NCAA basketball

Grant Hill has been traveling quite a bit, presenting players, coaches and staff with Olympic rings in recognition of USA Basketball’s gold medal performance at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. The latest stop brought Hill to the McCarthey Athletic Center to deliver a ring to Gonzaga coach Mark Few just minutes before Thursday's tip-off against San Francisco. Few joined Tyronn Lue and Erik Spoelstra as assistants on Steve Kerr’s staff. Only the players received gold medals.

Three observations from Gonzaga’s 88-77 win over San Francisco on Thursday at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Your casual Idaho basketball fan divides Kolton Mitchell’s career as BNC and ANC – Before Northern Colorado and After Northern Colorado, when Mitchell scored 25 points and made a 30-foot last-second winning shot against the Big Sky Conference-leading Bears Jan. 23 that became an ESPN play of the day.

Once Gonzaga players returned to the locker room after pulling away for a 20-point win over Loyola Marymount last Thursday, it probably took only a minute or two for word to spread about another result in the West Coast Conference.

Another day, another watch list for Gonzaga women’s basketball star Yvonne Ejim.

Turns out former Gonzaga wing Julian Strawther will be busy this weekend. Strawther, who has assumed a bigger role in his second season with the Denver Nuggets, was named to replace Portland’s Scoot Henderson at the Rising Stars event Friday, part of NBA All-Star festivities this weekend in San Francisco.

San Francisco’s starting backcourt features three appealing options for Thursday’s key matchup, with senior Malik Thomas, senior Marcus Williams and freshman Tyrone Riley IV all in the midst of stellar seasons for the Dons.

Ryan Nembhard’s recent accomplishments have placed the point guard at the top of Gonzaga’s record book and haven’t gone unnoticed nationally.

Gonzaga’s 11-game winning streak started after arguably its worse collapse of the season.

The preliminaries are pretty much over for Gonzaga. The Zags begin a pivotal six-game stretch to close the regular season, featuring two Quad 2 contests and three Quad 1s according to current NET rankings. It’s their chance to prove they should wear white uniforms as the higher seed in the NCAA Tournament’s opening round. Or perhaps tiptoe into March Madness as a double-digit seed for the first time since 2016. Or perhaps miss the Big Dance for the first time since 1999.

Gonzaga's defense took care of business in wins over Loyola Marymount and Pacific last week.

Oregon stumbles in the month it once dominated.

An unbeaten week against a pair of middle- to lower-tier West Coast Conference opponents didn’t necessarily help Gonzaga’s chances of returning to the Associated Press Top 25, nor did it impact the Zags in various metrics or analytic rankings that’ll be used in a month’s time to select the NCAA Tournament field.

In his first season of professional basketball, Anton Watson can’t think of a better situation.

Bigger tests await, but Gonzaga’s defense has strung together several A’s since hitting the reset button after giving up 97 points in overtime and 103 points in regulation in consecutive West Coast Conference losses to Oregon State and Santa Clara. Saturday’s 78-61 victory over Pacific was the latest example as the Tigers needed a late scoring binge to crack 60 points and nudge their shooting percentage to 40%.

SEATTLE – The Washington men’s basketball team squandered a 14-point lead in the second half and trailed by four in the final four minutes before rallying to claim a hard-fought 76-71 victory over Northwestern.

PULLMAN – In moments tough and easy, David Riley leans on Ethan Price for his basketball abilities and more.

STOCKTON, Calif. – Here are three observations from Gonzaga’s 78-61 West Coast Conference win over Pacific on Saturday at the Spanos Center.

STOCKTON, Calif. – Noah and Dennis Callahan, two Gonzaga fans from nearby Walnut Creek, California, showed up to their courtside seats at the Alex Spanos Center with seven white cards, each marked with a blue Sharpie.