NCAA basketball

Gonzaga officially added German combo guard Jack Kayil to its recruiting class on Wednesday, meaning all three players who previously committed to Mark Few’s program have now signed binding agreements with the Zags.

DALLAS – Michael Ajayi only spent one season at Gonzaga, a year in which he averaged just 6.5 points and 5.4 rebounds as he struggled to find a consistent role after transferring from Pepperdine.

Gonzaga’s 72-point win over Southern Utah did more than give Mark Few’s team a shot of confidence entering a tough stretch of games next week at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.

Drew Timme averaged 23.9 points and 10.3 rebounds in 29 games with the G League Long Island Nets last season before moving up to play with the NBA team in Brooklyn for the final nine games of the season.

Gonzaga’s Graham Ike is one of 50 players the Wooden Award’s selection committee will be keeping tabs on throughout the 2025-26 college basketball season.

Gonzaga’s fast start has propelled the Zags to No. 13 in the Associated Press poll, eight spots higher than their preseason ranking.

After 301 games, one of the oldest rivalries in NCAA history may have ended Friday night following Washington’s 81-69 nonconference victory against Washington State at Beasley Coliseum.

After the first seven minutes one might have assumed it was Southern Utah, not Gonzaga, playing its fourth game in nine days.

Even though Straton Rogers was playing his first home game at Eastern Washington, the opponent he and the Eagles faced on Monday night at Reese Court was a familiar one.

Gonzaga’s final chance to tune things up before a three-game gantlet next week at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas went about as well as Mark Few and company could’ve hoped.

An in-depth glance at Mario Saint-Supery’s stat line showed a close race between his field goals made (five), steals (six) and assists (seven). The freshman point guard from Spain made his debut in Gonzaga’s starting lineup Monday and the numbers certainly added up.

Here are three observations at the buzzer following No. 13 Gonzaga’s 122-50 rout over Southern Utah on Monday at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

Gonzaga's Graham Ike was named West Coast Conference player of the week on Monday after coming up with a pair of 20-point games in two Zags' victories.

Barbara Few, the mother of 27th-year Gonzaga coach Mark Few, died Friday , according to posts from the school’s social media accounts.

The question wasn’t if Gonzaga would move up in the Associated Press college basketball rankings after two convincing wins over power conference opponents. It was a matter of how high the Bulldogs would climb.

Lisa Fortier looked at the final statistics and was shocked that they showed Stanford with just eight fast-break points.

Jaiden Feroah’s never visited McCarthey Athletic Center, but Southern Utah’s top scorer and rebounder has a strong track record in the state of Washington, and might be able to provide a quality geography lesson on the Pacific Northwest from two years playing in the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC).

After four games and four double-digit wins, No. 19 Gonzaga hasn’t wasted time establishing who and what it wants to be in 2025-26.

Idaho squandered a 10-point halftime lead as UC San Diego dominated the second period, turning back the visiting Vandals 75-67 on Saturday afternoon in a nonconference game at LionTree Arena in La Jolla, California.