Kevin Pangos and Sam Dower Jr. made the All-WCC first-team but regular-season champion Gonzaga was blanked on the four major individual awards. Przemek Karnowski was honorable mention.

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Gonzaga's best chances individually were Mark Few for coach of the year and Karnowski for defensive player of the year. WCC coaches opted for San Francisco's Rex Walters for the coaching honor over Few, who kept GU on track despite injuries to its top three scorers early in the conference season. Walters guided USF to a tie for second place (the Dons were picked fourth in the preseason poll), but his methods have been called into question in a Contra Costa Times article.

Karnowski anchored a defense that ranked first in WCC play in scoring defense (61.6). Lane led the WCC in blocked shots. The Waves rank sixth in scoring defense (72.8).

"He’s a real problem solver when you can put him in there and not require any help," Few said of Karnowski. "He's protected the rim as good as we've had in a long time. Our guards turned a lot of guys loose at the rim and he was able to master staying vertical and affecting shots by the guards. And through long sections of the league he stayed out of foul trouble."