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Glory hounds : how a small northwest school reshaped college basketball, and itself /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: USA : Bud Withers, 2016Description: 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780692776070
  • 0692776079
Other title:
  • Gloryhounds [Portion of title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.323 23
Contents:
In the beginning, or thereabouts -- Vision and a venue -- Loyalist -- Tommy: a hoops opera -- Other zags -- Colossal Courtney -- Long season -- Fifth Beatle -- Josh Heytvelt: The abyss and the atonement -- Great divide -- Postcards from faraway courts: Dan Dickau, Matt Santangelo, Casey Calvary, Ronny Turiaf, Mike Hart, Richie Frahm, Cory Violette, Derek Raivio, Blake Stepp, Erroll Knight, Demetri Goodson -- Strike up Alice Cooper -- Eighteen questions.
Summary: Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won games in the NCAA tournament of 1999, going all the way to the Elite Eight. Then they validated their arrival with Sweet 16 appearances the next two years. Unlike other unheralded programs that have emerged to make national headlines, the Zags didn't go away. They have stacked solid season upon solid season and as they enter 2016-17, they boast an 18-year streak of playing in the NCAA tournament -- a run of success that includes eight straight years of March Madness victories. A few years after the men's program took off, the Gonzaga women also reached unprecedented heights -- partly with the help of a fan base that couldn't get tickets to the men's games, but pushed the women to a top-15 national ranking in attendance. "Glory Hounds" is the story of how it all came together at Gonzaga for both men and women, how it changed the school, and how -- in a turbulent time of here-and-gone players in college basketball -- it continues.
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Standard Loan Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Nonfiction Coeur d'Alene Library Book 796.323 WITHERS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 50610020829193
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Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won games in the NCAA tournament of 1999, going all the way to the Elite Eight. Then they validated their arrival with Sweet 16 appearances the next two years.Unlike other unheralded programs that have emerged to make national headlines, the Zags didn't go away. They have stacked solid season upon solid season and as they enter 2016-17, they boast an 18-year streak of playing in the NCAA tournament -- a run of success that includes eight straight years of March Madness victories.A few years after the men's program took off, the Gonzaga women also reached unprecedented heights -- partly with the help of a fan base that couldn't get tickets to the men's games, but pushed the women to a top-15 national ranking in attendance."Glory Hounds" is the story of how it all came together at Gonzaga for both men and women, how it changed the school, and how -- in a turbulent time of here-and-gone players in college basketball -- it continues.

In the beginning, or thereabouts -- Vision and a venue -- Loyalist -- Tommy: a hoops opera -- Other zags -- Colossal Courtney -- Long season -- Fifth Beatle -- Josh Heytvelt: The abyss and the atonement -- Great divide -- Postcards from faraway courts: Dan Dickau, Matt Santangelo, Casey Calvary, Ronny Turiaf, Mike Hart, Richie Frahm, Cory Violette, Derek Raivio, Blake Stepp, Erroll Knight, Demetri Goodson -- Strike up Alice Cooper -- Eighteen questions.

Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won games in the NCAA tournament of 1999, going all the way to the Elite Eight. Then they validated their arrival with Sweet 16 appearances the next two years. Unlike other unheralded programs that have emerged to make national headlines, the Zags didn't go away. They have stacked solid season upon solid season and as they enter 2016-17, they boast an 18-year streak of playing in the NCAA tournament -- a run of success that includes eight straight years of March Madness victories. A few years after the men's program took off, the Gonzaga women also reached unprecedented heights -- partly with the help of a fan base that couldn't get tickets to the men's games, but pushed the women to a top-15 national ranking in attendance. "Glory Hounds" is the story of how it all came together at Gonzaga for both men and women, how it changed the school, and how -- in a turbulent time of here-and-gone players in college basketball -- it continues.

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