The 1998–99 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented

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in the West Coast Conference (WCC) during the

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. 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

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. 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

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, they recorded the program's first NCAA tournament wins with upsets of

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and #7 Stanford, the region's second seed. In the Sweet Sixteen at Phoenix, Gonzaga edged sixth-seeded

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by a point, but fell by five in the Elite Eight to third-ranked

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, the eventual national champion, and finished at

Roster

Schedule

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References

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