Gonzaga players and coaches deserve credit for the defensive adjustments they made toward the end of the 2024-25 season, allowing the Zags to transform from a group that was painful to watch at times into one that finished inside the top 30 of KenPom’s defensive efficiency ratings.
Gonzaga’s choppy start during Monday’s season opener against Texas Southern had nothing on the starting lineup fiasco that occurred minutes before tipoff at McCarthey Athletic Center. The evening’s first slip-up could be attributed to an unnamed Gonzaga assistant, who accidentally …
Gonzaga’s streak of season-opening wins never seemed to be in real jeopardy Monday night, even if it did take the Zags slightly longer than expected to shake off cobwebs and dial in their outside shooting. The Zags still haven’t lost …
The Gonzaga basketball team will likely juggle several lineups as it sorts through a versatile, talented roster that goes nearly a dozen deep. Our podcast lineup appears a little more certain. Zags Basketball Insiders Jim Meehan and Richard Fox returned …
Tyon Grant-Foster, whose eligibility was in doubt until a Spokane judge ruled in his favor last Monday at a preliminary injunction hearing, quickly moved into the starting lineup and had a strong debut.
For awhile in the first half, Gonzaga’s bench was hanging close to the starters in the scoring column and helped the Zags break open a tight game through the first 12 minutes.
Graham Ike was named to another preseason watch list hours before Gonzaga’s 2025-26 season tipped off at McCarthey Athletic Center. Ike was one of 50 players, and the only Gonzaga player, named to the watch list for the Naismith Trophy, …
Gonzaga basketball hosts Texas Southern
After securing four commitments last month, Gonzaga continues to make headway with some of the top high school prospects in the country. Gene Roebuck, a four-star small forward and the No. 1-rated player in the state of California in the …
If the seven- to eight-month period that constitutes college basketball’s offseason feels like an eternity, try putting yourself in the shoes of Gonzaga’s Steele Venters, Braeden Smith and Jalen Warley.
Mark Few suggested he hadn’t cracked open a scouting report for Gonzaga’s first regular-season opponent after the team’s exhibition game against Western Oregon. Understandable considering everything Few was juggling at the moment, between getting the Zags ready for their preseason …
Every sport has its tortured fan bases: the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Seattle Mariners. College basketball, with so many more teams than any professional league and a postseason that maximizes heartbreaking drama, claims a bevy of haunted fan bases, as well.
They may not have been putting Expo marker to dry-erase board just yet, but Gonzaga coaches probably began mulling potential lineups and rotations once the 2025-26 roster began taking shape in April and May.
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.
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.
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.
College basketball coaches aren’t ones for uncertainty. Most prefer to know exactly what they have entering a new season, rather than learning through a series of high-pressure nonconference games and multi-team events (MTEs) early in the year. When you’re still …
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. Not immune to the changing tides of college basketball, the conference will …
From Archbishop Carroll High in northwest Philadelphia, it’s almost a straight shot – so close in proximity, locals might measure the distance in terms of city blocks rather than miles.
It was a double watch list day for Gonzaga’s Graham Ike. The senior forward was named to the 20-player watch list for the NABA Division I Player of the Year Award on Thursday morning. Hours later, Ike landed on the …
Gonzaga vs. San Francisco, Jan. 24
Gametime: 5 p.m.
Location: McCarthey Athletic Center
On TV: CBS Sports
On Radio: 590-AM