STANFORD, Calif. – It took awhile, but coach Lisa Fortier and two of her players eventually managed to find some perspective late Friday night after one of the most disappointing losses of her nine seasons in charge at Gonzaga.
STANFORD, Calif. – It took awhile, but coach Lisa Fortier and two of her players eventually managed to find some perspective late Friday night after one of the most disappointing losses of her nine seasons in charge at Gonzaga.
For much of the first half, the gap between ninth-seeded Gonzaga and eighth-seeded Mississippi seemed even thinner than one line on the bracket. By the time the teams headed to the locker room, it was an unbridgeable chasm.
STANFORD, Calif. – Don’t get her wrong: Gonzaga coach Lisa Fortier is grateful that she can field a healthy team going into the Zags’ first-round NCAA Tournament game Friday against Ole Miss.
STANFORD, Calif. – The bar is set rather high at Gonzaga, where the women have dominated the West Coast Conference and have annual expectations of making a run to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament.
When the Gonzaga women’s basketball season began, Calli Stokes and Payton Muma were coming off redshirt seasons and just hoping to get some court time.