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College basketball got a taste of the Graham Ike-Braden Huff lineup in 2024-25, but Gonzaga’s bigs are just getting started

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

Any scouting report for Gonzaga in 2025-26 will begin with those two – likely Ike at the top and Huff occupying a space right below. There won’t be many ways around, over or through the Zags’ prolific frontcourt duo this season, and even if you are prepared for the multitude of duck-ins, short rolls and two-man actions, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to shut down the entire operation.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Dave Boling: Meet three ex-Zags who were on the ground floor decades before GU’s move to the penthouse

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

The Zags will say goodbye to the WCC at the end of this season, joining the newly reconfigured Pacific-12 Conference. It should be a fond farewell, as the WCC has served them well. So well, in fact, that a consensus exists among three former Zags – from periods before and after and during the move out of the Big Sky: All agree, Gonzaga could never have reached its current elite status without first making that conference shift in 1979.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

WCAC move didn’t make big headlines, but became big deal for Gonzaga, basketball program

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

When Gonzaga received an invitation to join the West Coast Athletic Conference (WCAC) in Sept. 1978, it received a nine-paragraph, no-byline article at the bottom of The Spokesman-Review’s sports page.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Deep roster should help Gonzaga basketball offset a few unknowns

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

One thing that can’t be argued: this is the most unpredictable Gonzaga team in years, which also makes it one of the most intriguing.

Sports > EWU basketball

Dave Boling: Gonzaga should be great, but these days you need a lot more than a crystal ball to predict college hoops

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

As the Gonzaga men’s basketball team heads into the 2025 season, with a goodly number of unknown elements – like almost every other team – we’ll just settle on some ball-park assessments rather than an unfounded prediction.

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WCC preview: Change seems to be the only constant in league’s final year with Gonzaga

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

The West Coast Conference will be hard to recognize this time next year and may not look all that familiar this fall, even to its most dedicated followers.

Sports > Gonzaga women

Behind the inside-outside attack of Lauren Whittaker and Allie Turner, the sky’s the limit for Gonzaga women

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

It’s been said that the root of a basketball team’s success – whether high school, college or professional – begins at point guard and post. If that’s true, then the Gonzaga women are in good hands.

Sports > Gonzaga women

New-look Gonzaga women turn page after departure of Yvonne Ejim

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

If the Gonzaga women’s basketball team faced the possibility of taking a step back, it would seem that it could happen in the 2025-26 season. The Bulldogs are embracing the most turnover in coach Lisa Fortier’s career. More than half the team is new – including four transfers and three freshmen.

Sports > NCAA basketball

Women’s WCC preview: Expect parity to reign in conference full of unknowns

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

The West Coast Conference women’s basketball coaches emphatically tabbed Oregon State as the preseason favorite. Truth be told, though, there are at least five teams that could make a case for the crown.

Sports > WSU basketball

How WSU – featuring eight international players – used an overseas trip to build bonds both on, off the court

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

The players that Washington State coach David Riley and his assistants brought in don’t just look talented and versatile. They also have global experience, bringing knowledge from their years of basketball in their home countries to Pullman, where the Cougars will try to build on last year’s 19-15 season. The good news for the Cougars: Their international players don’t just know about local foods. They’ve also spent years battling their contemporaries back home.