Gonzaga secures WCC with 70-53 sway Pacific
Kevin Pangos had 18 points, Drew Barham matched his occupation superior with 17 factors off the bench, and Gonzaga defeated Pacific 70-53 on Thursday night to secure the downright West Coastline Seminar normal season title.
It was the excellent bounce-back game for the Bulldogs, (24-6, 14-3 WCC), who will head into the conference tournament as the top seed for the 11th time in trainer Mark Few's 15 periods. Gonzaga had lost back-to-back games to BYU and San Diego and fell out of the Top 25 prior to burning out the Tigers in their first visit to the Northern The golden state university in more than 35 years.
The Bulldogs led by as long as 23 regardless of a sluggish night from leading scorer Sam Dower Jr. and got good enough scoring off the bench to make up for the slack.
T.J. Wallace had 9 points and four rebounds for Pacific (14-14, 5-12).
The Bulldogs led virtually the whole game and had not a problem putting away the Tigers in their initial check out to the Pacific school given that Dec. 23, 1976.
That took Gonzaga from a must-win circumstance heading into Saturday's regular-season finale at St. Mary's.
Pangos, pursued 17 points combined in the losses to BYU and San Diego, had 15 factors in the first one-half and repeatedly sped up past Pacific's defense for simple buckets. He had nine points as part of a 13-0 run when Gonzaga took the lead permanently, after that aided keep the Bulldogs pleasantly in advance in the 2nd fifty percent.
That aided balance out a slow night from 7-foot-1 center Przemek Karnowski. Karnowski invested considerably of the first fifty percent on the bench in foul trouble and hurt his appropriate foot six mins into the second half. Gonzaga's big man returned and finished with nine factors and 9 rebounds.
Dower Jr., the Bulldogs' prominent scorer, was likewise reduced by fouls and had just 6 factors.
Gonzaga had no problem choosing the protective slack and required 16 turn overs - 10 in the first half - and got a big lift from Barham off the bench.
Barham made four 3-pointers to keep the Bulldogs rolling. He scored eight successive indicate push the Bulldogs cause 64-43 in the 2nd one-half.
Pacific, which matched its lengthiest losing streak of the season at 4, couldn't keep up.
Playing before their largest crowd because 2005, the Tigers got off to a slow start after that quickly pioneered midway through the initial one-half prior to losing to Gonzaga for the 5th time in six conferences in between both institutions.
It marked the 4th straight game Pacific has actually been held under 60 points.
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Gonzaga held Pacific scoreless for the initial five minutes however led simply 12-11 after Karnowski chose his second nasty midway via the initial half.
Pangos buyinged on three fast layups and made a trio of free throws as part of a 13-0 run that put Gonzaga up for great. He later on included a pair of 3s that helped the Bulldogs climb 40-28 at halftime.
