The Zags will host WSU on Jan. 11 - the first head-to-head meeting between the two schools in Spokane since December 2014
head coach Mark Few didn’t offer much opinion on the new-look West Coast Conference, though he was cognizant of how an 18-game schedule will impact his team’s ability to schedule nonconference opponents.
Consider this: excluding the conference tournament, the Zags had six games that were either Quad 1 or Quad 2 worthy in WCC play and just three Quad 3 games in the league last season. Based on the current Bart Torvik projections for the 2024-25 campaign, there’s slated to be one less Quad 1 game and a whopping seven Quad 3 games on the schedule.
One interesting storyline to track heading into the WCC opener will be Michael Ajayi’s return to Malibu, California, where he spent the 2023-24 season with Pepperdine before transferring to Gonzaga this offseason. The 6-foot-7 wing was an All-WCC selection with the Waves, as he led the league in scoring at 17.2 points to go with 9.9 rebounds per game.
Gonzaga has won the past four matchups against WSU, including a 69-60 win in Pullman in 2015, and six of the past seven meetings overall. The two schools met 14 times in 15 seasons between 2001-2015, though since then the two Washington schools haven’t met in any capacity.
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