The only thing Adam Morrison could do was scream.
Former star Gonzaga is currently part of his Alma Mater radio team, and Morrison proved boring when freshman Jalen Suggs scored Saturday night against the UCLA overtime buzzer to keep the Bulldogs undefeated and throw them into the championship game. Monday’s NCAA tournament. against Baylor.
While playmate Tom-Hudson explains the frantic final sequence and the immediate celebration, Morrison, 36, can be heard repeatedly shouting “Yes!” and “Wow!”
A tearful Morrison had been on the other side of a heartbreaking loss to UCLA in the Sweet 16 of the 2006 tournament, with the Bruins scoring the final 11 points of the game for a 73-71 victory. Morrison was a selection for the All-America first team and was the national team player of the year that season with Duke JJ Redick.
Gonzaga (31-0), at the top, can become the first men’s team in Division I to complete an undefeated season in Indiana, in 1976, on Monday night against Baylor (27-2). It will be Gonzaga’s second appearance in the championship match after losing in the final to North Carolina in 2017.