The final home game for Gonzaga seniors Robert Sacre and Marquise Carter arrives Monday night when Longwood visits the MAC. The Lancers are a Division I independent from Farmville, Va. joining the Big South Conference next year.

I chatted with both seniors and coach Mark Few after the USD game Saturday and put together this article for Monday's S-R.

In case you missed it earlier, here's my day-after San Diego post.

Back with some notes, quotes and impressions from Gonzaga’s first practice.

OK, we’ll leave the impressions to senior center Rob Sacre. More below. 

Back with a feature on junior guard Marquise Carter, who has been one of the primary reasons for Gonzaga's surge to a co-WCC title and conference championship. This will run in Tuesday's S-R, but here's a story link with more from Carter, his teammates and coach Mark Few on how the J.C. transfer turned around his season, and helped Gonzaga do the same.

Also, just received notice from Gonzaga's sports information department that GU has sold out its allotment of tickets for Thursday's game in Denver.

About to shut down the computer at the media room in the McCarthey Athletic Center, but before I do here's my game story and Dan Pelle's photo gallery from Gonzaga's 85-76 victory over Santa Clara.

I'll be back in the morning with a day-after post.

Back with a bit more on Marquise Carter. You can read it below.

UPDATE: Here’s GU’s release on Carter’s signing with a couple of Mark Few quotes.

Meanwhile, UW sophomore guard Elston Turner announced Thursday he’s transferring. Not sure if he’s interested in Gonzaga, but I would guess the Bulldogs are interested in Turner. GU is looking for a shooting guard and Turner certainly fits the bill. More on Turner here.

Junior college point guard Marquise Carter, who verbally committed to Gonzaga last week, appears to be having second thoughts. 

“You know, I just saw him about 30 minutes ago and I told him to get his act together,” Gene Bess, who coached Carter at Three Rivers Community College (Poplar Bluff, Mo.), said Wednesday afternoon. “I don’t like that. (Gonzaga) is a top 10 program and I don’t think he can beat that. He’s real evasive, real vague and he’s kind of avoiding the coaches here.”

Wednesday was the first day of the spring signing period.

Carter, who didn’t return a phone message, helped Three Rivers to a runner-up finish at the NJCAA Tournament. He averaged 17.9 points, 5.5 assists and 4.3 rebounds.

“My thinking is once you give your word that’s it, but I don’t have control over him at this point,” Bess said. “At our banquet the other night he was going to Gonzaga, but I don’t know what’s going on now.”

—Meanwhile, as we reported a couple weeks after he left Gonzaga at the semester break, Andy Poling is continuing his playing career at Seattle Pacific. More here.

Back with more on guard Marquise Carter, who verbally committed to Gonzaga earlier today. My unedited article is below.