No. 9 Zags head to rival Saint Mary’s for final WCC game | Live updates
Second half
7:27 - SM 54, GU 46: Davis Fogle makes a reverse layup to cut into the Gaels’ lead.
8:51 - SM 54, GU 44: Saint Mary’s goes on a 10-0 run to open up its largest lead of the game.
Lewis is up to 22 points.
11:59 - SM 44, GU 40: After the initial flurry by Saint Mary’s, offense has stalled in the second half.
Neither team has scored in over two minutes.
17:01 - SM 42, GU 38: Saint Mary’s open’s the half on a 13-2 run to take a four-point lead.
Mikey Lewis leads all scorers with 15 points.
Halftime
Gonzaga holds a 36-29 advantage over Saint Mary’s at halftime.
The trio of Ike, Miller and Grant-Foster has paced the Zags with 30 of their team’s 36 points.
Gonzaga has employed its trademark stingy defense, holding Saint Mary’s to 29% shooting in the first half.
GU also holds a 16-6 advantage in paint points.
First half
0:45 - GU 36, SM 29: GU stretches its lead to 10 points before Mantas Juzenas makes a 3-pointer.
2:51 - GU 31, SM 26: Ike has a team-high 10 points with two made 3-pointers.
Tyon Grant-Foster has complemented Ike’s scoring with eight points of his own.
7:16 - GU 24, SM 18: Gonzaga has played inspired defense in the first half, holding Saint Mary’s to 27% shooting so far.
The Zags have also limited the Gaels to four paint points.
11:38 - GU 14, SM 11: Graham Ike and Adam Miller have paced the Zags with five and seven points, respectively.
15:57 - GU 4, SM 3: Gonzaga holds an early advantage, although, both teams are struggling to find an offensive rhythm.
The Zags are 2 for 8 and the Gaels are 1 for 7.
Starting 5s
Gonzaga: Mario Saint-Supery, Adam Miller, Emmanuel Innocenti, Tyon Grant-Foster, Graham Ike.
Saint Mary’s: Joshua Dent, Mikey Lewis, Dillan Shaw, Paulius Murauskas, Harry Wessels.
Pregame
Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s will etch the final chapter in a rivalry within the West Coast Conference that’s spanned decades.
The Zags (28-2, 16-1) and the Gaels (26-4, 15-2) meet in Moraga tonight at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN with a chance for the visitors to secure an outright West Coast Conference regular-season championship before departing for the new Pac-12 next season.
Saint Mary’s will try and score one last upset to force a share of the league title before the WCC Tournament begins next week in Las Vegas. Win or lose, Gonzaga will be the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament and won’t play until the semifinals on March 9.
Gonzaga will be playing shorthanded tonight. With high-scoring forward Braden Huff already out with a knee injury, Gonzaga announced that Jalen Warley will miss his second consecutive game with a quad contusion.
More of a scoring load will fall on Graham Ike as well as the Zags’ complementary players.
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