NCAA basketball

In mid-December, the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team went on a tear that included a program-record 10-game winning streak that boosted the Eagles into first place in the Big Sky.

Dominick Harris, in his own words, wanted to lean on his Loyola Marymount teammates and coaches to help settle the emotions that would inherently come with a long-awaited return to Gonzaga.

NOLAN HICKMAN

Gonzaga didn’t convert on every LMU miscue, but 16 of the Zags’ first 25 points were courtesy of turnovers.

PULLMAN – Kyle Smith isn’t one to ignore the noise. Washington State’s head coach acknowledges that with every big game his team wins, every Quadrant 1 victory the Cougars secure, they inch closer to breaking a decade-long drought.

Domantas Sabonis is churning out double-doubles faster than an In-N-Out Burger. After the Sacramento big man put up 17 points and 11 rebounds in a 120-115 victory at Dallas on Saturday, he followed up with a monster 20-point, 26-rebound effort in the Kings' 103-94 win at Memphis on Monday – his 28th straight double-double game.

Gonzaga didn’t convert on every LMU miscue, but 16 of the Zags’ first 25 points were courtesy of turnovers. It fueled Gonzaga’s early double-digit lead that turned into a 92-58 West Coast Conference blowout Tuesday at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

It's about as close to a must-win as the Gonzaga Bulldogs have faced this season.

Gonzaga forward Yvonne Ejim earned her fifth West Coast Conference Player of the Week award on Monday.

Graham Ike's monster second halves against San Francisco and Pacific helped Gonzaga secure two key wins in West Coast Conference play. They also helped the junior forward secure his first WCC Player of the Week honor Monday afternoon.

Arizona on top, WSU surges as road teams flounder (we have the data).

PULLMAN — Myles Rice keeps racking up the accolades.

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.