Here we go again. This time, a first for the Hate Files; we’re targeting a specific university’s basketball program. Yeah, my UCLA fandom has grown in the past few years; that seed my wife planted in my son’s brain has spread to me… and now we’re all big fans of UCLA basketball. With that as a backdrop, let me proceed with this Hate File first.
Gonzaga University Men’s Basketball Team… I hate you. Always the underdog. Always winning during the regular season. Never winning when it counts, well, except for a couple recent games against UCLA in the tourney. What a bunch of lucky ass chumps. Let’s first talk about the conference. The West Coast Conference??? At what point will the Zags “man up” and get into a real conference? Why do they always have a good record? Why are they always in the tourney? Look no further. If these guys played real competition all season, it would be a different story, no doubt. Staying in the cream puff conference will guarantee we will always see Gonzaga during March; I guess that’s enough for them… just to make the tournament, kind of like those small schools who enter as a 16 seed and have zero chance to win; just don’t mention that to Purdue… ouch. Yeah, Gonzaga is still living in this world during the regular season… a big fish in a small pond… when it comes down to it though, that big fish ain’t that big.
Yet, they seem to have UCLA’s number; that’s what has brought us here today. A few years back, that UCLA team that made it to the Final Four after winning a play in game took the “giant” Gonzaga to the brink; the Zags required a miracle shot by Jalen Suggs to defeat UCLA… like I said, lucky ass shit. Then the Zags went on to win their first national title… oh wait, no, no they didn’t. They got their asses handed to them by Baylor; blowout city. This year was round 2 Gonzaga vs UCLA; the end result was the same. Of course, UCLA was missing the PAC 12 defensive player of the year AND another member of the PAC 12 all-defensive team, their star freshman center. Thus, that dude with the mustache did whatever he wanted. It took UCLA to go w/o a FG for 11 minutes for Gonzaga to finally take the lead; the game was in the bag… until it wasn’t. UCLA hit a go ahead trey with 12 seconds left to snatch back the lead… before Gonzaga hit another lucky ass shot from the logo… but they practiced it… OK. Pure Luck. And then the same thing happened… Gonzaga advanced past UCLA and got pasted; this time UCONN did the deed. Same old story for the Zags.
Zero national titles for this “little train that could”. Yes, Gonzaga has become a household name when it comes to NCAA men’s basketball, yet, it has won absolutely nothing. Of course UCLA has won 11 of them, but who’s counting? Yeah, can’t stand them; it didn’t help that I placed my biggest bet of the year on UCLA… up in smoke… thankfully I went 10-1 in the other 11 games the past weekend to inch ahead overall. But the Zags.. heading into next year, expect more of the same. A great regular season, a conference championship, and a March Madness appearance without a national title. If that is good enough for Gonzaga, then it should be good enough for the rest of us. Congratulations to the participation champ of the past 2 decades: the Gonzaga Bull (shit) Dogs.
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