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We might not get a better game than Memphis vs. Gonzaga for the rest of the men's tournament.

Holmgren didn’t have a great offensive game, which is a credit to Duren and the rest of the Tigers. Seeing the big boys inside go at it like this was such a treat. Things won’t get any easier for Gonzaga with No. 4 seed Arkansas waiting next round, and then perhaps a potential meeting with either Texas Tech or Duke in the Elite Eight. We’ll worry about that later. While Gonzaga lost three key starters from that team, they kept Timme, and that has been one of the biggest reasons they were so good again this year. Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway wanted a program-defining win of his own by knocking off the top team in the country and advancing to the Sweet 16 in his first ever NCAA tournament appearance. Watch his full scoring display in the second half below: Both Jalen Duren and DeAndre Williams sat long stretches of the game because Hardaway wanted to have them available for crunch time. It was the same situation for Gonzaga: Holmgren sat the last six minutes of the first half after picking up his second half. The game had the intensity and talent of a Final Four matchup with potential top-five NBA draft picks on both sides and a charged atmosphere inside Portland’s Moda Center. We may not get a better game all tournament long. Gonzaga-Memphis had more hype than any game in the round of 32. They were legitimately one of the best teams in America by the numbers since Jan. 20. Gonzaga’s thrilling 82-78 win put the Bulldogs into the second weekend for the seventh straight tournament. The West sure felt like the dreaded Region of Death.

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At that moment, Timme looked like Timme, and Gonzaga looked like Gonzaga. And, if this is truly, finally the year the Bulldogs win the title that has eluded them, this was as good a look as any heading into the second week. It’s still a team with an elite point guard (Nembhard), a soon-to-be NBA lottery pick (Holmgren), Final Four experience from last season and, of course, Timme, their superstar who shows up to games looking like he’s headed for pick-up hoops at the local Y. Gonzaga remains the favorite as it heads into its seventh-straight Sweet 16, having survived a game, Few said, that was “as physical as we’ve been in all year.” But somehow, he managed to hold onto the ball, steady his body just enough and lay it in while not facing the basket or stable in his positioning. Timme turned to catch the pass and his momentum almost took him over the baseline. “They went to the championship level,” Hardaway said afterward. He wanted to go out “guns blazing,” and not the finger gun variety he prefers for in-game celebrations. He muscled into the paint, spun, twisted and scooped in a lay-up with his left hand. Flash forward to Saturday evening at the Moda Center. It was halftime, and Gonzaga wasn’t just losing to Memphis. The Tigers had been more physical, dominated on the boards, and held the Bulldogs without a field goal for the final 4:12 of the first half. The two cornerstones of Few’s latest contender—“This is their team,” he has said—even turned in the highlight of a night with no shortage of how-did-that-happen-type of plays. Drew, the oldest of Megan and Matt’s three children, was at a nearby hotel, lounging with his Gonzaga teammates, preparing to play again and continue their latest run at an ever-elusive title. He thumped his chest, as if to announce that he and Gonzaga had awoken. No. 1 Baylor was trailing against North Carolina. It would later lose to the Tar Heels, and when the Timmes saw this, they didn’t say much.

Check out the top plays for Memphis Tigers vs. Gonzaga men's basketball in the NCAA Tournament second round on Saturday, March 19, 2022.

Gonzaga guard Andrew Nembhard drove for a layup with 12:26 left in the first half. Gonzaga it's the NCAA Tournament darling it was supposed to be Gonzaga forward Drew Timme threw a lob pass to center Chet Holmgren for a dunk with 5:15 left in the second half. Gonzaga guard Andrew Nembhard hit a 3-pointer at the top of the key with 4:36 left in the second half. Memphis Tigers center Malcolm Dandridge dunked on an assist from Landers Nolley II with 5:56 left in the first half. Minott's basket tied the game 13-13 with Gonzaga.

The Zags showed their grit by erasing a double digit halftime deficit led by Andrew Nembhard and Drew Timme.

Penny Hardaway’s team figured things out over the last two months, and in this game played like the team many envisioned when they opened the season ranked No. 12. The Zags looked like a completely different team in the second half. Timme did the heavy lifting on offense while Holmgren held things down the fort on the defensive end. Without Holmgren as a deterrent in the paint, Gonzaga’s defense lost its teeth and also lost a significant rebounding presence which played right into Memphis’s hands. Whatever was (actually, not the post-game cliffsnotes censored version) said during halftime is between Timme, the team, and God, but it did the trick. Gonzaga faced a halftime deficit in each of its three losses this season.

Drew Timme scored 14 of Gonzaga's 16 points in a second-half stretch where they cut a 12-point deficit down to two en route to an 82-78 victory over ...

"He made some tough shots, controlled the game, got our guys in foul trouble and the rest is history." They had to make shots and they had to get stops and they did both ways." Timme had a team-high 10 points in the first half of that game but shot 3-of-7 from the field and missed five of his nine free throw attempts. Facing a talented Memphis team that had won 13 of its previous 15 games after a 9-8 start, Gonzaga didn't have the same kind of margin for error this time. Overall, he scored 14 of the Zags' 16 points in a stretch when they cut the deficit down to two, making a 3-pointer and hitting from a variety of difficult angles. "I would like to stop doing that," he said.

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Memphis falls just short against Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament but not before showing the nation it had become the team it was always supposed to be.

An 8-0 run late in the first half, capped off by a Harris floater, and a late putback by Minott gave Memphis a 41-31 lead at the break. He hit four free throws in a row as the huge contingent of Gonzaga fans booed following a technical foul, steadying Memphis with senior Lomax appearing limited by the ankle injury he suffered in Thursday’s round of 64 win over Boise State. That duo was just 2 of 5 from the field for six combined points in the first half. He then gave Gonzaga the lead again, 58-57, with 10 minutes to go, as Memphis' Jalen Duren and DeAndre Williams sat on the bench saddled with four fouls. They had to be, because the Tigers were testing mighty Gonzaga like few can, and here was one more shot to get an upset of epic proportions. "We're back," he told the Memphis radio broadcasters immediately after the game ended.

Players on the Gonzaga men's basketball team ran down the hallways Thursday after the team's first round win holding up five fingers. Five fingers,

Especially as winners of seven of their last eight games, the Tigers have become a threat for the Sweet 16 versus the national champion hopefuls Zags. And to contest Andrew Nembhard bringing the ball up, senior guard Alex Lomax will be handling the rock for a majority of Memphis’ possessions. The 6-foot-11 big man from Pennsylvania is a scoring threat as well as defensive presence, scoring 12.1 point per game at 74.8% shooting at the rim and denying 2.1 blocks per game. Memphis’ front court duo are agile and quick on their feet, meaning that Drew Timme, who dropped a game-high 32 points against GSU, won’t be as effective at drawing fouls against them in the low post. Anyone who watched the Zags first performance out in the tournament against Georgia State saw how deflated their offensive attack looked in the first half. Injuries kept Memphis from locking in a consistent lineup in the beginning of the season, as players struggled to gel together and find cohesion.

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Memphis? And which side of the spread hits in over 70 percent of simulations? The model also says one side of the spread hits in over 70 percent of simulations. The Bulldogs lead the country in making 60.8 percent of 2-point attempts and Gonzaga ranks in the top 20 of the nation in 3-point accuracy at 37.8 percent. Gonzaga is underrated on defense, ranking in the top 10 of the country in adjusted efficiency and leading the nation in both overall shooting efficiency allowed and 2-point accuracy allowed. From there, Gonzaga excels in ball security, committing a turnover on only 15.7 percent of offensive possessions. The Tigers are also in the top 50 of the country in offense, including an offensive rebound rate (37.5 percent) that ranks in the top five nationally. Memphis puts pressure on opponents with a top-20 free-throw attempt rate in the nation, and the Tigers are also strongly above-average in assist rate. Gonzaga is the No. 1 offensive team in the nation from an efficiency standpoint, headlined by an effective field-goal percentage of 59.2 percent. Memphis is in the top five of the country in block rate at 16.5 percent, and the Tigers create a steal on 12.6 percent of defensive possessions. The Tigers are also facing a Gonzaga team that is below-average in turnover creation, forcing a giveaway on 16.7 percent and a steal on 8.9 percent of possessions. Now, the model has set its sights on Gonzaga vs. Memphis upended Boise State, improving to 14-2 in the last 16 games and 22-10 overall.

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However, the two teams have not played since the 2014-15 season, when a No. 3 Gonzaga defeated Memphis 82-64. Memphis is one of the few teams in the world the Zags do not have a winning record against. Memphis controlled the game and the tempo against No. 8 Boise State on Thursday.

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Gonzaga is the only team with both a top-10 offensive and defensive efficiency per Kenpom. Gonzaga has gone over in 2 straight and in 3 of its last 4 as well. Tipico has no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage. The Tigers have a competent defense, ranking 28th in adjusted defensive efficiency. It managed 93 points in its first-round showing and still shot under its average from deep. The Tigers defeated No. 5 Houston twice in the last few weeks of the season but did have their share of bad early season losses. The only possible way to play this is to bank on the upset. It also ranks 22nd in three-point shooting, where Memphis got some luck in its first-round matchup as Boise shot just 29% from deep. Gannett may earn revenue from Tipico for audience referrals to betting services. The No. 5 overall recruit, F Emoni Bates, made a quick return from injury, playing 3 minutes and scoring 3 points. Gonzaga, led by F Drew Timme and freshman phenom C Chet Holmgren, is 14-13-3 against the spread (ATS) this season. Gonzaga odds and lines, and make our expert college basketball picks, predictions and bets.

The game will feature two expected future NBA lottery picks in Chet Holmgren and Jalen Duren.

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The way we came out fighting in the second half I thought was more who we are, and then we just did a great job down the stretch, executing all our late game stuff to get it done.” “I would like to do a better job in the first half because that’s not a recipe to go far and win a lot of games. I just love the fight in these guys up here and the rest of them in the locker room because we had to dig very, very deep. “Look, these two are our leaders,” Few said of Timme and Nembhard. “It’s their team. First, a Timme-to-Chet Holmgren alley-oop gave the Bulldogs an advantage. “I would like to stop doing that,” Timme said.