LAS VEGAS – Charles Minlend lay, face-down, in the middle of the herringbone key at The Orleans Arena.
As the buzzer sounded following a wild, desperate try by the redshirt junior an exhausted Minlend spent a moment reflecting.
Twice, this season, the University of San Francisco men's basketball team have given Gonzaga a first-half fight, but hadn't been able to upset the conference-leading Bulldogs.
On Monday, in the semifinals of the West Coast Conference Tournament — an event Mark Few's Bulldogs have owned for more than two decades — USF (22-12) nearly toppled the No.