The West Coast Conference took significant steps by adding Washington State and Oregon State as affiliate members for the next two years and the Western Athletic Conference’s Grand Canyon and Seattle as full members beginning in the 2025-26 season. The moves provide the WCC with stability as well as strength in numbers in case Gonzaga leaves for another conference down the road. The Zags have had multiple conversations with the Big 12 but those talks have cooled off with the conference expanding to 16 this fall with four former Pac-12 schools in the fold.

The two games remaining on the Gonzaga-Washington men’s basketball series are no longer on the schedule, Zags athletic director Chris Standiford confirmed.

Rasir Bolton posted impressive numbers and earned all-league honors during his first professional season in Europe.

Mark Few will have plenty on his plate when he links up with Team USA in Las Vegas a few weeks from now to start preparations for the Summer Olympics, but the Gonzaga coach shouldn’t have many concerns about the state of his program back in Spokane as he begins an international tour that includes stops in Abu Dhabi and London before a late-July arrival in Paris.

The expected addition of Senegal native Ismaila Diagne to Gonzaga’s basketball roster became official Tuesday. The agile, 7-foot post has signed a financial aid agreement and will join the Zags for the upcoming season, according to a Gonzaga release.

Approximately two weeks after Ismaila Diagne was initially linked to Gonzaga, the 7-foot Real Madrid center announced Monday on his social media platforms he’s signed with the Bulldogs, filling the 13th and final scholarship spot on Mark Few’s roster for 2024-25.

One of the stronger offseasons in recent memory could end with a major recruiting coup for Gonzaga.

Maybe it goes back even further, but this legacy of Monson fathers passing basketballs down to their sons at least traces back to Oscar “Swede” Monson, who coached at Menahga (Minn.) High School before World War II.

Updated forecast still ranks Alabama, Gonzaga at the top.

Gonzaga will be busy at the Battle 4 Atlantis when the inaugural Players Era Festival tips off in Las Vegas this November, but Mark Few’s program is reportedly one of eight more that will join a loaded 2025 field according to multiple reports Wednesday morning.

It won’t be long before Gonzaga and Washington State learn their full West Coast Conference schedules for the 2024-25 basketball season, but the Inland Northwest rivals can officially count on at least two games against one another next year, according to the conference pairings that were revealed Thursday.