The 1998–99 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented
Gonzaga University
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in the
West Coast Conference (WCC) during the
1998–99 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 1998–99 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1998 and concluded with the 64-team 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, whose 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game, finals were held at Trop ...
. Led by second-year head coach
Dan Monson, the Bulldogs were overall in the regular season and played their home games on campus at the
Charlotte Y. Martin Centre in
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south o ...
.
The top-seeded Zags won the
conference tournament at
Santa Clara,
and were seeded tenth in the
West regional of the
NCAA tournament. Unranked and sent to
Seattle
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, they recorded the program's first NCAA tournament wins with upsets of
Minnesota
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and #7
Stanford, the region's second seed. In the Sweet Sixteen at
Phoenix, Gonzaga edged sixth-seeded
Florida
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by a point,
but fell by five in the Elite Eight to third-ranked
Connecticut
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, the eventual
national champion, and finished at
Roster
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Schedule
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WCC Tournament
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NCAA tournament
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References
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