?

If I remember correctly weren't the Dons up on us at halftime 2 of the 3 times we played them last year?
I think the Dons used to hate us, their coach sometimes would refer to few as that coach up there, but I don't think
that hatred has been the case since they changed coaches.
GU 89
Dons 71

#5 Houston was taken down in Tulsa by one. A Tulsa player was fouled with 0.1 seconds on the clock, and hit both free throws. From what little I saw, Houston trailed during the second half by single digits, but came back in the last couple of minutes.

Crazy things can happen on the road.

[MickMick]

#5 Houston was taken down in Tulsa by one. A Tulsa player was fouled with 0.1 seconds on the clock, and hit both free throws. From what little I saw, Houston trailed during the second half by single digits, but came back in the last couple of minutes.

Crazy things can happen on the road.

Houston is back on track if they beat SMU, a better team than Tulsa in my opinion.

[zagsfanforlife]

Houston is back on track if they beat SMU, a better team than Tulsa in my opinion.

The reality is that this year, moreso than any I can remember since that Kentucky year about 5 or 6 years back, has 2 teams that are far ahead of the rest-- Baylor and Gonzaga. Outside of those two, any team can lose at any time to anyone. Houston losing last night did not shock me. They were #5 not because of how dominant they were, but because there just arent too many GREAT teams. There is a reason the Zags are 3-1 favorites to win it all this year. Those odds you dont see every year.

[BayAreaZagFan]

I expect to see the first of many conference wins.

Zags - 95
San Francisco University - 72

[gonzagafan62]

Gonzaga 99
USF 76

[willandi]

95-65 Zags

[White lightning]

Still waiting on confirmation, it will be either the Deuce or the "U". I can't imagine, though, the Zags ending up on ESPNU.

Espn2 has a game schedule to play at 7PM Saturday with no teams named yet. I'm praying it's Gonzaga.

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