Locked On Zags - Daily Podcast On Gonzaga Bulldogs Basketball

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs were among the nine teams a group of 100+ Division 1 college basketball coaches ranked as the best team in the sport, according to the Candid Coaches series at CBS. Kansas, Alabama, Houston, Duke, and UConn were the five teams with the most votes, and we discuss if Gonzaga should have had more supporters or if being around the top 5-10 teams is about right. Anothe...

Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few and Team USA secured a gold medal over France on Saturday, thanks to late game heroics from Steph Curry. Few adds a gold medal to his already impressive resume, which includes being the NCAA all-time leader in winning percentage, 24 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, over 700 career wins, nine straight Sweet 16's, basically everything except a national champion...

Mark Few and Team USA outscored Filip Petrusev and Serbia by 17 in the fourth quarter in an all-time come from behind victory, putting them in a gold medal game against France on Saturday. Petrusev finished with nine points and five rebounds for Serbia, who will face Germany for a bronze medal. It's not uncommon at all for former Zags to play overseas, but some guys have been playing for well over...

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs added a home-and-home series with Bobby Hurley and the Arizona State Sun Devils, with the first game set for November 10 in Spokane at The Kennel. Hurley and ASU are entering the Big 12 this season, and have been a roughly .500 team the last ten years, making the NCAA Tournament three times all as an 11-seed. Few and the Zags want to ensure at least one victory ov...

Mark Few's tenure with Team USA has put him in the spotlight, and a great article by Theo Lawson of the Spokesman-Review highlighted how well respected the longtime Gonzaga Bulldogs coach is by other industry leaders. Theo joined Locked On Zags to discuss his conversations with Grant Hill, Erik Spoelstra, PJ Carlesimo, Jim Boeheim, Steve Kerr, and others about coach Few's legacy in Spokane with th...

Team USA for 3x3 men's basketball was eliminated early in the 2024 Olympic Games, spurning a lot of questions about why USA Basketball doesn't add NBA or college stars to the roster. FIBA rules make that much more challenging, and we explain why and discuss what a Gonzaga Bulldogs 3x3 lineup of Chet Holmgren, Corey Kispert, and Jalen Suggs would look like and why they would wipe the floor with the...

Ryan Nembhard has not yet had the same legacy with the Gonzaga Bulldogs as his older brother Andrew, but what would he need to do this upcoming college basketball season to surpass him? Do the Zags need to make the Final Four? Does he need to win WCC Player of the Year? Today is Mailbag Monday so we also discuss what big conference realignment shakeups could be good for Gonzaga, how the new schola...

The Gonzaga Bulldogs have landed elite transfers for decades in the Mark Few era, making it nearly impossible to pick the top 12. But that's exactly what we did, picking 12 different Zags transfers and discussing their legacy, impact, team success, and more. A pair of current GU stars, Ryan Nembhard and Graham Ike, each made the list. How much further could they move up the rankings this season? I...

The Gonzaga Bulldogs have seven alumni participating in the 2024 Olympic Games, and including Kelly Olynyk and Andrew Nembhard who helped Team Canada to a victory over a trio of St. Mary's stars - Jock Landale, Patty Mills, and Matthew Dellavedova - who represent Australia. Filip Petrusev led Serbia to a victory over Puerto Rico with a team high 15 points on 7-9 shooting, while Rui Hachimura was e...

The Gonzaga Bulldogs replaced Anton Watson with Michael Ajayi and added a key sixth man and third guard in Khalif Battle, how will these two newcomers - and the return of Steele Venters - fit into Mark Few's offense in Spokane? We also discuss Ajayi's NBA draft potential in 2025, and whether Ben Gregg could end up becoming a 2025 NBA draft pick. Finally we close with discussion on Anton Watson, Ju...

The Gonzaga Bulldogs have had at least one player selected in each of the past four NBA drafts, will that streak continue in 2025? We discuss every player on the Zags and their chances of getting selected in 2025 and beyond, starting with the wings where Michael Ajayi represents Gonzaga's likeliest path to a draft pick. Could he be joined in 2025, or a future year, by Steele Venters or Dusty Strom...

Mark Few helped lead Team USA to a win over Serbia in the Olympic men's basketball opener, getting time on screen and discussion on the broadcast about his success with the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Does Few being with Team USA help the Zags from a recruiting perspective? Today is Mailbag Monday so we also discuss how Gonzaga recruits in general, if the program could ever go fully independent in basketbal...

The NCAA is doing away with scholarship limits, which means college basketball men's and women's programs will now have 15 scholarships available every single season. With very few teams even filling 13 scholarships, how will this impact the game? And how will Mark Few and Gonzaga - known to find ways to use rules to their advantage - make this work? Will preferred walk-ons like Graydon Lemke and...

Lisa Fortier and the Gonzaga Bulldogs landed a transfer from WCC rival St. Mary's in Tayla Dalton, who heads from Moraga to Spokane for her final year of college basketball eligibility. The New Zealand native teams up with Lauren Whittaker and discusses her time in the transfer portal, why she chose to stay in the WCC and join the Zags, what she brings to the team, why the league should be on noti...

The Gonzaga Bulldogs landed yet another preferred walk-on for the 2024-25 college basketball season in Graydon Lemke. Lemke is a 6'11 stretch four who played in Las Vegas and likely would have been a higher ranked prospect if he had not suffered a torn achilles his junior year. He joins Noah Haaland and Cade Orness in what is likely the strongest trio of walk-ons in Zags history. Davis Fogle dropp...

The Gonzaga Bulldogs 2024-25 roster was announced on the team's website, which included jersey numbers for the new Zags. Khalif Battle will rock No. 99 this year, and Michael Ajayi (1), Braeden Smith (3), Emmanuel Innocenti (5), and Ismaila Diagne (24) now have numbers as well. Plus, Dusty Stromer, Braden Huff, and Graham Ike packed on some pounds this summer - we discuss what that might mean for...

The ACC and Florida State are locked in a legal battle, which could result in the Seminoles and the Clemson Tigers jumping ship. We look at the variety of ways this move could impact the Gonzaga Bulldogs and their quest to join a new conference. The Big 12 may land FSU and Clemson, likely eliminating the desire to add the Zags, while a full-on collapse from the ACC could lead to many programs join...

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs will host 2025 4-star point guard Kingston Flemings on a visit during Kraziness in the Kennel in October. Flemings is a 6'3 pure point guard who ranks inside the top-25 of the 2025 class, and who has already visited Texas Tech and is set to visit Texas and Houston in September. Flemings' profile reads much like Andrew or Ryan Nembhard, and playing him alongside Br...

Gonzaga Bulldogs 2025 target Isiah Harwell is down to four schools, with California, Houston, and Texas joining the Zags. Harwell, a native of Idaho and current star at Wasatch Academy - where Nolan Hickman played his senior season - is set to make his decision on September 12 and has scheduled visits at Houston and Texas after already visiting Gonzaga in February and Cal last month. Is he still l...

Former Gonzaga Bulldogs star Julian Strawther dropped 32 points for the Denver Nuggets in his second NBA Summer League game, after scoring 25 in the opener. Is he primed to take over a bigger role for Denver in his second NBA season, after missing parts of his rookie year with a knee injury? The NCAA Committee added two new metrics to team sheets handed to selection committee members ahead of the...

Mark Few has kept the Gonzaga Bulldogs to a tight 8-man rotation for most of the past 25 years, even at times limiting it to just seven players. Will he be able to do that this year with such a deep and talented roster, or will his rotation change on a game-by-game basis? Today is Mailbag Monday so we also discuss how likely each Zag in the Summer League is to play in the NBA this season, which te...

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs are almost certainly going to start the following four players in the 2024-25 college basketball season: Ryan Nembhard, Nolan Hickman, Michael Ajayi, and Graham Ike. The fifth and final starting spot could go to as many as four different Zags, and we break down each candidate. First it's the returning senior Ben Gregg, who started 20 games down the stretch for the...

Mark Few and Team USA took down Kelly Olynyk, Andrew Nembhard and Team Canada in a pre-Olympic scrimmage on Wednesday, 86-72. Olynyk had nine points on 4-5 shooting, but was -17 in the box score thanks to struggles on the defensive end and a lack of size in Canada's frontcourt - they could really use Zach Edey. Meanwhile, Nembhard went 0-5 from the field but played well overall, and received very...

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said he believes his conference remains 'open for business'. Does that mean the Gonzaga Bulldogs could still be considered for conference realignment? What hurdles remain for Mark Few's program as they remain on the hunt for options outside of the WCC in the ever changing college athletics landscape.  Zach Edey dominated in his first NBA Summer League game for the...

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs have the projected No. 1 offense in college basketball according to Bart Torvik's website, coming in at No. 9 overall in his projected rankings. Can the Zags produce the best offense in the country behind returning starters Ryan Nembhard, Graham Ike, Nolan Hickman, and Ben Gregg?  Gonzaga is projected to finish first in the WCC, no surprise, with St. Mary's coming...