DAVE BOLING

Michael Ajayi wasn’t entirely sure what the day would have in store when he woke up from a hotel room in Toronto on May 29.

Several hours before the fireworks shows started on the Fourth of July, Gonzaga made some noise in its 2025 recruiting class. Davis Fogle, a 6-foot-7, 185-pound shooting guard ranked as high as No. 31 nationally by one recruiting service, committed to the Bulldogs on Thursday.

Davis Fogle, a standout shooting guard in the 2025 class, has Gonzaga in his final three and he appears close to announcing his decision.

Mark Few was a couple of weeks into his seasonal job with USA Basketball last summer when he started to notice some unusual elbow soreness.

After facing last year’s Southland Conference champion, McNeese State, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, Gonzaga will host the league’s runner-up as part of its nonconference schedule next season.

Gonzaga will have more representation in Las Vegas when the United States Olympic team gathers for training camp ahead of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.

Buy Utah football but sell UW? The Hotline would either sell or avoid most of the outbound Pac-12 football teams.

One week ago, members of the Boston Celtics roster and front office were perched on top of duck boats parading through the city’s main roadways while celebrating an NBA-record 18th championship.

The conference will add Washington State and Oregon State as affiliate members next season. But are either equipped to contend for the title?

Gonzaga’s active stretch of consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, opening-round wins and Sweet 16 runs has, not surprisingly, coincided with another series of milestones in the month of June when the college basketball world annually shifts its attention to the NBA Draft.

As the Gonzaga legend nears his 40th birthday, with his induction into the Hooptown USA Hall of Fame scheduled for this week, an update seemed appropriate. So much was written during his career, yet so very little of him since, leaving the collective memory of most fans to go dark after his injury-shortened NBA career.