We debuted our “Four Out” series last January, with Gonzaga facing somewhat of an identity crisis coming off an upset loss to Santa Clara, having just dropped out of the AP Top 25 and entering a crucial stretch of West Coast Conference games that would determine the team’s NCAA Tournament fate.
Is Gonzaga basketball back on the bubble? Following back-to-back West Coast Conference losses, the Zags dropped out of the Top 25 on Monday, and dropped to No. 19 in the NET rankings. CBS Sports' Jerry Palm's latest bracket projection has GU as a No. 9 seed.
The Best of the West offers fans a candid assessment of the top teams in the western third of the country – a collection that includes the Mountain West and the former Pac-12 schools now scattered across the ACC, Big …
A year ago after Gonzaga’s road loss at Santa Clara, the Zags dropped out of the AP college basketball top 25 for the first time in 143 polls, dating back to the start of the 2016-17 season. Following two West Coast Conference losses last week including Thursday’s overtime loss to Oregon State and Saturday’s 103-99 home setback to Santa Clara, the Zags fell out of the AP poll again.
Nearly a full page of Gonzaga’s media guide is devoted to games where the Bulldogs have reached one of college basketball’s elusive milestones. The Zags have scored in triple digits 108 times since 1955, dwarfing the number of games (34) …
The evening ended with a thud with Gonzaga falling to Santa Clara 103-99, but it started out with rousing standing ovations for Domantas Sabonis, one of the best players in school history. Sabonis was on hand with wife, Shashana, and their young children Tiger and Eleven “Elle” as his No. 11 jersey was displayed on the McCarthey Athletic Center wall, joining Frank Burgess, John Stockton, Adam Morrison, Kelly Olynyk, and Dan Dickau from the men’s program and Courtney Vandersloot from the women’s team.
Gonzaga came out of its first loss this week focused on improving at the defensive end and finding a way to execute in the late-game situations that have stumped Mark Few’s team at almost every turn this season.
Here are three observations from Gonzaga’s 103-99 loss to Santa Clara on Saturday. Defense rests Gonzaga’s defense endured another long night. After giving up 97 points in an overtime loss to host Oregon State on Thursday in Corvallis, the Zags …
The Zags will hang the jersey of Domantas Sabonis in the rafters ahead of their game against the Broncos at McCarthey Athletic Center. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. on KHQ and ESPN+ outside the region.
For long stretches of Thursday’s game at Gill Coliseum, Gonzaga’s Graham Ike and Oregon State’s Parsa Fallah traded body blows and baskets before both players eventually fouled out in overtime.
The impromptu party on Oregon State’s home court hadn’t died down by the time Gonzaga coach Mark Few started a postgame interview one level below in a basement hallway next to the visiting locker room at Gill Coliseum.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – As suboptimal combinations go, yielding baskets and 3-pointers, putting a good free-throw shooting team on the line and failing to follow the scouting report isn’t ideal – as Gonzaga found out Thursday night.
Gonzaga play Santa Clara at home.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Graham Ike delivered the biggest shot of his career at the most opportune time of Gonzaga’s overtime loss to Oregon State at Gill Coliseum. The timing of Ike’s fourth and fifth fouls? Not quite as opportune for …
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Here are three observations from No. 16 Gonzaga's 97-89 overtime loss to Oregon State on Thursday night at Gill Coliseum. Zags deliver, falter in the clutch Gonzaga led by as many as six points in the second …
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Gonzaga hasn’t had much luck in close games. Neither has Oregon State. So something had to give Thursday night in an entertaining, back-and-forth West Coast Conference contest in front of a full house of 9,301 a Gill …
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Gonzaga hasn’t had much luck in close games. Neither has Oregon State. So something had to give Thursday night in an entertaining, back-and-forth West Coast Conference contest in front of a full house of 9,301 at Gill …
Gonzaga men play at Oregon State on Thursday.
Junior forward Michael Rataj is the last of Oregon State’s impressive 2022 recruiting class still wearing a Beavers’ uniform. The German native arrived at OSU with Tyler Bilodeau (transferred to UCLA after last season), Jordan Pope (Texas), KC Ibekwe (Washington), Gonzaga Prep grad Jayden Stevens (Idaho), Nick Krass (Tarleton State) and Donovan Grant (walk-on at Georgetown last season). Rataj stayed with the Beavers, even after a difficult start to his sophomore season. He had a tumor removed from his shin prior to the season and missed most of preseason preparations and the first three games.
Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle and Gonzaga counterpart Mark Few go back nearly three decades. They first met when Tinkle, playing professionally in the late 1990s after a standout career at Montana, helped at then-GU head coach Dan Fitzgerald’s camps.