ORLANDO, Fla. – As the Orlando Magic defeated the Boston Celtics to clinch their second consecutive Southeast Division title, lock up the No. 7 seed in the East and secure homecourt advantage in the NBA Play-In Tournament, Jalen Suggs observed.
It's a particularly meaningful honor for Gonzaga's head coach, who called Wooden “a hero of mine, an absolute hero,” shortly after receiving the plaque during the Wooden Awards ceremony at the Los Angeles Athletic Club ballroom.
Welcome to Day 190 of the rebuilt Pac-12’s search for a media rights contract – a process that began immediately after the conference agreed to terms with Gonzaga in early October and brought the membership total to eight.
Gonzaga continues to make headway with one of the most prominent guards currently available in the transfer portal. Rodney Rice, a 6-foot-4 guard who started in 32 of 36 games for Maryland’s Sweet 16 team last season, named Gonzaga as …
The 2024 West Coast Conference Tournament still hadn’t concluded by the time one of the league’s top performers – Pepperdine point guard Moe Odum – revealed plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal.
Gonzaga moved up, down and occasionally outside of the Associated Press Top 25 poll at different points of the 2024-25 college basketball season. The final ranking, No. 23, seemed about right for a Gonzaga team that opened the season with …
The final month of Ben Gregg’s unique Gonzaga career was packed with many of the twists and turns that marked his 4½ years in the program. In that span, Gregg juggled the emotions of Senior Night, posted arguably his best big-game performance of the season against San Francisco, lost his starting job and wore his No. 33 uniform for the last time against Houston in an NCAA Tournament loss.
Projecting success seven months before the start of the regular season was difficult enough before the transfer portal and immediate eligibility for multi-time transfers collided last spring. In the current environment, accuracy is effectively impossible.
Former Gonzaga forward Michael Ajayi is moving east to the Big East Conference after spending his first four collegiate seasons on the West Coast. Ajayi has committed to Butler, becoming the second former Zag in the transfer portal to find …
For all the uncertainty around Gonzaga’s roster entering 2025-26, at least one thing is abundantly clear: The Zags need bodies in the backcourt after losing at least four rotational pieces from last season’s team that won a conference tournament championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Mark Few will have to wait at least another year for his induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The Gonzaga coach and first-time nominee wasn’t one of the nine Hall of Fame members selected on Saturday when the …
Gonzaga coach Mark Few is one of 17 finalists awaiting the call to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Few, on the ballot for the first time, will learn his fate Saturday morning during a ceremony at the men's …
Will Graves is in select company. The former Gonzaga walk-on has gone to three of the last six Final Fours, one as a son, one as a player and one as a graduate assistant. There are no official records kept of individuals with that background, but it is safe to say it cannot be a long list.
Dusty Stromer didn’t wait long to enter his name in the transfer portal and didn’t need much more time to identify a new school. Stromer, who spent two seasons at Gonzaga before revealing last Monday he was planning to enter …
Now this was a homecoming. A month after swinging through his native Texas with Long Island of the G League, Drew Timme came roaring back through Dallas on Monday as a member of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets.
Ryan Nembhard dribbled around Braden Huff’s screen and was swarmed by two Houston defenders at the top of the circle. Another Cougar left Khalif Battle on the wing to cover Huff near the free-throw line. Nembhard made the right read …
WICHITA, Kan. – Sitting at a locker at Intrust Bank Arena, Gonzaga guard Khalif Battle held an iPhone in his right hand. Resting beneath the mobile device was an NCAA name placard taken from the news conference from which Battle had just returned.
Cluck-U Chicken. That was the name of the only food joint open deep into a night in the early 1990s, somewhere near Santa Clara. Details now fuzzy from the intervening decades, I found myself driving Dan Monson, Mark Few and Bill Grier on a midnight food run. Had somebody told me, on that night so long ago, that Gonzaga basketball would become one of the most-unlikely success stories in the history of college sports, man, I’d have choked on my chicken.
After 26 seasons, by almost every measure or metric, Gonzaga’s Mark Few boasts a résumé that stacks up with just about any in college basketball. Few’s credentials pass most of the important tests: longevity, postseason success, NBA draft picks, winning …
Former Zags standout Drew Timme has played in NBA Summer League games, NBA preseason games and a lot of NBA G League games. His next action will finally come in an NBA game.