SAN FRANCISCO – As he walked off the War Memorial Gym court, University of San Francisco men's basketball center Jimbo Lull pulled his hair back and laced his fingers behind his hanging head.
Lull and the Dons led No. 2 Gonzaga for most of Saturday's game, held a double-digit lead in the first half and held a two-point lead with two minutes to go in the teams' first meeting of the year. They couldn't hold on in an 83-79 loss.
Though San Francisco will rightly receive its fair share of plaudits for grinding arguably the best team in the nation for 40 minutes, it's hard not to wonder what could have been.