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SAN JOSE, Calif.—Mark Few insists he never had a monkey on his back. He says he doesn’t wake up with one or walk around with one. His wife has never seen one, and his fishing buddies have never mentioned one.
Even as Gonzaga’s basketball team made 18 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances without reaching a Final Four, the Bulldogs’ coach maintained that there was no hump to get over, no glass ceiling to shatter.
But in…