Jim Meehan

Dahmen graciously sought out winner Garrick Higgo and Higgo’s wife Chandre to offer congratulations and a hug. Dahmen then answered media questions with brutal honesty about what went wrong down the stretch, often in painstaking detail, and trying to move forward from a setback that’s “going to sting for a while.”

Clarkston native Joel Dahmen’s bid for a wire-to-wire victory at the Corales Puntacana Championship came up agonizingly short Sunday on the finishing holes. Dahmen, who led after each of the first three rounds, lost his grip on a one-shot lead with bogeys on the last three holes at Corales Golf Course in the Dominican Republic.

There was a lot of wind and movement on moving day Saturday at the Corales Puntacana Championship, but Joel Dahmen remained consistent while others scaled the leaderboard in both directions. Dahmen entered the third round with a four-stroke lead and exited with a three-shot edge after a steady 1-under 71 at Corales Golf Course in the Dominican Republic.

One day after shooting a course-record 62, Clarkston native Joel Dahmen on Friday quickly dismissed the golf axiom that it’s typically tough to follow a low round with another low score.

It's a particularly meaningful honor for Gonzaga's head coach, who called Wooden “a hero of mine, an absolute hero,” shortly after receiving the plaque during the Wooden Awards ceremony at the Los Angeles Athletic Club ballroom.

It takes a little more scrolling than usual, but Gonzaga can be found in the bottom portion of nearly every way-too-early top 25 poll for the 2025-26 college basketball season. The Zags appeared in nine of 10 polls – high of No. 18, low of No. 25 and consensus No. 23 – released within 48 hours of Florida’s 65-63 win over Houston in Monday’s national championship.

The final month of Ben Gregg’s unique Gonzaga career was packed with many of the twists and turns that marked his 4½ years in the program. In that span, Gregg juggled the emotions of Senior Night, posted arguably his best big-game performance of the season against San Francisco, lost his starting job and wore his No. 33 uniform for the last time against Houston in an NCAA Tournament loss.

Former Gonzaga forward Michael Ajayi is moving east to the Big East Conference after spending his first four collegiate seasons on the West Coast.