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 …
Big-time nonconference tests usually come with big-time individual matchups. Gonzaga’s scouting reports seem to get more challenging by the year, as Mark Few and his coaching staff continue to build nonconference schedules that rank among the most difficult in the …
Gonzaga closed out a busy October on the recruiting trail with another high-profile commitment. Dooney Johnson, a four-star guard from Milwaukee considered to be the 17th-best player in the country according to On3/Rivals, became the first player from the 2027 …
Gonzaga’s career scoring leader is on the move again as he prepares to begin his third professional basketball season. In a two-team trade, Drew Timme’s returning player rights were sent from the Long Island Nets to the South Bay Lakers …
On one of the more unique days Gonzaga’s basketball program has had in recent years, the Zags also had one of the top players in the 2027 recruiting class in town for an official visit.
Wearing a powder blue dress shirt, navy tie and white heart-shaped earrings, Tyon Grant-Foster leaned forward and placed two palms over his forehead. Moments later, he stood up to wipe tears from his left eye. On the way out of the courtroom, he walked by Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few, who offered a congratulatory pat on the back.
Grant-Foster, who averaged nearly 18 points in two seasons at Grand Canyon and was the 2024 Western Athletic Conference player of the year, was the 11th Zag to take the floor. By that time, the Zags had built a 20-point lead against Western Oregon. No. 21 Gonzaga showed off its depth and power in the paint, cruising past the undersized Wolves 111-53.
Ryan Orton’s stories about Mark Few can be traced back to a time when Gonzaga’s coach was hardly recognized outside of his sparsely populated hometown in west central Oregon. Long before Few was sending in play calls at a national …
Good things come in threes, especially when you're trying to build a college basketball recruiting class. It’s been a month to remember for Gonzaga, which added to its 2026 recruiting class for the third time in October, picking up a …