It took 3½ quarters Saturday afternoon before the Gonzaga women’s basketball team finally found its rhythm. And for those 3½ quarters, the Loyola Marymount Lions didn’t look like a winless West Coast Conference team.
When Bree Salenbien tore her anterior cruciate ligament for the third time nearly a year ago, she said in a statement she needed time to decide what her future would hold.
To hear the coaches talk about it, the Gonzaga and Washington State women’s basketball teams have a rivalry and they’ve been in the same conference just a few weeks.
PULLMAN – It always meant something since they’re separated by 75 miles – for pride and regional bragging rights at the very least – but the Gonzaga/Washington State women’s basketball games are now more consequential.
The Gonzaga women’s basketball team was on the brink of an all-out collapse - similar to the two overtime setbacks where it coughed up double-digit leads this season.