DENVER — Mark Few stood outside the Gonzaga locker room Saturday after his Bulldogs had mopped the court with yet another opponent from a supposedly stronger conference.

Few’s 11th-seeded Bulldogs had routed Utah, a third seed out of the Pacific-12, by 82-59.

On Thursday, Gonzaga, from the West Coast Conference, defeated the Big East champion, Seton Hall, by 68-52, a victory that in some ways was made more surprising because of what the Pirates represented.

With a late-season run and a program dominated by New York City players, Seton Hall became a symbol of a reconfigured, resurgent Big East, where basketball is once again king.

Few had monitored the rebuilding process after the Big East’s disastrous flirtation with football decimated what was perhaps the nation’s pre-eminent basketball conference. Like so many basketball purists who admired the Big East, Few was disappointed by the league’s football-related implosion.