Cade Orness, a prolific prep scorer who set the career points record during his time at North Kitsap High School, is joining Gonzaga's roster as a walk-on next season.
After working to replace six players who graduated, left school for the NBA or transferred away from Gonzaga last offseason, Mark Few and his coaching staff shouldn’t have to spend as much time rebuilding or retooling the Bulldogs’ roster this summer.
PULLMAN – In late March, a day before former Washington State athletics director Pat Chun left for the same job at rival Washington, David Riley got a phone call.
Gonzaga coach Mark Few relayed numerous stories to his players and staff about his experiences as an assistant with USA Basketball last summer at the FIBA World Cup.Few should have another fresh batch of stories to tell next season’s Zags after spending time with the U.S. team at the Paris Olympics this summer.
Gonzaga has been in the top 10 in a bunch of way-too-early college basketball preseason polls so it makes sense the Bulldogs would be projected as a high seed. GU checked in as a two seed in the West Region in ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s first bracket projection,
With Dan Monson’s hiring at Eastern Washington, the Inland Northwest basketball environment further closed into a flat circle, a hoop, perhaps, with common elements woven and connected like nylon netting.
