Khalif Battle Gonzaga will be in good hands if the transfer guard has more games that look like his first. Playing against old coach Eric Musselman, the former Arkansas guard scored Gonzaga’s first five points, connecting on a step-back jumper …
onzaga made up an 11-point second-half deficit but couldn’t complete the comeback at the defensive end as USC claimed a 96-93 victory in front of a sparsely populated audience inside Acrisure Arena.
PALM DESERT, Calif. – Gonzaga’s Khalif Battle is thrilled to line up against somebody not sporting Zags practice gear, but the Arkansas transfer will still see a familiar face on the opposing bench when GU faces USC in an exhibition contest Saturday.
Gonzaga men play USC in an exhibition game in Acrisure Arena.
LAS VEGAS – Mountain West Media Day, West Coast Conference Media Day or a 24-hour summit for teams headed to the new-look Pac-12 Conference? At times, last week’s media gathering at Resorts World in Las Vegas could have passed as …
Nikolas Khamenia, a four-star forward who’d been on Gonzaga’s recruiting radar for three years, committed to Duke over the Zags and UCLA on Tuesday afternoon. The Harvard-Westlake (Los Angeles) High standout announced his college decision on a YouTube live stream …
Jalen Suggs and Corey Kispert, former Gonzaga teammates taken 10 picks apart in the first round of the 2021 NBA Draft, on Monday were rewarded with hefty pay raises when they agreed to rookie contract extensions.
Why would a return of pro basketball to Seattle make any difference to a region that lost its lukewarm embrace with the team the first time around? Easy. Spokane – aka Hooptown USA – is literally a basketball hotbed now.
LAS VEGAS – Julian Strawther couldn’t necessarily point to a single “welcome to the NBA” moment that defined his rookie season with the Denver Nuggets. He’d rather point to four individual moments that made up one memorable sequence about a …
LAS VEGAS – Earlier this summer, Gonzaga coach Mark Few took time to visit with Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens at UNLV’s Mendenhall Center. Stevens swung by to catch a few of his players – Olympians Jayson …
With the 2024-25 NBA campaign approaching, we take a look at the 11 former Gonzaga players and four former Washington State players currently on NBA rosters, breaking down who’s playing where and what the situation looks like for each former Zag and Coug entering the season.
DALLAS – Three-hundred-eighty-seven days. That’s how long Brandon Clarke went between NBA games after sustaining a torn Achilles tendon in a March 3, 2023, game in Denver. When he returned more than a year later, Clark – the former Gonzaga …
LAS VEGAS – During his sixth NBA season, Zach Collins dealt with an ankle injury that sidelined him for games in December and January, then suffered a torn right labrum in the third quarter of a regular-season finale against the Detroit Pistons, roughly 20 minutes before the San Antonio Spurs were scheduled to begin their offseason.
LAS VEGAS – A cordial conversation unfolded between Mark Few and Randy Bennett on Thursday afternoon on the second floor of Resort World. The coaches at Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s had a minute to spare during a busy West Coast …
Boise State, led by former Gonzaga assistant coach Leon Rice and former Mt. Spokane standout Tyson Degenhart, is favored to win the Mountain West for the first time since the Broncos joined the conference in 2011-12.
After a one-year hiatus, Gonzaga has returned to its familiar spot atop the West Coast Conference preseason coaches’ basketball poll. The Zags received nine of 11 first-place votes and 99 points, easily outdistancing rival Saint Mary’s (one first-place vote and …
The television picture became much clearer for Gonzaga’s and Washington State’s conference and nonconference basketball games this season. The sixth-ranked Zags’ nine best nonconference games, at least on paper, and eight of GU’s 18 West Coast Conference contests will be …
A few weeks back, Gonzaga and Baylor finalized what many expected would be a top-10 college basketball matchup on the opening night of the 2024-25 season. Monday's reveal of the preseason Associated Press Top 25 confirmed that much, adding even …
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By most accounts, Drew Timme looked impressive while returning to the court this summer coming off the foot injury he suffered in January. The Sacramento Kings must have thought so because the organization’s G League affiliate, the Stockton Kings, acquired …
Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara, Jan. 8
Gametime: 8:30 p.m.
Location: McCarthey Athletic Center
On TV: ESPN2
On Radio: 590-AM