updated 5:07 a.m. ET March 19, 2006

SALT LAKE CITY - That wispy mustache shouldn’t fool anyone. Adam Morrison and his Gonzaga teammates are up there with the big boys of college basketball — in large part because there’s more to the Zags than just their superstar.

The Zags proved they’re much more than a one-man show Saturday in the second round of the tournament, defeating the Hoosiers 90-80 and making Indiana coach Mike Davis’ resignation official despite getting only 14 points from Morrison.

With Indiana defenders draping themselves over Morrison — he of the scraggly, boyish mustache that has provided plenty of tournament snickers — J.P. Batista had 20 points and nine rebounds, Erroll Knight had 11 points and Sean Mallon had a career game with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

“People commit so many resources to stopping Adam that we try to play off that,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. “If you really watched us, you can see that he’s done a nice job of it, and the group has done a nice job of it.”

The victory got the third-seeded Bulldogs (29-3) out of the first weekend of the tournament for the first time since 2001, back when they were considered more plucky underdogs than the powerhouse they’ve become. Gonzaga was ranked in the top 10 all season and made the tournament for the eighth straight time.

“They were a third seed and they probably should have been a one seed,” Davis said. “They were the best three seed in the tournament for sure.”

And they knocked Indiana out, meaning Davis’ next task is to head back to Bloomington to clear out his office.

He announced his resignation last month, effective at the end of the season. The end came despite a super effort from the sixth-seeded Hoosiers (19-12), who nearly won this game from the 3-point line, scoring all but 10 of their 49 second-half points from there.

“My first thought was, I was just proud of the boys,” Davis said. “Don’t be sad for me. You should be happy for me because I had a great opportunity to coach one of the greatest schools in college basketball.”

MEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT RESULTS Saturday’s games ATLANTA REGIONAL Duke 74, George Washington 61 LSU 58, Texas A&M 57 Wichita State 80, Tennessee 73 MINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL Boston College 69, Montana 56 Florida 82, UW-Milwaukee 60 OAKLAND REGIONAL Gonzaga 90, Indiana 80 UCLA 62, Alabama 59 WASHINGTON D.C. REGIONAL Washington 67, Illinois 64

Next up for Gonzaga is UCLA in the Oakland Regional, where Morrison will have another chance to make his case as the best player in the country.

The junior forward certainly wasn’t great against Indiana.

“It’s not going to be my night every night,” Morrison said. “We still survive and win.”

He shot 5-for-17, marking only the sixth time this season he’s been held under 20 points. He was frustrated, much as he was in the first-round win against Xavier, and it boiled over early in the second half when he started jawing with Roderick Wilmont.

“Let’s not give us a lot of credit, OK,” Davis said. “Because he missed some shots today. He got a lot of looks. He still caught the ball.”

Morrison and Wilmont each got technicals after their tiff, though it was another T, 22 seconds later on Indiana center Marco Killingsworth, that completely changed this game.

The technical, right after a personal foul, gave Killingsworth four fouls and put him on the bench — turning Indiana’s strategy into a 3-or-nothing game. The Hoosiers hit a bunch — 13 to be exact — in the second half and kept the game within reach for most of it.

Robert Vaden went 6-for-13 from behind the line, Marshall Strickland went 6-for-9 and A.J. Ratliff went 3-for-7, along with doing a nice job on Morrison. For a brief moment, it looked as if Davis’ plan to trade 3-for-2 down the stretch might actually extend his stay at Indiana.

It wasn’t to be, though, and that was mainly because Indiana couldn’t stop Gonzaga’s wide assortment of long, lanky guys underneath.

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