Gonzaga currently has a love-hate relationship with the 3-point line. The eighth-ranked Zags were on target early with their two best 3-point shooting percentages (41.9 vs. Baylor and 45.5 vs. UMass Lowell) in the season’s first three games. The last month has been rough. In the Zags’ last six games, they’ve made just 29.8%
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 …
This segment of Gonzaga’s schedule is typical and atypical at the same time. It always is in December as the program juggles dead week last week, which preceded finals week this week and the fast-approaching Christmas holiday break. The goal is trying to mix and match practice times to prepare for some of the biggest tests on the Zags’ non-conference schedule: Kentucky last Saturday, UConn this Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City and UCLA on Dec. 28 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
In facing No. 18 UConn on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, No. 8 Gonzaga will encounter a team that’s accounted for two of the program’s 14 losses the last two seasons, as well as a transfer guard who’s been on the winning side as much as he has the losing side in six career meetings with Mark Few and the Bulldogs.
Crunch time has been tough on the Gonzaga Bulldogs. The Zags were outscored by 17 points in the second half and overtime in Saturday's 90-89 loss to Kentucky in Seattle – similar to their Nov. 20 loss to West Virginia …
Gonzaga’s one-point overtime loss to Kentucky on Saturday resulted in a one -spot drop for the Bulldogs and Wildcats in the latest AP college basketball poll. The Zags (7-2) dropped from seventh to eighth while the Wildcats, who lost earlier …
SEATTLE – One by one during Saturday’s post-game media session, Gonzaga coach Mark Few, point guard Ryan Nembhard and post Graham Ike detailed the second half and overtime issues offensively with a common refrain.
SEATTLE – Here are three observations from No. 7 Gonzaga’s 90-89 overtime loss to No. 4 Kentucky Saturday night at Climate Pledge Arena. Shades of WVU Gonzaga’s offense hit a wall during the overtime period of an 86-78 loss to …
SEATTLE – Gonzaga got it half right. And that wasn’t nearly enough. The seventh-ranked Zags played one of their finest halves of the season, led by 16 and seemed to be in complete command. They weren’t. No. 4 Kentucky ate …
SEATTLE – Okay, I’ll take the blame for this. Put this loss on my record. At halftime, when Gonzaga was eviscerating Kentucky, 50-34, at Climate Pledge Arena, I mentioned on social media that the Zags had won 175 straight games …
SEATTLE – Gonzaga got it half right. And that wasn’t nearly enough. The seventh-ranked Zags played one of their finest halves of the season, led by 16 and seemed to be in complete command. They weren’t. No. 4 Kentucky ate …
Gonzaga men play Kentucky in Seattle.
Gonzaga players and coaches were interested spectators monitoring Kentucky’s road loss to Clemson on television earlier this week with the Wildcats next on the Zags’ schedule. The Wildcats reminded senior guard Nolan Hickman of another team in blue jerseys that the Zags used to face in the West Coast Conference. Makes sense since Kentucky’s head coach Mark Pope spent the previous five years at BYU.
SEATTLE – Kentucky and Gonzaga boast two of the best offenses in the nation, even if they go about it in different ways. Both rely on balance, but Kentucky’s Otega Oweh, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound transfer from Oklahoma, is probably tops …
Kentucky coach Mark Pope hasn’t had much success against Mark Few and Gonzaga, but that hasn’t changed the coaches’ friendship on or off the court. Pope is 1-9 as a head coach against the Few-coached Zags.
Round three of Gonzaga’s six-game series with Kentucky is Saturday at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The Zags have won the first two. Unranked GU edged No. 17 Kentucky 89-85 in February at Rupp Arena, spurring the Zags’ strong second …
Five years ago, Gonzaga’s Nolan Hickman turned vision into reality when he launched a nonprofit foundation in his hometown of Seattle. The foundation helped underprivileged kids with school supplies, athletic gear and other resources while sponsoring a youth basketball camp …
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 …
The Gonzaga Bulldogs are moving from one battle to the next. Coming off a fifth-place finish at the Battle 4 Atlantis in The Bahamas, seventh-ranked GU faces the No. 4-ranked Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday in the Battle in Seattle. In …
Is there room for traditional tournaments like Maui, a mainstay for four decades, and the Battle 4 Atlantis, which began in 2011, to continue thriving and/or co-exist with NIL-driven counterparts? Will NIL-driven tournaments have staying power and become regular additions to the holiday tournament slate?