Priceless.
You do realize that on the few occasions Gonzaga didn’t earn the WCC’s automatic bid, its non-conference performance got them in the tournament, anyways? You act like they don’t beat anybody in the regular season, which they do. And they do it with a lot less opportunities than major conference teams like the Gophers have. Almost without fail, they have among the best non-conference schedules in the country.
Selection... I don't claim to have anywhere near the knowledge of basketball stats that you have, but you should at least check them before you try to ridicule someone for not knowing anything.
Gonzaga qualified 14 out of the last 18 years as an automatic bid!. Also, Gonzaga schedules some good non-conference opponents because they typically do not play many in their conference. Going back through the years, their non-conference games are not much more difficult than a typical B1G conference schedule and they consitently do not win a majority of them.
Let's just go with the last 11 years and their record versus top twenty five teams:
underlined teams are in the Tourney
2007-08: 1-5 beat StM, lost to Wash St, Tenn, Memphis, StM,
Davidson
2008-09: 3-3 beat Tenn (twice), StM, lost to uConn, Memphis,
NC
2009-10: 0-3 beat nobody, lost to MSU, Duke,
Syracuse
2010-11: 2-5 beat
StJohns, Baylor, lost to SDSU, Kstate, Ill, ND, Baylor,
BYU
2011-12: 1-1 beat StM, Lost to
OhioSt
2012-13: 1-2 beat OKst, lost to Ill,
Butler
2013-14: 0-2 beat nobody, lost to Memphis,
Arizona
2014-15: 1-2 beat SMU, lost to Arizona,
Duke
2015-16: 3-3 beat uConn,
Setonhall,
Utah, lost to Texas A&M, Arizona, SMU
2016-17: 6-1 beat IowaSt, Arizona, StM (three time),
WVirg, lost to
NC
2017-18: 2-2 beat StM,
OhioSt, lost to FL, Nova
Like I said before, Gonzaga has been a good team, but a lot of it has to do with the conference that they are in and the ease they have in getting into the Tourney. Their non-conference record is nowhere near among the best in the country.