ZAGS WELCOME EASTSIDE RIVALS
• Gonzaga hosts its eastern Washington rival, Washington State, Tuesday in the McCarthey Athletic Center.
• The Cougars and GU meet for the 24th time in the last 30 years. The series began in 1984.
• Tuesday's tip-off is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. Pacific Time. The game will be broadcast locally on SWX, and have a live video stream on TheW.tv. Live stats will be available on GoZags.com. Live radio will be on The Key 1050 AM.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Gonzaga cruised past Portland State Sunday, 73-41, in the McCarthey Athletic Center.
• The Zags missed their first 15 shots, as the teams combined for a 1-for-25 start, but had a 32-12 halftime lead.
• The Bulldogs grabbed a season-high 52 rebounds, with 23 being offensive rebounds.
• Elle Tinkle recorded a double-double with 10 points and a career-high 12 reobunds.
• Emma Wolfram had a game-high 14 points, while Emma Stach and Sunny Greinacher both scored 11. Shelby Cheslek had 11 rebounds.

GONZAGA STORYLINES
• The Zags have won 27 consecutive regular season games in the McCarthey Athletic Center, dating back to a 66-63 loss to Saint Mary's in 2012.
• Gonzaga is 11th in the country with a 77.1 free-throw percentage.
• Shelby Cheslek leads the West Coast Conference and is 14th in the nation averaging 11.8 rebounds.
• Cheslek is one of two players in the WCC averaging a double-double per game.
• Georgia Stirton is currently fifth in the conference in assists per game and assist-to-turnover ratio.
• Sunny Greinacher is seventh in the WCC averaging 15.5 points per game.
• Greinacher is 70 points away from being the 20th player in GU history to score 1,000 points.
• Keani Albanez needs seven made three-pointers to crack the career top 10 list at Gonzaga.

ABOUT THE COUGARS
• Washington State rides into Spokane with a two-game winning streak, including an 81-55 victory at UC Santa Barbara in its last game Thursday.
• The Cougars have a victory over then-ranked No. 8 Maryland, 70-64, in the San Juan Shootout.
• All-Pac-12 guards Lia Galdeira and Tia Presley combine for 39.4 points per game, with Galdeira leading WSU with 20 points per outing. Galdeira is 24th in the nation averaging 3.0 steals per contest.
• Shalie Dheensaw contributes 9.3 points and and a team-high 7.4 rebounds per game.
• WSU is averaging 41.2 rebounds per game, and its opponents average 41.6.
• Washington State received five votes in last week's AP Top 25 poll.
• The Cougars return eight letterwinners including four starters.

SERIES HISTORY
• Tuesday is the 24th all-time meeting between Gonzaga and Washington State.
• The Cougars have won 16 of the all-time meetings, but is 4-4 at Gonzaga.
• WSU won the first eight meetings between the teams, and 13 of the first 14.
• The Zags have won five over the last six meetings, with the lone loss being a 57-51 Cougar win in the McCarthey Athletic Center in 2013.
• In the first meeting between the programs in 1984, WSU won at home, 74-61.
• Last season, the Zags held off Washington State in Pullman, 70-62. Three Bulldogs scored double-digits led by Haiden Palmer's game-high 20 points.
• Lindsay Sherbert and Keani Albanez contributed 13 and 12 points.

CHASING MILESTONES
• Sunny Greinacher
- Greinacher is currently fifth in program history with a .511 FG Pct.
- Needs 14 games to equal Stephanie Hawk's 122, which is 10th all-time at GU.
- Needs 59 points to become the 20th player to score 1,000 in a career at GU.
- Needs 131 rebounds to become the 15th player to grab 600 in a career at GU.
• Keani Albanez
- Albanez is currently 10th in program history with 322 three-point attempts.
- Needs six made three-pointers to equal Taelor Karr's 115, which is 10th all-time.
- Needs 17 games to equal Stephanie Hawk's 122, which is 10th all-time at GU.
- Needs 47 steals to equal Loretta O'Brien's 162, which is 10th all-time at GU.
• Shelby Cheslek
- Cheslek is eighth in program history with 104 blocks, five away from seventh.

ABOUT THE GONZAGA BULLDOGS:
• Gonzaga University women's basketball team ended their 2013-14 schedule with a loss to James Madison in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
• The Zags were seeded sixth, their highest seed ever in the NCAA Tournament.
• GU defeated BYU in the WCC Title game to win its second-straight WCC Tournament Championship and fifth in six years.
• The Bulldogs have reached 20 wins in eight straight seasons.

WHAT WE RETURNED:
• Gonzaga returns nine letterwinners, including three starters from last year's squad. It lost four players to graduation.
• Overall, the Zags returned 60.4 percent of its scoring from the 2013-14 season and 73.3 percent of its rebounding.
• Keani Albanez, Sunny Greinacher and Lindsey Sherbert all return after averaging more than 20 minutes a game last season.
• The Bulldogs welcome only one transfer, Georgia Stirton, from North Idaho College. There are also three incoming freshman from high school squads.

WHO ARE THE NEWCOMERS:
• Gonzaga has a total of six new faces to the 2014-15 team.
• Georgia Stirton transfers in from North Idaho College. The incoming junior was named the Region 18 Player of the Year and NJCAA second team All-American.
• There are three true freshmen on the roster. Jill Barta comes to Gonzaga following an undefeated high school career in Fairfield, Mont. Kacie Bosch was named the top female player in Alberta. Emma Stach was one of the top young players in Germany.
• Emma Wolfram will make her debut on the court after redshirting in 2013-14.
• Melissa Holland also joins the roster after being a team manager and practice player.

NEW FACES ON THE SIDELINES:
• The Zags begin the Lisa Fortier head coaching era this season.
• Fortier has been an assistant for GU the past seven seasons, and now enters her first year as a head coach.
• She took over for Kelly Graves, who is now at Oregon, in April.
• Fortier is joined by a completely new staff at Gonzaga.
• Jordan Green, Stacy Clinesmith and Craig Fortier are all first year assistants at GU.
• Former Gonzaga players, Amanda Brown and Heather Bowman, filled the Director of Operations and Video Coordinator positions.

GREINACHER TABBED PRESEASON ALL-WCC:
• The West Coast Conference announced its annual preseason All-Conference team and Sunny Greinacher was named to the select squad.
• The senior was named to the All-WCC postseason squad last year. The forward was named to the All-Freshman team in 2012 and earned All-WCC honorable mention in 2012-13.
• Over the 18 league games last season, Greinacher averaged 10.9 points and 4.8 rebounds, while shooting an impressive 48.7 percent (75-of-154) from the field and 75.4 percent (46-of-61) at the charity stripe.

BULLDOGS PICKED AS WCC PRESEASON FAVORITES:
• Gonzaga was selected as the preseason favorite to win the West Coast Conference title when the annual coaches' poll was released.
• The Zags received seven of the nine possible first-place votes for 78 points in the poll.
• BYU was picked second, received two first-place votes and 71 points. San Diego was selected third with one first-place vote and 65 points, just ahead of Pacific's 60 points.

FORTIER INKS TRIO ON SIGNING DAY:
• The first signing day of the Lisa Fortier era is in the books for Gonzaga University women's basketball, and it was a highly successful one.
• Zykera Rice, a 6-1 forward from Tacoma, Wash, is a three-sport athlete at Clover Park High School. Last season, she averaged 17 points and 13 rebounds per game.
• Laura Stockton, daughter of John and sister to David, will continue the family name for GU. At Gonzaga Prep in 2013-14, she averaged 13.1 points, 4.8 assists, and 2.8 steals per game.
• Zhane Templeton of Grand Prairie, Texas, was named Texas Girls Coaches Association First Team Class 5A All-State and first team All-District 7-5A.

IN THE MCCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER:
• Since the McCarthey Athletic Center opened in 2004, Gonzaga has gone 135-16 overall.
• The Bulldogs went undefeated at 14-0 in the McCarthey Athletic Center during the 2004-05 campaign, the first season it was open; went 15-0 during the 2009-10 season and finished last season with a perfect 16-0 record.
• Five of the 16 losses have been to Pacific-12 Conference members - Stanford (twice), Arizona State, USC and Washington State - and three to West Coast Conference schools.

WHERE THE ATTENDANCE RANKS:
• Gonzaga ranked 16th in the nation in attendance with a home average of 5,426 fans last season. Tennessee led the nation with an average of 11,600 fans per game.
• The Zags ended the 2012-13 season ranked a school-high 13th in home attendance averaging 5,678 fans for its 17 home games. The Bulldogs also had a school record seven sellouts last year.
• In 2011-12, the Bulldogs averaged 5,442 fans for their 17 home games which stood 14th in the NCAA for women's basketball attendance.

SEVENTH LONGEST CONFERENCE TITLE STREAK:
The Gonzaga University women's basketball team captured its unprecedented 10th-straight West Coast Conference regular-season title in 2013-14, finishing league with a 16-2 record. In the Bulldogs decade-long reign, they piled up an astonishing 136-12 record against conference foes. That includes three undefeated seasons. Their record is the seventh longest streak in the nation.
1) Wisconsin-Green Bay, Horizon League, 16 (1998-14)
2) Louisiana Tech, Sun Belt and WAC, 15 (1993-2007)
3) Stanford, Pac-12, 14 in a row (2002-14)
4) Chattanooga, Southern, 11 in a row (2000-10)
5) Stanford, Pac-12, 10 in a row (1989-1998)
6) Marist, Metro Atlantic, 11th a row (2005-14)
7) Gonzaga, West Coast, 10 in a row (2005-14)
8) Liberty, Big South, nine in a row (1998-2006)
9) Connecticut, Big East, nine in a row (1994-2002)
Only Gonzaga, Stanford, Marist and Wisconsin-Green Bay have active streaks.