It’s one thing to outscore the other side, rather the point of the mission, but it’s another to tack on a quality Gonzaga displayed Saturday to basketball-theatre patrons at the Utah Jazz’s Delta Center. The Bulldogs spent their gorgeous ransacking of Kansas presenting a level of beauty elevated enough that it might have made a witness drift to thoughts of the space in which sports intersects with art.
Their performance was downrightThe 89-68 hoop aria made them glow from the NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket on their way to the Midwest Region semifinal in Detroit. It placed them on familiar ground (and overheard same). It meant they gifted their coach, Mark Few, a ninth consecutive berth in the Sweet 16, an accomplishment up in the clouds for an event rich in the chaos.“So right now it just feels effortless,” said senior forward Anton Watson, with his 8 for 11, his 21 points, his six rebounds. “It feels like we’re playing with just motio