If the team from Gonzaga thumps Kentucky by 35 points one week, and then looks to stretch its all-time advantage over UCLA to 8-3 the next week, it’s fair to question the contemporary relevance of the term “Blue Bloods” in regard to men’s college basketball. And if you beat the basketball aristocracy more often than not over a span of 25 years, shouldn’t you also be a part of such conversation?
Gonzaga remained third in the AP college basketball poll, but that could change by next week depending on how the Zags perform over three games at the Battle 4 Atlantis. GU gained some ground on No. 2 UConn in the rankings – and that was before the Huskies suffered their first loss, 99-97, to unranked Memphis in a Maui Invitational opener.
Gonzaga didn’t make the biggest jump in the first regular-season AP college basketball poll, but it’s 2-0 start certainly garnered national attention. The Zags moved up two spots to No. 4 after pummeling No. 8 Baylor 101-63 in the season opener and handling Arizona State 88-80 on Sunday.
Several hours before the fireworks shows started on the Fourth of July, Gonzaga made some noise in its 2025 recruiting class. Davis Fogle, a 6-foot-7, 185-pound shooting guard ranked as high as No. 31 nationally by one recruiting service, committed to the Bulldogs on Thursday.
Gonzaga has been in the top 10 in a bunch of way-too-early college basketball preseason polls so it makes sense the Bulldogs would be projected as a high seed. GU checked in as a two seed in the West Region in ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s first bracket projection,
Pride and disappointment, the latter enters every locker room except one after the 67 games of an NCAA Tournament, were on display Friday as Gonzaga players processed a season-ending 80-68 loss to Purdue.
Gonzaga has led Division I in scoring offense each of the last five seasons, but that streak will soon come to an end. Yup, the Zags have slumped all the way to seventh at 85.0 points per game.