College basketball: Why Gonzaga’s visit to Santa Clara might be Broncos’ biggest game in decades

Marlon Garnett played 14 seasons of international basketball, worked nine years as an NBA assistant coach and currently helps coach a team in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional, Puerto Rico’s professional league. Now 50, Garnett was a junior at Santa Clara and Steve Nash’s backcourt mate when the Broncos most recently made it to the NCAA tournament in 1996. Three decades later, Garnett is excited by the prospect that his alma mater could get back to the Big Dance. At 22-5, the Broncos are off to their best start since the 1969-70 season. They sit atop the West Coast Conference with a 13-1 mark. On Saturday night, they put their nine-game win streak and 13-0 home record on the line against...