The Gonzaga women’s basketball team has traded blows with each team it’s played in its first seven games. A five-minute stretch to open the second half, though, put the Bulldogs in an 11-point hole they couldn’t recover from Friday. Three …
Women’s basketball royalty swooped into Spokane recently to check on a friend. Paige Bueckers, who is quite familiar with the Lilac City, led UConn to another national championship last season. She was the toast of the regional tournament at Spokane …
It was a fantastic opening week for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team. The Bulldogs prefer starting a season at home. But they could not find any opponents to play at McCarthey Athletic Center last week so they had to arrange …
Gonzaga sophomore Allie Turner was one of 25 players named to the 2026 Becky Hammon Player of the Year Award preseason watch list, the organization announced Wednesday. Gonzaga’s Yvonne Ejim won the award in 2024. This year’s watch list includes …
Yvonne Ejim, the reigning two-time WCC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year at Gonzaga, has been selected as the West Coast Conference’s nominee for the 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, the school announced Wednesday. …
As far as her former coach is concerned, Heather Bowman has a rock-solid place in Gonzaga women’s basketball history. “There’s not a Mount Rushmore of Gonzaga women’s basketball that doesn’t include Heather Bowman,” Kelly Graves said. In the shortest recruiting …
The Chicago Sky family has a new addition: Jana Christine Vandersloot Quigley, the daughter of captain Courtney Vandersloot and longtime star Allie Quigley. The couple welcomed their first daughter on April 8, according to People magazine. Jana is named for …
Will Graves is in select company. The former Gonzaga walk-on has gone to three of the last six Final Fours, one as a son, one as a player and one as a graduate assistant. There are no official records kept of individuals with that background, but it is safe to say it cannot be a long list.
The Colorado and Gonzaga women’s basketball teams share several similarities. Coming into the season, both teams had big roster restructures. Colorado brought in 10 new players, Gonzaga added four from the transfer portal along with three signers. Each team had …
Former Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves has coached a Final Four and four Elite Eight teams, and a potential NCAA champion whose shot was taken away by the pandemic. But to many in women’s college basketball, Graves is Bracket Killer Kelly.
If there’s a consolation prize in college basketball, then the Gonzaga women received it Sunday. The Bulldogs were selected to the 32-team Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament which begins Thursday. No. 4 seed Gonzaga (22-10) entertains University of Texas San Antonio …
LAS VEGAS – The kindest way to say it is the Gonzaga women’s basketball got out-executed at the end. The Zags know it, everybody at Orleans Arena saw it and there’s no reason to be more pointed. It happened against …
The Zags are finally at full strength heading into the West Coast Conference Tournament. Two-time WCC Player of the Year Yvonne Ejim has led the Zags in scoring at 20.7 points per game and true freshman point guard Allie Turner, who has been impressive since the season’s opening tip, is the second-leading scorer at 13.3 ppg.
It was an aha moment. It often happens during recruiting, and there’s usually a twist or turn with every recruiting development. Case in point is Gonzaga freshman point guard Allie Turner of St. Louis. She wasn’t anywhere on the Gonzaga …
Lisa Fortier almost apologized to the fans for what they witnessed in the first three quarters Saturday afternoon at McCarthey Athletic Center. Then the Washington State and Gonzaga women’s basketball teams registered a classic finish and rewarded the sellout crowd …
Lisa Fortier has said many insightful things the past five years about Yvonne Ejim. The Gonzaga women’s basketball coach was succinct and appropriate in a statement she shared about the player who at the time was 15 points away from …
And then there was one. What had been a six-team logjam at the top of the West Coast Conference women’s basketball two weeks ago is no more. The team sitting alone at the top comes as no surprise. Gonzaga was …
A look at Gonzaga’s women’s basketball roster shows an impending hole at forward for the 2025-26 roster. The Zags will have just one returning scholarship forward on their roster – Minnesota transfer McKynnlie Dalan, a 6-foot sophomore from Montesano, a …
Jenn and LeeAnne Wirth have always been famous in Spokane as the identical twins who played Division I basketball at Gonzaga University. Following their graduation in 2021, they became so much more than that. Little did they know that not …
Lisa Fortier isn’t looking for perfection. That would be an unrealistic expectation with her Gonzaga basketball team this season. But in a word, Fortier’s Bulldogs were better Monday. Small victories coupled with on-court wins will suffice at the moment. Showing …
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