Graham Ike picked up a second weekly honor for his 25-point performance on Saturday in Gonzaga’s 82-72 victory over then No. 25 UCLA. Ike, who was named West Coast Conference Player of the Week on Monday, was one of five …
No. 7 Gonzaga reaches the end of the non-conference portion of its schedule with Campbell’s visit Wednesday, followed by a short plane trip to face Oregon in Portland on Sunday.
On March 20, John Andrzejek woke up in a Raleigh, North Carolina, hotel room not far from top-seeded Florida’s opening-round NCAA Tournament site. The 32-year-old SEC assistant was deep in game-planning mode, working on a defensive strategy for the Gators’ first test against Norfolk State, when the news dropped around 9 a.m.
First-year coach John Andrzejek is trying to build a winning program at Campbell. At the midmajor level, especially in this day and age, that usually requires identifying Division I transfers who come from a winning pedigree.
Only No. 3 Gonzaga is assured a berth in the 68-team field. Two others, No. 30 Utah State and No. 39 Boise State, are firmly on the bubble, with No. 54 Colorado State on the outskirts.
Gonzaga’s 82-72 win over then-No. 25 UCLA convinced enough AP poll voters to move the Zags up after a week in which nobody in the top 10 lost a game. The Zags (10-1) swapped spots with Houston, climbing up one …
SEATTLE – With Saturday’s result at Climate Pledge Arena, news that Gonzaga and UCLA would be adding a few extra chapters to their storied history on the basketball court may have landed differently with Bruins fans than it did with Zags fans.
Gonzaga’s bigs, per usual, led the way.GU’s point guards led in their own way, dealing with an assortment of UCLA defenses, zones, traps, presses and “a lot of pressure,” as Zags coach Mark Few said during his post-game remarks.
It wasn’t much of a surprise, but bigs on both teams carried the scoring load.In the first half alone, Gonzaga’s Graham Ike and Braden Huff and UCLA’s Tyler Bilodeau, a Kennewick, Washington, native, piled up 45 of the teams’ 85 points. The trio combined to make 16 of 20 field-goal attempts and went 4 of 4 on 3-pointers.
Graham Ike caught the ball at the free throw line and surveyed what was in front of him. Just one baby-blue jersey stood between Gonzaga’s forward and the basket, but another was already sliding into position to provide reinforcement. The cinderblock pieces making up this particular UCLA wall: 6-foot-11 center Xavier Booker and 6-foot-9 forward Eric Dailey Jr.
SEATTLE – If Gonzaga’s history against UCLA tells us anything, it’s that the victor will probably need contributions from a handful of candidates at different spots and perhaps some timely magic from a single player willing to rise to the occasion in the second half.
SEATTLE – Good things have generally come from Gonzaga’s matchups with UCLA, although fans might prefer to skip over the last 40 minutes of nonconference action between the Zags and Bruins.
UCLA’s Mick Cronin is nothing if not opinionated. The coach’s latest gripe? An 8:30 p.m. tipoff time between his 25th-ranked Bruins and No. 8 Gonzaga on Saturday at Climate Pledge Arena. Three days before the West Coast college hoops powers …
If the team from Gonzaga thumps Kentucky by 35 points one week, and then looks to stretch its all-time advantage over UCLA to 8-3 the next week, it’s fair to question the contemporary relevance of the term “Blue Bloods” in regard to men’s college basketball. And if you beat the basketball aristocracy more often than not over a span of 25 years, shouldn’t you also be a part of such conversation?
Braeden Smith mapped out what the 2025-26 season could look like when he made a considerable bet on himself transferring from Colgate to Gonzaga 19 months ago. He spent a full redshirt season conceptualizing how he’d fit in with the …
Gonzaga and UCLA have packed a ton of iconic moments into 10 meetings over the last 25 years. To name three: Jalen Suggs’ 40-footer in overtime to fuel Gonzaga’s 93-90 win at the 2021 Final Four, Julian Strawther’s dagger 3-pointer …
Crushing Kentucky, previewing UCLA and a lengthy conversation about freshman wing Davis Fogle was just some of the ground Richard Fox, analyst on GU games televised on KHQ and SWX, and yours truly covered Monday in the latest Zags Basketball Insiders Podcast.
The former Zag took over as the Mavs’ starting point guard six games ago, and he has immediately helped everything click for what had been among the NBA’s most constipated offenses.
Someday in the future when Mark Few revisits the most memorable victories of his coaching career, it’s unlikely Sunday’s 109-58 blowout of North Florida at McCarthey Athletic Center will be one of the first results that comes to mind.
Gonzaga vs. San Francisco, Jan. 24
Gametime: 5 p.m.
Location: McCarthey Athletic Center
On TV: CBS Sports
On Radio: 590-AM