March Madness & Outlook for the Gonzaga Men's Basketball Team.
Richard & David will lead a panel of former Gonzaga Men's Basketball players to talk about the current team's year, outlook for where they might land in the March Madness bracket, and what it will take to make a deep run in the tournament this year.
Brief Speaker's Bio
Richard Fox Hoops Highlights:
Richard transferred to Gonzaga after spending two seasons at the University of Colorado. A product of Regis High in Denver, CO. He set a career high with 17 rebounds against North Carolina State University in the Jimmy V Classic, the 17 boards also a classic record. He suffered a broken ring finger late in the season and missed the final five games of the regular season.
He returned to action for the post-season and played an integral role in Gonzaga's 96-95 double-overtime NCAA Second Round loss to the University of Arizona, a game dubbed an Instant Classic by ESPN. Richard played 19 minutes, several of them in crunch time when Ronny Turiaf fouled out with 2:16 to play in regulation. He scored 13 points and grabbed five rebounds. His tip-in with 14 seconds left in regulation pulled Gonzaga to within 77-76. He scored five points in the first overtime and twice had baskets that put the Bulldogs ahead by one.
Richard is a color analyst for Gonzaga Men’s Basketball games on KHQ/SWX. He is also a co-host of the Zags Basketball Insiders podcast. Away from basketball, Richard is a Broker in the Commercial Brokerage Division of Kiemle
David Pendergraft, COO, McConkey Auction Group
Pendergraft, known as “Pendo,” was a Swiss Army knife-like talent who played basketball at Gonzaga University from 2004-2008. David was only a sophomore at Brewster High School when he committed to Gonzaga, spurning interest from the likes of Stanford, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, and other high-profile Division-1 schools. The attention was unusual for an athlete from a 1A high school in a town of around 2,000 residents, 135 miles northwest of Spokane.
David was part of four regular-season West Coast Conference titles, three WCC Tournament crowns, and a quartet of appearances in the NCAA Tournament, including a Sweet 16 run in 2006. The program racked up 103 wins against only 28 losses with Pendergraft on the roster. As a senior, he earned first-team All WCC honors.