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Poll Position

By Chris Sprow

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

In 2002, Gonzaga recorded their best regular season in school history: the team was 29-3, ranked No. 4 in the AP poll. Yet, when the tourney seeds came out, Gonzaga was a 6-seed. Did the ranking not matter? A week later, Gonzaga went out and lost to 11-seeded Wyoming in the first round. The Zags hadn't been pre-season ranked, and Mark Few and the program learned a lesson: climbing the polls off cupcakes is easy, but RPI matters more. Since then, the Zags have routinely played a brutal ...

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