TEMPE, Ariz. – Three takeaways from Gonzaga’s 77-65 win Friday over Arizona State mirrored three takeaways from the Zags’ first four games this season. The bigs, the boards and the bench have been constants for the 19th-ranked Zags. Rollercoaster night …
Luca Foster officially signed with Gonzaga on Wednesday and woke up Thursday to learn he was named to the Naismith Boys’ High School Player of the Year watch list. The four-star wing from Pennsylvania was one of 50 high school …
TEMPE, Ariz. – When he moved from Dakar, Senegal, to Madrid in 2022, Massamba Diop encountered the usual challenges that come with adjusting to life in a new continent, plus a few more that are more unique to playing high-level basketball thousands of miles from home.
The third and final piece of the new Pac-12’s media rights package became official early Thursday with USA Network joining previously announced partners CBS and the CW to broadcast football and basketball games beginning next summer. As with the other …
TEMPE, Ariz. – If you do not consume college basketball news during the spring and summer months, or keep up with hundreds of thousands of transactions that occur every day during the transfer portal cycle, it can be difficult to know who is playing where when the regular season starts back up in November.
TEMPE, Ariz. – “Straightforward” and “simple” would not be the first terms that come to mind when describing Adam Miller’s six-year college basketball journey, but the veteran Gonzaga guard generally has fond memories from a two-year pit stop at Arizona State.
Luca Foster signed his letter of intent with Gonzaga on Wednesday morning from a conference room at Link Academy in Branson, Missouri. Within a few hours, Foster’s future college teammate, Sam Funches, was putting pen to paper himself, surrounded by …
Not unlike roster retention and the mid-range shot, home-and-home scheduling agreements between premier college basketball programs have become somewhat of a lost art in recent years. As teams try to navigate nonconference scheduling with NCAA Tournament qualification and NIL opportunities …
Graham Ike’s back-down game was a central part of the scouting report No. 23 Creighton put together before traveling to Spokane for Tuesday’s game at No. 19 Gonzaga. The Bluejays had cut-ups highlighting Ike’s post moves, duck-ins, face-ups and short …
Graham Ike’s back-down game was a central part of the scouting report No. 23 Creighton put together before traveling to Spokane for Tuesday’s contest at No. 19 Gonzaga. The Bluejays had cut-ups highlighting Ike’s post moves, duck-ins, face-ups and short …
Most pre-season questions about Gonzaga centered on point guard play, a predictable angle following the exit of star point guard Ryan Nembhard and the return of frontcourt duo Graham Ike and Braden Huff. If early returns are any indication, it appears the position is in capable hands with junior Braeden Smith and freshman Mario Saint-Supery.
Here are three takeaways from Gonzaga’s 90-63 rout over Creighton on Tuesday at the McCarthey Athletic Center. Ike from deep Graham Ike had never made three 3-pointers in a college game. It took him 3 minutes, 6 seconds to change …
Richard Fox and yours truly took a swing at comparing Jalen Warley’s game with former Gonzaga players on the latest Zags Insiders Podcast. Not sure we connected, but it wasn’t an easy task considering the 6-foot-7 Warley’s versatility can impact games in a variety of ways.
Gonzaga basketball hosts Creighton on Tuesday
The list of Division I programs with at least 10 consecutive 20-win seasons isn’t long. Kansas leads the way with 36 straight, followed by Gonzaga (28), Belmont and Oregon at 15 and Creighton and Houston at 10.
Gonzaga’s arduous non-conference schedule should provide ample opportunities to move up or down in the college basketball rankings.The Zags, No. 21 in the preseason Associated Press poll, climbed up to No. 19 in the first regular-season rankings Monday after a 2-0 start, including a dominant 83-68 win over Oklahoma.
Owen Freeman’s conversations with Mark Few’s coaching staff never went far enough to warrant scheduling a time for the forward to see Gonzaga’s facilities in person, but for at least a handful of days there seemed to be mutual interest between the touted Iowa transfer and West Coast hoops power in Spokane.
As season-opening wins go, Creighton’s 92-76 decision over South Dakota last Wednesday was on the more unsettling side. That was the general vibe from two members of Creighton’s coaching staff after the Bluejays wrapped up a game where they led …
One week into the college basketball season, Gonzaga's Graham Ike is still garnering preseason All-American recognition. After helping the Zags secure a 2-0 start with wins over Texas Southern and Oklahoma, Ike was named a third team All-American by Sporting …