The man who’s most qualified to pick the winner of Tuesday night’s Gonzaga-UCLA showdown isn’t ready to make a prediction. Bellarmine coach Scott Davenport won’t say which team he thinks is better after facing both in a span of 72 hours.
Is it the top-ranked Zags, who overwhelmed Bellarmine with smothering defensive pressure last Friday night en route to a 42-point rout? Or is it the second-ranked Bruins, who three nights later opened a 23-point early second-half lead before taking their foot off the accelerator? Davenport plays it coy. The graying former Rick Pitino assistant chuckles and says, “You’d have a better chance asking me to dunk a basketball than to try to choose between them.