Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and former Big 12 player of the year Marcus Morris Sr. react to the Cougars’ 81-76 win over the Bulldogs to advance to the regional semifinal for the sixth consecutive season – and end the ‘Zags run of nine straight Sweet 16 appearances.

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Houston, we almost had a problem as number one seed Houston survives against Gonzaga in the game.

Don’t let the final score fool you.

8176.

It was down to the very last possession going into this game.

He’s Marcus Moore Senior.

I’m Jason Fitz.

LJ Cryer Marcus absolutely put on a clinic.

He absolutely carried Houston offensively today, going 6 to 11 from three and making 6 out of 8 threes that was made by Houston team altogether.

Graham Ike from Gonzaga claimed to play really well, uh, dominated down low, but Houston hangs hangs their head on defense, and when they needed to stop down the stretch, they got it.

And this is what the tournament’s all about, right?

Like Mark Few and Gonzaga made an incredible comeback to make this thing down to the wire.

But in those moments, you need your stars to come up big and Houston’s got one of those stars.

It’s just such an alarming moment when you see it.

This is what we want, the stars showing up.

It’s very important down the stretch to have a guy that you could put the ball in his hands.

We know Houston is defense is tenacious.

They switch everything, they smother you, but sometimes they had these offensive droughts.

LJ Cryer find a great time to have his career high, will match his career high today and got Houston as women.

Yeah, and now what we get is a little bit of chalk here.

Houston, the 1 seed taking on Purdue, the 4 seed.

How do you like it?

Two veteran teams, both battle tested.

There should be a lot of fireworks.

I don’t see the scores being this high, but uh man, I’m excited to see these two clash.

I just wish my bracket was still in as good a shape as yours is.

It’s, it’s been a wild ride so far.

Man, the the the battle of the number ones, and every, every region the number ones are still alive.

I see how it go.