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To: accountclosed who wrote (26343)	3/19/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

ASk and you shall receive ...-g- I had no clue who or what Gonzaga was until half an hour ago when I looked at the sports section of the Houston Chronicle. In Gonzaga's world, anything's possible By JOHN LOPEZ PHOENIX -- For Florida, just like it was for Stanford before that and Minnesota before that, it's the same old song: Here today, Gonzaga tomorrow. This is what happens when you face a small, mispronounced Jesuit university that's named after the patron saint of youth -- St. Aloysius Gonzaga. You face a team that is young and skilled and seemingly blessed, like a bunch of kids bouncing off the playground equipment but always finding a way to walk away unscathed and giddy. You face heart and nerve like never before. You face determination and resolve. You lose. "To the rest of the nation, we're Cinderella," said Gonzaga (that's Gon-ZAY-ga) forward Casey Calvary. "But in our own eyes, we've believed in this tournament that we can beat anybody." This is what happens when you play for a university whose most famous alumni might be called the patron saints of overachieving hoops and soothing sweet music -- John Stockton and Bing Crosby. You play for a coach who teaches the overachieving basketball marvelously -- press-breaking ball-handling, terrific rotation around a zone, smart shot selection and tough rebounding. As for the sweet music, you flood the floor with an array of shooters who have names straight out of a frat house -- Quentin, Axel, Casey, Ryan and Richie. And they make the nets sing. You feel like anything is possible, even this: Gonzaga 73, Florida 72 in blessed display of NCAA madness.