As Mark Few’s coaching accolades accumulated over the years, this ultimate honor seemed increasingly inevitable. That doesn’t lessen the enormity of the recognition. Reports leaked out Tuesday that the Gonzaga men’s basketball coach will be among the 2026 Naismith Basketball …
SAN JOSE, Calif. – For the second time in his career, Tommy Lloyd will take on the Final Four in Indianapolis with a No. 1-seeded NCAA Tournament team. Five years after traveling to Lucas Oil Stadium with an unbeaten Gonzaga …
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Tommy Lloyd’s name has been linked to one of the premier coaching jobs in college basketball. That probably wasn’t news to the former Gonzaga assistant by the time he arrived at SAP Center for media obligations …
Richard Fox and yours truly brought statistics to the last Zags Insiders Podcast of the season, centered around the impact of Braden Huff’s injury on Gonzaga’s 31-4 season. The numbers reflected what our eyes told us, but they were eye-opening, …
PORTLAND – It’s been the year of the freshman in college basketball, but Gonzaga’s youth movement didn’t arrive in earnest until the final months of a season that culminated with 31 wins, a 23rd West Coast Conference Tournament championship and 28th straight NCAA Tournament bid.
PORTLAND – Mark Few was still processing what happened in the final moments of a 74-68 loss to Texas. Processing the end of another 30-win season. Mainly processing that he’d just coached a group of six seniors for the final …
If you ever needed a reason to stay off social media, take this as Exhibit A. After Gonzaga exited the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in a Round of 32 loss to Texas, a question from the sports betting company FanDuel …
PORTLAND – Sean Miller kept pushing the right coaching buttons, starting with a momentum-changing sequence late in the first half. Freshman Davis Fogle hit a nifty pull-up jumper to give Gonzaga its biggest lead, 28-20, when the Texas coach called …
The third-seeded Zags learned it took an eight-point lead in the first half but failed to come up with the stops they needed in the second half of a 74-68 season-ending loss at the Moda Center.
PORTLAND – Of the many hundred dunks Graham Ike has slammed in his career, this one seemed special. Exclamatory. Defiant. And extraordinarily timely. Maybe even career-defining. Forty seconds remained in the NCAA second-round game Saturday night, and Graham Ike and …
PORTLAND – Gonzaga had gone 10 years without losing to a double-digit seed at the NCAA Tournament. The Zags went 39 minutes, 46 seconds without giving up a field goal to Camden Heide on Saturday afternoon. Players and coaches may …
The end of the line in the NCAA Tournament comes swiftly and often cruelly, especially when a winnable game isn’t decided until the closing seconds. And so it was for Gonzaga, which saw its hopes of advancing to the Sweet 16 fade away when Camden Heide hit his only shot of the game with just under 15 seconds left to seal the Texas Longhorns’ 74-68 upset victory.
Texas only made five 3-pointers, but they came at opportune times. Jordan Pope, an Oregon State transfer, hit late triples with 5:30 and 2:36 remaining, the latter extending the Longhorns lead to 69-64.
PORTLAND – It would take extensive research to compile a full list of the coaches who’ve faced Gonzaga at three different schools, but Texas’ Sean Miller is joining what’s presumed to be a very small club when his 11th-seeded Longhorns take on the third-seeded Zags on Saturday in the NCAA Tournament Round of 32.
PORTLAND – Experience can play a big role once you get to the NCAA Tournament. Or it can be a complete nonfactor. In Thursday’s 73-64 victory over Kennesaw State, Gonzaga got contributions from players with anywhere from two to eight …
PORTLAND – We had the key matchup space ready for AJ Dybantsa. We’re handing it off to another long, athletic, jack-of-all trades wing that’s populated NBA Draft boards for the last five months.
PORTLAND – It’s true, there are certain Cinderella components to the unlikely run Gonzaga’s next opponent has made over the last four to five days at the NCAA Tournament. Tension going into Selection Sunday? Texas dealt with it for the …
Over the years, critics of the Zags have claimed that a weak conference contributed to their consistent collection of tournament bids. Even if true, the success once in the tournament (two title games, three Elite 8s, eight Sweet 16s) invalidates those beliefs.
If the third-seeded Zags (31-3) are to return to the Sweet 16 after a one-year absence, Ike’s matchup with talented Texas center Matas Vokietaitis probably needs to go Gonzaga’s way.