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Enjoy from my personal collection of NCAA Tournament games. Perhaps I have been a bit too negative on the 2000 NCAA Tournament, as this Gonzaga-St. John's game was a classic, with prime Gus Johnson doing a great job on the call. After being down following Arizona's loss to Wisconsin in the prior set of games, Gonzaga and St. John's provided a compelling game that took my mind off of what happened to the Wildcats. Just like the second round of the 1999 NCAA Tournament, #10 Gonzaga proved itself worthy against a #2 seed, taking care of St. John's as the Bulldogs had done against Stanford the year before. After defeating the Johnnies, Gonzaga was certainly going to the Final Four, at least in my mind, with Purdue, Wisconsin and LSU left in the region. That would not be the case though for the Bulldogs, which forever changed as a program these two tournaments thanks to the play of Matt Santangelo, Richie Frahm, Casey Calvary and many others. To this day, these 1999 and 2000 squads are my favorite Gonzaga teams of all time, a testament to when the program was an upstart as opposed to a West Coast blue blood.
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