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2027 four-star recruit Dooney Johnson will be on his official visit for Gonzaga’s game tonight against Western Oregon. He actually was in Spokane yesterday, checking out the Zags’ practice. The 6-5 and 185-pound guard hails from Milwaukee Juneau in Wisconsin, out of the 2027 recruiting class. He averaged 25.3 points per game on a 52 […]
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Gonzaga’s exhibition against Western Oregon comes with a direct line back to Mark Few’s earliest coaching days. Western Oregon’s new head coach, Ryan Orton, is the son of Doug Orton, the high school coach who hired Few for his very first coaching job at Creswell High School in the mid-1980s. Few ran the freshman team […]
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Nolan Hickman was picked No. 5 overall in the 2025 NBA G League Draft by the Capital City Go-Go, the Washington Wizards’ affiliate. He played with Ryan Nembhard and the Dallas Mavericks in the 2025 NBA Summer League, averaging 5.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in three appearances. In his senior campaign with the […]
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Joining four-star center Sam Funches and German combo guard Jack Kayil in the 2026 recruiting class, four-star wing Luca Foster from Link Academy in Branson, Missouri (previously with Archbishop Carroll in Radnor, Pennsylvania), has pledged himself to coach Mark Few and the Zags. Foster went on his official visit to the Kennel last week when […]
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Check out the second episode of the 2025-26 season from Free Ira Brown! Support the show at patreon.com/freeirabrown. Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area… Follow him on Twitter @a_cravalho
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Four-star recruit Sam Funches is following in a prominent lineage of dominant big men to come through the Gonzaga program. Kelly Olynyk, Zach Collins, Domantas Sabonis, Chet Holmgren are just a few that come to mind. The 6-11 leftie has a 7’5 wingspan, bringing a soft touch when finishing around the basket and rim protection […]
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Always an exciting day inside the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, for all 12 schools a part of the West Coast Conference in 2025-26. On the women’s side, Oregon State (nine first-place votes, 119 points) was named the favorite to win the conference, while Gonzaga (three first-place votes, 111 points) is picked as the […]
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Tyon Grant-Foster’s eligibility case was set for Thursday, October 23rd, at 3:30 p.m. PT in Spokane, but the NCAA filed a motion on Wednesday, October 22nd, requesting that the case be moved from state to a federal court. The NCAA is sticking by its thought process that Grant-Foster’s eligibility expired because “he had the opportunity […]
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The Becky Hammon Player of the Year Award is given to the best mid-major player in the country, and Gonzaga sophomore guard Allie Turner is being considered for the honor after a remarkable freshman season out of the West Coast Conference. Turner hit a staggering 105 three-pointers last season for the Zags, and no returning […]
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The 2025–26 season has barely begun, but Gonzaga fans have already been given their first real hints of just how valuable Ismaila Diagne will be for the Zags this year. Through the Kraziness in the Kennel scrimmage and the exhibition win over Northwest University, the 7-foot sophomore has moved from theoretical upside to observable influence. […]
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Gonzaga had 11 Zags listed on an NBA opening day roster in 2024-25, so the 2025-26 season will have the exact amount. Here are all those who have been groomed by coach Mark Few over the years: Oklahoma City Thunder’s Chet Holmgren Sacramento Kings’ Domas Sabonis Indiana Pacers’ Andrew Nembhard Orlando Magic’s Jalen Suggs Los […]
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Gonzaga had 11 Zags listed on an NBA opening day roster in 2024-25, so the 2025-26 season took a slight dip, at least for now. Here are all 10 that have been groomed by coach Mark Few over the years: OKC’s Chet Holmgren Sacramento’s Domas Sabonis Indiana’s Andrew Nembhard Orlando’s Jalen Suggs Los Angeles Lakers’ […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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One Zag is out, another one in. Just a month after his 25th birthday, the Brooklyn Nets forward Drew Timme was waived after averaging 12.1 points in 28.2 minutes on a 44.1 field goal percentage in nine games played in 2024-25. He also chipped in 7.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game. Along with this […]
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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. […]
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I’ve spent the last hour combing X and YouTube for video clips of Emmanuel Innocenti doing what he does best: playing spectacular on-ball defense. The dude’s a lockdown disruptor at the point of attack, and it’s just simply not something you come by often in the world of college basketball anymore. But the unfortunate fact […]
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