NCAA basketball

Roughly a year ago, Dominick Harris was studying Gonzaga’s scouting report on Loyola Marymount. This week, Harris is at or near the top of GU’s scouting report on the Lions.

The biggest West Coast Conference week of the season thus far for Gonzaga arrives early and there’s plenty of interesting storylines. The Zags face their third game in six days with a quick turnaround against Loyola Marymount in a rare Tuesday matchup. LMU, as a 15-point underdog, pulled off a 68-67 upset last January that snapped Gonzaga’s 75-game winning streak at the McCarthey Athletic Center. The Lions’ top scorer, Dominick Harris, was in Gonzaga’s program for three years before transferring to LMU, about 90 miles from his hometown of Murrieta, California. And then there’s the first of two regular-season games against rival Saint Mary’s on Saturday.

The Washington State women’s basketball posted its biggest win in school history Sunday afternoon.

STOCKTON, Calif. – Mark Few didn’t necessarily need any more evidence to prove his 2023-24 Gonzaga Bulldogs won’t be able to cruise past West Coast Conference competition the same way many of his other teams have.

SEATTLE – Riding a two-game losing streak in which its defense was virtually nonexistent, the Huskies unleashed a week’s worth of frustration on Saturday night.

Gonzaga wasn’t having much luck behind the 3-point line most of the night.That, along with the fact two of Tigers’ biggest frontcourt players were battling foul trouble, was the main reason Pacific was content to sit in a 3-2 zone while the Bulldogs misfired from distance. Gonzaga finally found the range behind the 3-point arc just when it needed it later in the second half in pulling away from the Tigers 82-73 on Saturday at the Spanos Center in Stockton, California.

PULLMAN – Not long before Myles Rice got to the rim and iced another Washington State win, this time 78-69 over Colorado on Saturday afternoon, he collided with a Buffaloes player on a drive. He sustained a noticeable limp.

Gonzaga survived a challenge from the West Coast Conference’s bottom team, separating late for an 82-73 victory over the Pacific Tigers on Saturday evening at Alex G. Spanos Center.

The box score won’t show that the Gonzaga women’s basketball team overcame a physical opponent Saturday afternoon.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Getting a young team to believe in its capabilities has been perhaps the top priority for Idaho coach Alex Pribble as the Vandals have been regularly left in the dust in the second half by opponents during a losing streak that has reached seven games.

For all the excellent basketball the Eastern Washington men’s team has played this season, one line item stood as an outlier: rebounding.

From staff reports

From staff reports

STOCKTON, Calif. – Graham Ike and Anton Watson have been indispensable pieces for Gonzaga’s frontcourt this season. More than once, the Bulldogs have learned how fast things can snowball when the veteran forwards aren’t on the floor.

Ryan Nembhard

From staff reports

STOCKTON, Calif. – Facing a sound and sturdy team from San Francisco, offensive issues piled up for Gonzaga through the opening quarter of Thursday night’s West Coast Conference showdown in Spokane.

It's hard to imagine the 'Pac-2' would want nine Mountain West schools, much less all of them. Several are so lacking in competitive success and media value that they would weaken a rebuilt Pac-12.

STOCKTON, Calif. – Through 21 games this season, eight players have led Pacific in scoring and nine more in rebounding. At 6-15 overall and 0-6 in West Coast Conference play, the Tigers won’t give Gonzaga the same headaches they’ve encountered game planning for teams in the upper tier of the conference, but their offensive balance can still make things difficult, especially on short prep.