NOTES

Richie Frahm, the Gonzaga guard who had scored 26 points in Thursday’s upset win over Minnesota, was often barely able to move and almost always unable to breath through his nose in Saturday’s upset win over Stanford.

Frahm, a junior from Battle Ground, Wash., is limping around with a tender right hamstring and now he has acquired a terrible cold as well. Against Stanford, Frahm would play four or five minutes, until he couldn’t move very well, then hobble off the the bench to let the pain in his leg ease up and to blow his nose. So instead of shooting 7 of 13 from the field as he did Thursday, Frahm struggled with his shot Saturday, making only three of 12 baskets. But when Frahm was standing still at the foul line, things were easier.

“I couldn’t get my legs under me at all in the game,” Frahm said, “but I could do better with free throws.” He made eight of his nine foul shots.

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This is only the second time since 1957 and the first time since Loyola Marymount in 1990 that a West Coast Conference team has made it to the Sweet 16. Gonzaga guard Matt Santangelo said that it had bothered him the last couple of years when the regular-season WCC champs would get upset in the conference tournament. “We weren’t sending our best teams to the NCAA,” Santangelo said, “and then the conference wasn’t being represented well. We wanted to change that a little this year and show that we can play some pretty good basketball in the WCC.”

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Stanford guard Arthur Lee had a streak of 46 straight free throws in NCAA tournament games stopped Saturday but still the senior guard was 11 of 12 from the foul line against Gonzaga.