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Watch: Dan Dickau breaks down Gonzaga's 79-76 Sweet 16 win over UCLA

The Bulldogs advance to play UConn in the Elite 8 on Saturday

LAS VEGAS — Julian Strawther hit the game-winning three-pointer to give Gonzaga a 79-76 win over UCLA in the Sweet 16 on Thursday night. 

After the game, Gonzaga men's basketball legend Dan Dickau broke down the Bulldogs' win with Gonzaga Nation's Connor Morrissette. Watch the full clip above. 

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Here's some of what Gonzaga head coach Mark Few told reporters postgame:

On Strawther's last shot:

"I'm telling you, he's made that shot multiple times for us this year. You look back at the BYU game, he had a very deep three, a dagger three like that in that game, very similar. We practice that play. That's Jay Wright's play that he used in the Villanova-North Carolina championship. That's what we call it. Julian makes it all the time. When he asked me, it was stronger words than what he used. I just said, yeah, make it. Make it. But if he was closely guarded I wanted him going downhill to get to his floater which he's been great at all year."

On how Gonzaga turned the game around after the first half:

"They're really, really good. They're not only really, really good, they're really, really tough. And I think we got knocked back much like we did in the TCU game. I think, this time it was just because of their will and toughness. We were not guarding well. For whatever reason our ball screen coverage, defense slipped back to where it was in November. And it has not been like that the last six weeks, six or seven weeks. So I just challenged them on that and I said we've got 20 minutes. That's plenty of time. There's no ten-point point play I'm going to draw up. Just possession by possession, we've got to play better defense. And we just had some really uncharacteristic bonehead moves in the first half. Air dribbles and I think we lost three bouncing it and traveling and doing all kinds of stuff. So I challenged them in that regard to start taking care of the ball. And you've been with us all year, this is such a resilient crew. They just find a way to win. It's probably not as aesthetically pleasing as some of the other teams we've had up there but man is it effective."