Gonzaga vs. Kansas - Second Round NCAA tournament extended highlights

Gonzaga pulled away in the second half to knock off Kansas and advance to the Sweet 16 of the 2024 men's NCAA tournament. Watch the extended highlights from the Bulldogs' second round win here.
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[@sports3117]

When Gonzaga is clicking on all cylinders in this tournament, they can beat anybody. The 2nd half energy was outstanding

[@twistedtide]

Nah Id say at their best, uConn, Houston, Arizona, Tennessee, or Illinois can beat them

[@PeakSSC]

@@twistedtideyeah but today they wull beat Purdue

[@jeromedanielson4422]

Nope, UConn would again torch this team, it's a bad matchup for the Zags.

[@ryanamburgy2791]

@@twistedtide Iowa state too

[@raysalsa1]

@@jeromedanielson4422 true they weren't in that game b/c they shot less than 20% from 3 pt line. However, they did rebound with uconn. If they can score at a good clip and lose a game in high 80's i guess it is not meant to be. If creighton can beat uconn by double digits then they are beatable. In march anything can happen. Zags have 7 good players' but little depth after that. Kranovich can give them a few spot minutes at guard. After that it is huge dropoff. Zags can't have foul trouble!

[@YippeeKiYayMrFalcon]

9th straight SWEET 16 appearance for Gonzaga. Let's GO!!!

[@dsav5258]

9 straight yrs folding

[@jaimegaytan5082]

Wapato #1 ❤

[@JamesWoodring-mu2iz]

lol for nothing

[@AndrewB-hk2bg]

@@JamesWoodring-mu2iz cope harder

[@GoZags43]

9 straight Sweet 16s is tougher to do than winning one championship.

[@scotttubiolo9028]

Mark Few is the best coach in basketball to adjust at halftime.

[@snowflakepillow8697]

I dunno if he's the best, but he consistently makes the right changes at half-time if there's an easy fix. Both wins in the home and home with Creighton were by double digits after being down at halftime and I was certain both times Few would get the W. The craziest was against Sean Miller and Arizona in Maui. That team was a house of kerosene-soaked cards and Chase Jeter's outburst lit the match.

[@GS-ho6lz]

So hard to win a natty, but would be wild if this years counted out Zags team did something crazy

[@Dhawkman341]

The Zags are the most consistent program in the country to never win a Natty. lol

[@GoatedAtNFS]

id honestly rather have that than be like some other blue blood programs who can’t even get outta the first round

[@Cmf1988]

Saltier than a peanut!!

[@joinjen3854]

Zags are a tiny private school. They do their best

[@YippeeKiYayMrFalcon]

Gonzaga definitely struggled this year.. despite this, they just made their 9th straight sweet sixteen appearance. That's an incredible feat.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

@@YippeeKiYayMrFalconblue bloods

[@cliffordhill2365]

The experts 0 and 2 now. First, they said McNeese St. would beat the Zags, and now Kansas. Congrats to the Zags, they're going to the sweet 16!

[@davethomas3434]

Gonzaga has a good team that can play with anybody on a decent night, but they've been horribly inconsistent, mainly from three, and have some eye rolling losses. Thing is in most of those games we shoot like 18% from three, but in these last two we've gone 73% and 53% respectively. If we're hovering around 40% it's at least gonna be close.

[@cliffordhill2365]

Well stated. They've played better than I thought with Drew Timme and Julian Strather graduating

[@johnt3155]

What expert thought KU was going to beat gonzaga?

[@cliffordhill2365]

I don't know them all by name, but you can find them calling the games. I can see why they feel the way they do. The Zags have lost Drew Time and Julian Strawther, plus they usually choke down the stretch

[@johnnywebb2351]

😂pleeease 😂 experts 😂

[@Johnathonhuff95]

I’m a Syracuse fan but I’ve always rooted for Mark Few and Gonzaga to breakthrough one of these years because they are a really good team year in and year out, this year was technically a down year for them and they’re still 27-7!

[@YippeeKiYayMrFalcon]

💯

[@grandmasWet]

I respect it. Go Zags

[@jdaily2293]

37-6 run over 13 mins is incredible. Incredibly impressive by Gonzaga to score so much and incredibly embarrassing to only score 3 FGs in that long a stretch. We knew Kansas had no chance to win the title losing McCullar and having a hurt Dickinson but that was a total embarrassment.

[@jeannemarie5566]

And give Zags even more credit because they lost their marquis player, Steele Ventor, the first week of the season and Gregg is playing with an injured ankle.

[@todddepaepe2418]

I think not having a target on our back let's us play better. Proud to be a Zag today. (Biggest fan East of the Mississippi River)

[@chadmahana4830]

Ohh I beg to differ! I'm a born and bred SPOKANE NATIVE and GU Graduate! I bleed red and blue and love my Zags all the way over in MYRTLE BEACH SC!!! Miss seeing my guys in person....

[@silverstudios6916]

Justice has been served 🔥🔥🔥

[@DolFan316]

In over 30 years of watching this tournament, it's been my experience that when a blue blood benefits from a horrible call to steal a win, they always win at least once more and sometimes 2 or 3 more. Every now and then they even win the whole thing. This is the first time I can recall karma applying itself immediately. Not that it's any consolation to Samford of course. Just like it wasn't any consolation to UNC Asheville or Kennesaw St. when it happened to them.

[@Closet-Sports]

Let’s go Gonzaga I’m not a zaga fan by no means but I’m from Texas and moved up to Idaho for like 2 years and they where like 30 minutes so I always keep up with them it’s a dynasty

[@stewiegriffinfan18]

What made you move to Idaho?

[@grandmasWet]

Cda then?

[@BMoney77]

Court D Alene? Same for me lol. I moved there in 99 same year they made that first run. Been a fan ever since.

[@stewiegriffinfan18]

@@BMoney77 I bet it was really nice back then before all the multiculties entered

[@BMoney77]

@@stewiegriffinfan18 I don’t live there anymore. I moved in 2007

[@user-qu4vs1em5m]

The boys are peaking at the right time. Go Zags!

[@DimeDoppler]

Gonzaga runs a beautiful offense

[@lukewenberg4271]

My Jayhawk friends real quiet today

[@user-qn9nr7ot8m]

So I'm I friend

[@Doc_Watts]

We’re embarrassed, and should be.

[@silverstudios6916]

Samford has been redeemed

[@don1again879]

Karma's a beyaaaaaa

[@Lost_souls_lose_freedom]

​@@Doc_Wattswhy, did you really think this team was going to win this game? They were the 52 best team the last month of the season behind Charleston plus McCullar being out they should have been a about a 8 seed not a 4.

[@SeekanDestroy03]

With my UW Dawgs falling short in the Natty; it'd be amazing to see the Zags get their 1st Championship for Washington 🤙 #godawgs 🐺

[@22tango79]

Gonzaga reprising the great Celtics of the eighties here: Ike as Chief, Gregg as McHale, Watson as Bird, Nembhard as DJ, and Hickman as Ainge. Hopefully we can go all the way. Hey, a man can dream right? Go Zags!

[@joinjen3854]

A sports guy called the Zags the Warriors with splash brothers.

[@smolove4005]

Really well thought out

[@BMoney77]

Ben Gregg plays nasty. Definitely see him as a McHale type. I think Gregg could play in the NBA.

[@joinjen3854]

@@BMoney77 Gregg is amazing. He and Watson are both Swiss Army knives of BB.

[@Shabla7]

All good players but comparing Watson to Bird is a travesty.

[@jameskile5113]

What a terrific game by the Zags. The underrated hero of this run has been Hickman. Everyone on the team has been stepping up and playing great but Hickmans consistency from deep and ability to run the pick and role has been massive

[@alexanderhopkins7837]

As a Gonzaga fan this helped my depression thanks Gonzaga 💙🤍

[@alntr2872]

College basketball is so much better than the NBA. Real defense and tough play.

[@lebron1679]

For much ufff. Best games is ncaa

[@rylian21]

NBA is a trash league.

[@BMoney77]

Agreed. I don’t even watch the NBA. Not nearly as fun.

[@BMoney77]

Agreed. I don’t even watch the NBA. Not nearly as fun.

[@annamoyle]

Guess you’ve never heard of the NBA playoffs

[@dwurgy.]

Zaga to the final 4

[@BMoney77]

I don’t think so. But this would be the year they win it all. Not as much pressure.

[@Josh1888USU]

Sorry Jayhawks, I could have told you that you weren't going to beat Gonzaga in the house that John Stockton helped to build.

[@johnbrattan9341]

So?

[@perryanderson5642]

And KARL MALONE, The Mailman in Salt Lake City. As a Jazz Fan, I've Definitely helped Pay for that Building.

[@meboy3513]

BEEN SAYING ALL year that KU is sorry and everyone needs to admit it 😂😂😭 SMH

[@AspireGMD]

Looks like the bulldog gang got it's revenge after that Samford tragedy.

[@joinjen3854]

Zags came out of halftime and punched the jhawks in the mouth

[@ToddToTheBlack]

Yeh, too bad zags can't punch and win a trophy...

[@theoriemeister]

@@ToddToTheBlackWell, they're a lot closer to that goal today than 48 other teams. (Well, 52 actually if you count the other four play-in teams.)

[@ToddToTheBlack]

@@theoriemeister Show me the "Closer to the goal" column I'm not familiar with that one. You either win a title or you don't, and so far, zag keeps coming up short every year.

[@Emac000]

I remember when Gonzaga in the late 90’s was THE CINDERELLA if you saw them in the first round your going home to now a blue blood just unbelievable hope I get to see there first national championship they have been close

[@poodook]

Hey KU, how did that NIL money for Hunter work out? 😂😂😂

[@derekhayes5536]

top 10 team all year until injuries , worked out fine.

[@lightmagnet1961]

​@@derekhayes5536Self put ALL his coins in Dickenson. With his height and weight he should dominate. He doesnt. Kansas was overrated ALL year because he chooses not to play anyone good at the other teams arena until big 12. Only plays bluebloods at home or neutral site. Selfs lack of playing other pkayers to get experience cost him didnt it. Self is single handedly to blame for bad season

[@ToddToTheBlack]

How does not having any titles feel?

[@poodook]

@@ToddToTheBlack just fine! Self had to cheat to get titles, so KU is tainted as a program anyway.

[@johnnywebb2351]

😂

[@coreyrowe4119]

Kansas hung around longer than I expected leading by 1 at the half but with their lack of depth it just felt inevitable that Gonzaga was gonna come back and beat them in the 2nd half.

[@michaeljohnson1818]

Karma for Kansas. Zags were supposed to be playing Samford

[@GoatedAtNFS]

don’t know why the committee made this a potential 2nd round matchup because this felt like the final four. only difference is Gonzaga dominated the 2nd half. had them as my final four pick, still stands.

[@ryanamburgy2791]

Kansas was injured they never had any final four chances.

[@MattBuild4]

Yeah final four? You do realize KU finished 5th in the B12 with a healthy team?

[@arthurrtang9670]

Going to be a tough sweet 16 matchup against Purdue. Excited and nervous at the same time.

[@drunkwizard2362]

Gonzaga is so due for a championship

[@fightnight14]

The upcoming Bulldogs vs Boilermakers might be one of the best matches in this tournament

[@michaelgoodman2672]

Gonzaga has been around along time! Coach Few did a great job coaching today! Best win this year so far!

[@bayshawnmartin4477]

Number 13 on Gonzaga playing like Chris Bosh out there

[@user-ic5ou2ls1b]

Go zags ❤💙😤

[@alienspace3960]

Mark Few and Tom Izzo called Jud a huge mentor to both of them i remember them both with Jud before the Gonzaga MSU game years ago.

[@shakiemjeanjoseph428]

#5 Gonzaga will face #1 Purdue on Friday in Detroit in the Midwest Region 7:39pm on TBS/TruTV

[@ldolphin34]

If Utah State gets to that game, I want to see Graham Ike get feisty against one of his former opponents at Wyoming. That should plenty motivate him.

[@AceLopez1]

Karma is real and it collected on Kansas. The refs bailed them out against Sanford but couldn’t versus the Zags. Good for Gonzaga.

[@samthomas3383]

Hickman is like alternate universe PJ washington

[@user-kp7qy4ts1v]

Gonzaga really deserves a championship

[@bkooo5363]

Glad to see Kansas out, the refs robbed Samford in previous round.

[@user-pc7qy1gf3j]

Rooting for the zags 🤙😎

[@jwang2879]

One bull dog school avenging another, poetry

[@BIG800-nw6xh]

Not zag fan but I hope they Winn it all Mark few deserves aring

[@angelatanurdzic7508]

Gonzaga ❤🎉

[@cityboyjuice]

Dickinson has to give more on defense at his size a lot of buckets were uncontested of not being aware or out of position. As a center if your guard gets beat you have to offer some kind of defensive support

[@johnnywebb2351]

😂 he weak 🤣

[@khumbulanindlovu3967]

Gonzaga giving Kimmel more material

[@dennisolsosn9321]

Kimmel is a little man

[@AndrewB-hk2bg]

That cry baby is irrelevant.

[@XxMonkeyman3831xX]

Kimmel is a coward

[@michaeljohnston980]

@@XxMonkeyman3831xXah you poor little Trump victims 😂😂😂😂

[@stevenvicijan4338]

Sabonis would be proud.

[@JDAWG1122]

Gonzaga could beat Purdue if they can stop edey and play like they did today 1:02

[@bandcgaming6954]

If they play at the level the did in the 2nd half

[@IAmAlpharius20]

Refs won't let them lol

[@UserGuset-ki5pz]

Go zags💙❤💯

[@israeldavila5073]

Zaga different 9 straight sweet 16 they look really good this why i got them in the final 4

[@DolFan316]

As someone old enough to remember when Gonzaga failed to reach the Sweet 16 11 times in a 13 year stretch, I still have trouble processing them getting that far 9 straight times now.

[@leifrausch9517]

GO ZAGS

[@nenola504]

As a Kentucky fan I cant even say nun 😂😂😂

[@JunkYardCardGuy]

Ouch....Does Cal survive?

[@sheckyfeinstein]

Doesn’t take but a minute to see that these teams are familiar with basketball. I know-highlights.

[@vegasbucs3519]

Few is 1000 times a better coach than Self and it showed today. 2nd half was all Gonzaga.

[@thund3r94]

How many national championships does few have?

[@vegasbucs3519]

Who cares. How many times has Self been busted for rules violations? He is garbage. @@thund3r94

[@DM-sc9rg]

​@@thund3r94 he would have more than self if he was at kansas

[@thund3r94]

@@DM-sc9rg Gonzaga recruits just as well as Kansas does if not better, so no he wouldn’t lol the fact that he doesn’t have a single national championship when he can get just as good or better recruits and plays In a 10x weaker conference shows that he is not better at all

[@Portajon94]

Hunter Dickinson got really good seats to this game.

[@jamesjames6957]

Surprised they didn’t edit 1:06 out 😂😂😂 replayed that 5x to make sure that’s what he said 😂😂😂

[@user-io4sr7vg1v]

Hickman decided he would play like he should. Good decision. We were waiting.

[@26bisket50]

Zags will smash trash Purdue… if they even make it

[@bandcgaming6954]

Prudue did make it lol

[@xxyyzz8464]

Kansas honestly did not deserve to be in the tournament. They had quality wins at home (3 - 7 on the road this year) against some top opponents earlier in the season, but anyone who followed them knew they were on a downhill trajectory getting worse and worse all year long, reaching their absolute worst level of consistency and play by the end of the year while other teams were peaking by then and improving as the year went on. Most overrated team of them all by the year’s end. Maybe an 8 seed would have made sense, but this was a KU team you knew would exit the tourney early. Why not give a more deserving team with a shot at a Cinderella Run a chance?

[@analyticalinsight]

You have to look at the entire body of work.. They definitely deserved to be in the tournament, you're bugging...They won 1st round, and now they lost.... Saying they shouldn't have gotten in is bugged out, after the fact

[@SSale12mayweather]

They have great wins, especially over UCONN & Houston.. committee can’t overlook that.

[@maggiegarber246]

They were about a 50-50 team from February through the Big 12 tournament, and they were placed as a 4 in the tourney based on the earlier part of their season. I am a KU grad, and based on years of watching the NCAA tournament, I just don’t understand why the announcers still say the Big 12 is the best conference in the country. It seems as if every year, they get 6 or more teams in the tournament and half are gone the first weekend.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

if you leave them out then leave out half of the Big-12. this take doesn’t make any sense

[@thund3r94]

Didn’t deserve to be in the tournament? You clearly don’t watch Kansas

[@SnorexRoyal5617]

What a down year! Go Zags🎉

[@Jack_Pearce06]

The zags are going to beat the bookmakers next

[@Artemis-A24]

With how Gonzaga has been playing, they have a real shot at winning the tournament. But only time will tell

[@michaeljohnston980]

Long term zags fan but this is not a National championship team

[@johndoherty1258]

Can't believe the traveling and carrying no calls.

[@jorgeespinosa3179]

Kansas all we are is dust in the wind.

[@Rocker5005]

Im shure gwanna enjoy tha rest of y'alls March Mahness, now that Kay You is out!😊

[@luhbrax3746]

3:45 they ran and old school flex offense (the one they ran before the 3pt line) I love to see it. Nothing but dribble handoffs and a bunch of ball screens. It’s the only offense (besides the motion variations) to survive all the changes the game has endured. I been a Duke fan my entire life, and I HATE LANSAS, with a burning passion. But from a coaches standpoint you can’t deny good old fashion old school offesnse.

[@stefanharris659]

Bye Kansas 😂😂😂😂

[@gordonshumway5933]

As exciting as it is, Kansas is known to not be deep this year. That’s not the only reason it went the way it did, but it’s almost certainly partly to blame. Gonzaga came out hot in the second half, looked good on both sides of the ball. They looked great honestly. But Kansas wasn’t hitting their shots and looked tired as it went on

[@dankodde6721]

Think self should have subbed earlier. Their one guard missed four in a row. All open shots. Has to be someone on bench that could make open threes

[@victorunger]

Dude this is Gonzaga’s off year too. Kansas hasn’t been relevant since Obama’s first term.

[@markfroman738]

@@victorungerthey won a natty in 2022 and made final fours in 2012 and 2018. Also made the elite 8 in 2016 and 2017. lol.

[@ryanting5690]

The Bulldogs of Gonzaga eliminated the Jayhawks of Kansas & enters the Midwest Region Semifinals. For Kansas, this is the 7th time that a preseason top seed failed to win it all.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Dorothy leaving Kansas after this one 👩‍🦱

[@sandiego686]

Bill Self is overrated as we all knew!! (2 lucky NCAA final wins). This team lost by 30+ to USC 2 years ago also. Time for Self to retire and move on. Typical Kansas choke :)

[@garyhuynh8723]

Zags got no answer for Edey coming up

[@Kalico_Kallie]

Welp, there goes one of my final four teams

[@GeoAce777]

Well I had Saint Mary's 😔

[@markfroman738]

You had this KU team in the final four? 🤣🤣🤣

[@BryanReeves]

Don’t show WINNER in the THUMBNAIL. Please.

[@jimmyweathersby327]

The zags probably should face tougher regular season competition if they wanna win a natty this team is written to always come up short

[@Drshakababa]

Ouch KU

[@mizrahimjew9351]

A preseason pick by many people and leading by one into halftime, only to fall apart by 21. Life moves on...

[@jonnyboi068]

Samford woulda met their fate as well

[@Hogue7]

No longer Underrated- Gonzaga

[@canadaclaret]

One team adjusted successfully at half-time and the other team is Kansas. Thoroughly out-coached.

[@paulsolon6229]

Gonzaga looks v good

[@tainanking]

Dickinson really transferred just to lose in the 2nd round. Imagine if he stayed at Michigan and if Caleb love wasn’t denied admission. Michigan coulda did some things

[@f.r.etling6226]

Kansas needs to join a real conference they cannot keep up with the big dogs

[@williamholke3325]

Bro they have more Big 12 championships than any other team

[@GoatedAtNFS]

is the Big-12 not a real conference? 😂

[@ChiefsProdz_]

Bro what are you saying? They have the most big 12 championships. It’s ONE off year. Tf is this guy saying😂

[@joinjen3854]

@ChiefsProdz_ take a JOKE!!!! Chippy.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

and how does this have 6 likes like what on earth, y’all worshipped the Big-12 all season AND adding Colorado & Arizona next year who currently are in the tournament!

[@scottl.1568]

That was... Not fun🫤

[@gerrihollowell5097]

Sorry to see you go Jayhawks 😢

[@BigBoiAlpha]

KU robs Samford just to get blowout by another team

[@robfortin7287]

The worst KU team I’ve seen in 35 years

[@johnnywebb2351]

😂

[@ThatGirl551]

😮. They beat them like a drum..

[@erestube]

Too many lethargic moments for the Jayhawks. The " Zags Energy" shirts say it all.

[@Tjayhawk]

Jayhawks were falling apart toward the end of season. It’s not easy to be top of game for long time. Congrats to all KU haters, enjoy your moments while you can. 😭

[@dos3622]

Zackzilla will smash!

[@donzsky4432]

Nice ploy of Zags offensive sets in attacking Hunters weak defense

[@dereksmidl8352]

What happened to ku?!

[@pango-y8j]

West Coast 🌊

[@jordanwolfson8378]

Uh, no audio?

[@TeamRocketRed]

The Fakehawks shouldn't of even made it this far, the refs handed them a win vs Samford.

[@ChiefsProdz_]

Buddy we would’ve won anyway

[@TeamRocketRed]

@@ChiefsProdz_ The only thing you would of won was a free trip to the airport.

[@mkneriahosborne]

@@ChiefsProdz_samford would’ve won 91-90 and that’s facts

[@ChiefsProdz_]

@@TeamRocketRed buddy even if it was a clean call, (which by the way, it looked like a foul in full speed, and it’s non reviewable), they might not have scored on their possession, and even if they did, we would’ve gotten the ball back. So no, you’re wrong there. And buddy there is not way you called us the fake hawks, us Kansas fans know it’s not our year anyway. 2 big injuries and little depth. So no, we aren’t the fake hawks. Most teams would dream of having a 4 seed. For us, it’s a reality. We always get a top 2 too

[@ChiefsProdz_]

@@mkneriahosborne well I guess we’ll never know huh buddy. Maybe don’t go down 22 points

[@GerardoRodriguez-rj7sf]

Spoiler blocker

[@nuagor]

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