NCAA basketball

Not unlike Gonzaga, Nicholls State has relied on a balanced attack this season, with multiple players capable of stepping up and carrying the offensive torch on any given night for a team that’s won five consecutive games.

There’s no place like home – and perhaps no better time to be back there for Gonzaga’s basketball team.

A team can’t get enough of them and a team can get too many of them.

The 13th-ranked Zags and No. 18 UCLA will meet at 1 p.m. in the first college game at the Intuit Dome, the Los Angeles Clippers’ new venue.

Jeremy Jones took the long road home. After seeing action for Gonzaga basketball from 2016 to 2019, Jones ventured abroad, spending five seasons playing professionally in Austria, Germany and Japan. Now 28, he's back home in Texas with Rio Grande Valley (RGV), the Houston Rockets’ affiliate in the NBA G League. 

From staff reports

UConn freshman forward Liam McNeeley has literally walked in Drew Timme’s shoes. And wore Timme’s old T-shirts.

After losing consecutive games for the first time since 2018-19, Gonzaga took another hit in the Associated Press Top 25 rankings, dropping five spots to No. 13 after Saturday’s 77-71 loss to Connecticut at Madison Square Garden.

From staff reports

MOSCOW, Idaho – Idaho closes its 2024 home schedule on a monumentally frustrating note.

NEW YORK CITY – Determined to shake off a slow first half against Connecticut, Graham Ike returned to the court at halftime to warm up his shot. The forward retrieved a basketball, planted himself a few feet from the hoop and started working through his portfolio of low-post moves.

Sometimes, the simplest description is the best. That simple thought popped into our head about the 10th time Jason Benetti pointed out the obvious Saturday night.

PULLMAN – It took Washington State about two hours to polish off a convincing win over Missouri State on Saturday afternoon.

Eastern Washington women’s basketball coach Joddie Gleason knew it would be difficult to contain the reigning West Coast Conference Player of the Year.

NEW YORK – After beating Gonzaga 77-71 on Saturday night, Connecticut coach Dan Hurley told a room of reporters he wouldn’t mind negotiating a new nonconference series with Mark Few’s program, or extending the one that just concluded in front of 18,900 passionate fans at historic Madison Square Garden.

UConn led by three points at halftime, capitalized on Graham Ike’s worst offensive outing in a Gonzaga uniform and stymied the Bulldogs down the stretch to come out with a 77-71 victory in New York City.

Saturday was Gonzaga senior Khalif Battle’s first time playing at Madison Square Garden, but the New Jersey native watched as many NBA games as he could at one of the world’s most famous arenas. He made the most of his debut performance at MSG, draining four 3-pointers and matching his season-high of 21 points in No. 8 Gonzaga’s 77-71 loss to No. 18 UConn.

NEW YORK – Here are three observations from No. 8 Gonzaga’s 77-71 loss to No. 18 Connecticut on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

Brigham Young took over in the third quarter Friday for a 72-57 win over Washington State in a nonconference game at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman.