SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).
SPOKANE, Wash. — Grand Canyon’s first NCAA event win arrived in model.
Of their third look within the event since elevating to Division I in 2013, the Lopes defeated Saint Mary’s 75-66 on Friday at Spokane Area.
“That is type of the following step within the maturation of a profitable program, is with the ability to win a sport within the event,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew stated. “And for myself — and I feel for our program and for our faculty — it’s simply an enormous step. Some extra folks can notice how particular a faculty GCU is and hopefully the hassle we gave tonight, hopefully we will observe up with a fantastic effort on Sunday [against fourth-seeded Alabama].”
It was additionally a validating win. When Drew interviewed at GCU in 2020, he was introduced with a imaginative and prescient of days like this one. The staff had been a constant winner beneath former coach Dan Majerle however had failed to achieve the NCAA event in its first seven seasons on the Division I degree.
Drew noticed this system’s potential and was in want of a private reset after his three-year tenure at Vanderbilt ended with a winless SEC season in 2018-19.
“We’re such a novel place. We’re a faculty of religion. We’ve 25,000 on floor, we’ve got 90,000 on-line, and it is solely rising,” Drew stated. “And 4 years in the past, after I got here to interview with President [Brian] Mueller, who’s right here, and Jerry Colangelo. Spoke to them about their imaginative and prescient they usually advised me what they envisioned for GCU, and it has been superb to look again 4 years now at that first speak and a lot of what we talked about is occurring proper now.”
Drew, after all, is not any stranger to March Insanity upsets, having made one of the vital iconic photographs in event historical past in 1998, when his 3-pointer on the buzzer despatched Thirteenth-seeded Valparaiso previous No. 4 Ole Miss 70-69.
His father, Homer, was the coach of that Valparaiso staff that reached the Candy 16. Homer was in attendance Friday however won’t be sticking round to see Grand Canyon play Alabama, as a substitute opting to see his different son, Baylor coach Scott Drew, lead the Bears in opposition to Clemson on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee.
Each groups are within the West area and would play within the Elite Eight in the event that they every win two extra video games.
Grand Canyon’s win was not a typical upset. The underdogs had been sooner, stronger and extra aggressive. They completed with eight steals and 9 blocks, whereas Saint Mary’s — the West Coast Convention regular-season and event champion — performed timidly.
“It is cool to see the world seeing what we’re able to, what GCU is able to,” ahead Gabe McGlothan stated. “And simply that we’re simply not performed but.”
Tyon Grant-Foster, the one-time Kansas Jayhawk who transferred to Grand Canyon from DePaul, led the Lopes with 22 factors and was considered one of 4 GCU gamers to attain in double figures, together with Ray Harrison (17), Collin Moore (10) and McGlothan (12).