The Colorado and Gonzaga women’s basketball teams share several similarities. Coming into the season, both teams had big roster restructures. Colorado brought in 10 new players, Gonzaga added four from the transfer portal along with three signers. Each team had …
Former Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves has coached a Final Four and four Elite Eight teams, and a potential NCAA champion whose shot was taken away by the pandemic. But to many in women’s college basketball, Graves is Bracket Killer Kelly.
If there’s a consolation prize in college basketball, then the Gonzaga women received it Sunday. The Bulldogs were selected to the 32-team Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament which begins Thursday. No. 4 seed Gonzaga (22-10) entertains University of Texas San Antonio …
LAS VEGAS – The kindest way to say it is the Gonzaga women’s basketball got out-executed at the end. The Zags know it, everybody at Orleans Arena saw it and there’s no reason to be more pointed. It happened against …
The Zags are finally at full strength heading into the West Coast Conference Tournament. Two-time WCC Player of the Year Yvonne Ejim has led the Zags in scoring at 20.7 points per game and true freshman point guard Allie Turner, who has been impressive since the season’s opening tip, is the second-leading scorer at 13.3 ppg.
It was an aha moment. It often happens during recruiting, and there’s usually a twist or turn with every recruiting development. Case in point is Gonzaga freshman point guard Allie Turner of St. Louis. She wasn’t anywhere on the Gonzaga …
Lisa Fortier almost apologized to the fans for what they witnessed in the first three quarters Saturday afternoon at McCarthey Athletic Center. Then the Washington State and Gonzaga women’s basketball teams registered a classic finish and rewarded the sellout crowd …
Lisa Fortier has said many insightful things the past five years about Yvonne Ejim. The Gonzaga women’s basketball coach was succinct and appropriate in a statement she shared recently about the player who is 15 points away from becoming the …
And then there was one. What had been a six-team logjam at the top of the West Coast Conference women’s basketball two weeks ago is no more. The team sitting alone at the top comes as no surprise. Gonzaga was …
A look at Gonzaga’s women’s basketball roster shows an impending hole at forward for the 2025-26 roster. The Zags will have just one returning scholarship forward on their roster – Minnesota transfer McKynnlie Dalan, a 6-foot sophomore from Montesano, a …
Jenn and LeeAnne Wirth have always been famous in Spokane as the identical twins who played Division I basketball at Gonzaga University. Following their graduation in 2021, they became so much more than that. Little did they know that not …
Lisa Fortier isn’t looking for perfection. That would be an unrealistic expectation with her Gonzaga basketball team this season. But in a word, Fortier’s Bulldogs were better Monday. Small victories coupled with on-court wins will suffice at the moment. Showing …
With no signature victory, as was the case a year ago, Gonzaga is likely not a candidate for an at-large NCAA Tournament berth. Winning the West Coast Conference Tournament will be the Zags’ lone shot at an NCAA berth.
From staff reports Gonzaga standout forward Yvonne Ejim was among 50 players named to the watch list for the John R. Wooden Award, presented each season to college basketball’s most outstanding player. Ejim, who had her 26th career double-double (17 …
Lisa Fortier didn’t know it at the time but there were signs something was wrong. Normally healthy, the Gonzaga women’s basketball coach was bouncing from colds to coughs to flu in the first couple months of the 2023-24 season. Then, during a self-exam of her body in late January, Fortier noticed a lump she hadn’t felt before.
One has to wonder if picking the Gonzaga women’s basketball team to win the West Coast Conference regular-season championship is something automatic for opposing coaches. The Zags have won 19 WCC titles, two in a row, and eight under coach …
McCarthey Athletic Center has been home to 262 victories for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team since its opening in 2004-05. A look back at the top 20 memories/moments since the first dribbles and baskets in the 6,000-seat arena.
The landscape has changed much in the West Coast Conference. First, Washington State and Oregon State are affiliate members for two years in women’s and men’s basketball. That raises the competitive level for sure. Second, WCC women’s teams suffered 36 …
From staff reports Gonzaga standout Yvonne Ejim was named Thursday to the watch list for the Katrina McClain Award, given each season to the nation’s top power forward. Ejim was a finalist for the award a year ago after averaging …
Gonzaga fifth-year forward Yvonne Ejim was named to the 2024-25 Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List on Monday. Ejim, the reigning West Coast Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, is one …