NCAA basketball

LAS VEGAS — Kyle Smith is one of the nation's best coaches.

Next season’s Gonzaga-UConn game at Madison Square Garden has been on the books for close to two years. Now there’s a date to go with it. The Zags and Huskies will square off for the third straight season on Saturday, Dec. 14.

LAS VEGAS — For a brief moment in Washington State’s win over Stanford, a 79-62 blowout Thursday for a spot in Friday’s Pac-12 Tournament semifinals, Andrej Jakimovski disappeared like a ghost, vanishing into the locker room.

Washington State’s Rueben Chinyelu rebounds against Stanford in the first half of Thursday’s Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal in Las Vegas.

Second-seeded Cougars cruise past the Cardinal. Await winner of Utah-Colorado for tomorrow night's semifinal, where WSU will have a chance of making its first Pac-12 Tournament championship game.

Scheduling was one of many topics/issues that Jackson discussed in something of a state-of-the-WCC address earlier this week at the conference tournament in Las Vegas.

Kyle Smith tends to wander when he talks. Washington State’s head coach might start talking about one player, then veer into chatting about another, then swing right into waxing poetic about the weather.

LAS VEGAS – Tuesday’s West Coast Conference Tournament championship had many of the normal components of a typical Gonzaga-Saint Mary’s game.

LAS VEGAS – The Mike Hopkins era came to an end in a game that resembled his mercurial seven-year tenure as the Washington men’s basketball coach.

Jacinta Buckley posted a double-double and Eastern Washington regrouped on defense after a shaky first quarter to beat Northern Arizona 73-64 in the Big Sky Tournament Championship. The win secured Eastern Washington's first berth in the NCAA Tournament since 1987.

Portland women’s basketball coach Michael Meeks predicts more wins to come for Gonzaga.

Andrew Nembhard is having another solid season with Indiana, his second in the NBA after the Pacers selected him in the second round of the 2022 NBA Draft. Through 52 games (31 starts), the former Gonzaga Bulldogs guard is averaging 9 points, 2 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game.

LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga entered the 2023-24 season in unusual territory, picked second in the West Coast Conference preseason poll by the conference’s nine coaches.

For Smith and Co. it’s already been a transcendent season. But how many more times will these Cougs sing?

PULLMAN – Andrej Jakimovski, the Washington State senior wing responsible for much of his team’s run this season, is on the mend from the shoulder injury he’s played through the past three games.

LAS VEGAS – If you could spare a little sriracha sauce for me, it might help the crow go down a little better.

Once more for … what exactly? Pride? A banner? Seeding?

LAS VEGAS – History hates to be ignored.

LAS VEGAS – On Feb. 28, the Gonzaga women’s basketball team throttled the Portland Pilots by 50 points on Senior Night.