Almost from the moment his Gonzaga team beat Xavier last March to make the Final Four in Phoenix, he began planning for a special week. “Gonzaga didn’t have any budget back then,” Turgeon said. He’d say to me, ‘Why should UCLA get all the good players? I mean, they’re very good and it was a really good game decided at the very end. “But I honestly thought Nigel had a chance to be the face of college basketball this season: a senior who was the best player on a good team.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2018 13:52 UTC