In their fashionable red/blue warm-up pants, it was redshirt junior guard Braeden Smith, senior guard Adam Miller, senior guard Steele Venters, junior forward Braden Huff, and senior Graham Ike getting the starting nod for Gonzaga pregame versus the NAIA Northwest Eagles from nearby Kirkland, Washington. It was strange to see some open seats in the […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
| about 2 months ago
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Sunday, October 19th at 2:00 p.m. PT on SWX Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area… Follow him on X @a_cravalho
From The Slipper Still Fits
| about 2 months ago
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Make it make sense as to why the NCAA denied Gonzaga transfer Tyon Grant-Foster’s appeal for an eligibility waiver. He started his first two collegiate basketball years at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, from 2018 to 2020. The NCAA suddenly made it possible for certain college athletes before the start of the 2025-26 […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
| about 2 months ago
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Gonzaga basketball is officially back—even if the season hasn’t technically started yet. The Zags open exhibition play on Sunday, October 19, at the McCarthey Athletic Center with a tune-up against Northwest University, an NAIA program out of Kirkland, Washington, that finished 5-23 last year but brings back two starters, including leading scorer Trent Williams. The […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
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Just two weeks after experiencing Kraziness in the Kennel and receiving “We want Funches” chants from the Kennel Club, four-star center Sam Funches in the 2026 recruiting class decided to become a Zag. The Germantown product is following in a prominent lineage of dominant big men to come through Spokane (Kelly Olynyk, Zach Collins, Domantas […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
| about 2 months ago
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Gonzaga and San Francisco will play each other for the third straight season at the Chase Center on February 18th on ESPN, the home of the Golden State Warriors and Golden State Valkyries. It’s just not the same; I would much rather watch these two West Coast Conference opponents go up against each other at […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
| about 2 months ago
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The strength of Gonzaga’s roster in 2025-26 isn’t in its stars. Rather, it’s in the players’ best enough to start almost anywhere else, whose minutes might not even crack double digits this year. Jalen Warley is proof of that fact. A former five-star recruit out of high school and three-year starter in the Atlantic Coast […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
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This marks the 25th straight season that Gonzaga has been ranked in the preseason Associated Press Poll. The Zags join Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina as the only programs to appear in each of the last 16 preseason AP Polls. No. 21 Gonzaga (387 votes) has matchups with No. 23 Creighton (158 votes), No. […]
From The Slipper Still Fits
| about 2 months ago
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Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
The other bball title game is here. You’re probably still basking in the glow of the Stanford Cardinal ’s first women’s basketball national championship in 29 years — why wouldn’t you be? — but if you can’t get enough college basketball, the men’s NCAA Tournament championship game is Monday evening in Indianapolis.
It’s an intriguing matchup if you like upstarts, as perennial mid-major power Gonzaga have a chance to win their first national title and they...
From Rule Of Tree
| over 4 years ago
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