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They have been conference regular season champions 28 times and conference tournament champions 21 times. They have also appeared in 26 NCAA basketball tournaments , playing in the Round of 64 in each appearance, reaching the Round of 32 a total of 22 times, the Sweet Sixteen 14 times, the Elite Eight six times, and the Final Four twice.
In 2008, the game broke the state attendance record for a regular season college basketball game, as a sold-out crowd of 16,763 watched the Bulldogs play Connecticut. [100] In the 2016–17 season, Gonzaga failed to schedule the Battle in Seattle, ending an annual tradition of participating in the event every December for 13 consecutive years.
2 2011–12 season. 3 2012–13 season. ... These are the recent results of the College Basketball on CBS games. ... 4:00–6:00 Gonzaga: 89 @ #17 Kentucky 85
Packer also played a key role in helping CBS put together its schedule. In the 1981–82 season, CBS did, however, happen to obtain contracts with the Metro and Missouri Valley Conferences. During the 1982 NCAA tournament, CBS introduced 11:30 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone) games on Thursday and Friday nights for the first two weekends.
Until the championship game, Gonzaga was the only NCAA basketball team, either men's or women's, to remain undefeated in every game (within and outside its conference) during the 2020–21 season. During the championship game, Baylor University became the season champions after defeating Gonzaga 86–70. [8]
Official NCAA basketball records date only to the 1937–38 season, the first of what it calls the "modern era" of men's basketball, following the abolition of the center jump after each made basket. Official statistical rankings in scoring began in 1947–48. Individual assists and rebounds were first recorded in the 1950–51 season.
Before the 2012–13 season, the Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team lost two seniors from the previous year to graduation: starter Robert Sacre and transfer Marquise Carter. [8] Sacre was the team's third-highest scorer, with an average of 11.6 points per game, and averages of 6.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. [9]
Without a conference tournament, Gonzaga's season was not quite enough to qualify for the 53-team NCAA tournament, the WCAC berth went to champion San Diego (9–3). [5] In earlier non-conference games, Gonzaga met Inland Empire rival Washington State of the Pac-10 at the Spokane Coliseum in December and the Cougars made a late basket and won ...