NCAA basketball

LAS VEGAS – Jaylen Wells spent the better part of two quarters searching for his shot.

Editors note: This is the second story in a five-part summer series about the Gonzaga women’s basketball program. The series continues through Aug. 1.

Gonzaga will be returning to a familiar venue to face a familiar opponent on the second Saturday of December.

Two years ago, the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas filled up early and quickly for Victor Wembanyama’s heavily anticipated NBA Summer League debut with the San Antonio Spurs.

Weeks after helping the Oklahoma City Thunder capture the franchise’s NBA title, former Gonzaga standout Chet Holmgren has been rewarded with a five-year maximum rookie contract.

Kelly Olynyk’s time with the Washington Wizards organization has come to an end after two weeks and zero games played.

Ben Gregg will get his first taste of professional basketball later this week as a member of the Boston Celtics' NBA Summer League roster, but the Gonzaga forward will start his career in earnest this fall as a member of France-based SIG Strasbourg.

Without the academic responsibilities, social opportunities and NIL obligations that typically arrive in August with the beginning of a new semester, Gonzaga basketball players are able to kick back and decompress during summer months in ways they can’t the rest of the year.

Without access to practice footage, team meetings or individual workouts, college basketball fans looking for offseason progress reports on their favorite teams normally have to rely on the word of players and coaches.

It shouldn’t take too long to locate a member of Gonzaga’s starting backcourt at NBA Summer League in Las Vegas later this week.

Graham Ike approached the most important question of his offseason, and by virtue, Gonzaga’s offseason, with a level of patience, thoughtfulness and maturity one might expect from someone who’s accumulated five years’ worth of experiences – career-threatening injuries, NCAA Tournament glory and everything in between – on a college basketball court.

Four months after their college careers culminated on the same NCAA Tournament floor in Wichita, Kansas, former Gonzaga guards Ryan Nembhard and Nolan Hickman will be on the court together next week in Las Vegas when their professional careers unofficially begin at NBA Summer League.

Editors note: We begin a series of weekly summer stories taking a look at the Gonzaga women’s basketball team and what’s ahead in 2025-26. The Zags began workouts Monday. NCAA rules allow four hours of practice a week spread over six weeks.

PULLMAN – As Washington State looks to complete its roster for the upcoming basketball season, the program is adding some experience.

Steele Venters has had his share of medical consultations the past two years, many of which the 24-year-old Gonzaga wing probably wouldn’t care to revisit.

Former Washington State assistant John Andrzejek will return to the Inland Northwest in December, this time as the first-year head coach of a Campbell team that’s scheduled to visit Gonzaga as part of its nonconference schedule.

SEATTLE – Forty-five years after leaving the West Coast Conference, Seattle University is back in the WCC, becoming an official member Tuesday.

Let’s say you’ve been working a job you love for as long as you remember while making $150K a year doing it. It’s the life you’ve known, the reality you’ve embraced — the future you were depending on.

Corey Kispert’s antenna stays up this time of year, no different than any other NBA player trying to monitor and follow the endless trail of trades and transactions that usually keep front offices occupied and fans engaged during the league’s free-agency period.