I put together a notebook, instead of an advance of Thursday’s Lewis-Clark State College game, that deals with Gonzaga’s tough non-conference schedule and its 3-point defense. Here’s a link.

A few other items from Tuesday’s media day. Keegan Hyland remains a spectator at practice following his concussion last month. He said he’ll be visiting the doctor again this week in hopes of being cleared.

Also, Gonzaga’s Demetri Goodson ranks ninth nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.88).

The AFL schedule was released Wednesday and Spokane learned that it will visit San Jose to open the 2011 season.

More here and here.

And more below.

I believe these (and others) have been mentioned here before, but GU has officially released five of its non-conference games (Illinois, WSU, Baylor, Oklahoma City and Memphis) for the upcoming season. More here.

The complete schedule will be released at a later date.

Spokane will entertain Milwaukee on Friday, April 2, in the inaugural game of the new AF1. Five more games are scheduled on April 3. Three teams in the 15-team AF1 have first-week byes.

Spokane has two bye weeks (Week 4 and Week 11). Shock home games are scheduled for 7 p.m. Spokane has home-and-home games against Milwaukee, Utah, Cleveland, Arizona and Jacksonville, and single games with Bossier-Shreveport, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Tulsa, Iowa and Chicago.

The Shock close the season at Orlando, home vs. Tulsa, at Milwaukee, home vs. Arizona, at Cleveland, at Iowa, home vs. Chicago and at Orlando — five long road trips in the last eight games.

AF1 has not announced division alignments or playoff formats. It would appear Spokane is in a division with Milwaukee, Utah, Arizona, Cleveland and Jacksonville, but remember that the Shock played Iowa twice last season and the two were in different af2 divisions. The schedule also indicates AF1 has a national television agreement, but there has been no official announcement.

Here’s the AF1 release.

Find the entire AF1 schedule below.

Gonzaga has released its 2009-10 schedule and it’s another demanding slate (Michigan State, the Maui Invitational, WSU, Wake Forest, Duke, Oklahoma and Illinois in the non-conference). Read on.