ZAGS GO FOR EIGHT STRAIGHT SATURDAY
• Gonzaga seeks to extend its season-long win streak to eight games versus Loyola Marymount Saturday.
• The Zags are looking for their first 7-0 start to conference play since 2010-11.
• Saturday's tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. Pacific Time. The game will be broadcast on SWX, and have live video on GoZags.com. Live radio will be on The Key 1050 AM.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• GU won its seventh straight game and remained unbeaten in WCC play with a 73-64 win over LMU Thursday.
• Elle Tinkle paced Gonzaga with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Keani Albanez added 16 points and Sunny Greinacher had 15. Georgia Stirton finished with 10.

GONZAGA STORYLINES
• The Bulldogs are 11-0 when they score at least 70 points so far this season. They are also 9-0 when their bench outscored the opposing bench. GU is 12-1 when shooting a better percentage from the field.
• Gonzaga has won 27 straight conference games at home, dating back to a 66-63 loss to Saint Mary's on Jan. 14, 2012. Since 2010, the Zags are 42-1 at home versus WCC opponents. Since 2003, the Bulldogs are 87-5 at home versus conference opponents.
• In the last 240 minutes at home, Gonzaga has been behind for 14:46.
• In the 240 minutes of conference play, GU has trailed for 3:07. San Francisco had the lead for the longest time, 1:36, in the first half at USF. The Zags have been in three games that they not trailed.
• The Bulldogs are ranked 44th in the latest RPI rating, previously 43rd before the Pepperdine game.
• GU's four losses and their RPI rank; Iowa (14), Northwestern (34), WSU (60), and American (67).
• GU's best wins and their RPI rank; Dayton (18), BYU (70), San Diego (89). Two chances that lie ahead are Saint Mary's (50) and Pacific (58).
• Gonzaga is sixth in the country with a 77.5 free-throw percentage.
• Keani Albanez currently leads the conference with 2.71 steals per game. The senior is also second in the WCC shooting 90.7 percent from the free-throw line. She is 16-of-17 in WCC play from the line.
• Shelby Cheslek is third in the conference averaging 8.9 rebounds.

ABOUT THE LIONS
• Loyola Marymount enters Saturday's game on a 12-game skid, it's last win was on Nov. 29.
• Taylor Anderson leads the Lions with 12.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game.
• Leslie Lopez-Wood adds 10.6 points per outing. She has made 41 three-pointers this season. The sophomore missed her first free-throw attempt of the season on Nov. 14, but has made 22 straight since.
• Emily Ben-Jumbo averages 9.8 points on 50 percent shooting from the field.
• LMU's 14.9 assists per game are second in the conference. It is fifth in assist-to-turnover ratio.
• The Lions lost their preseason All-WCC guard, Deanna Johnson, to a knee injury on Dec. 20.

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday is the 59th meeting between Gonzaga and LMU. GU has a 37-21 edge.
• The Zags have won the last 13, dating back to a 75-60 LMU win in Los Angeles in 2008.
• The Bulldogs have won 10 straight at home, dating back to a 76-74 overtime loss in 2002. Gonzaga is 19-6 at home versus the Lions, including 10-0 in the MAC.
• The Zags won the last meeting, 88-51, Feb. 6, 2014, in Spokane. Lindsay Sherbert finished with 11 points. Shelby Cheslek grabbed a game-high seven rebounds.
• Gonzaga won the first meeting, 100-78, in Los Angeles in 1985.

CHASING MILESTONES
• Sunny Greinacher
- Greinacher is currently fifth in program history with a .506 FG Pct.
- Needs four games to equal Stephanie Hawk's 122, which is 10th all-time at GU.
- Needs 19 points to become 17th on the GU all-time scoring list.
• Keani Albanez
- Albanez is currently seventh in program history with 398 three-point attempts.
- Needs six made three-pointers to have sixth possession of sixth all-time at 136.
- Needs seven games to equal Stephanie Hawk's 122, which is 10th all-time at GU.
- Needs 16 steals to equal Loretta O'Brien's 162, which is 10th all-time at GU.
• Shelby Cheslek
- Cheslek is seventh in program history with 116 blocks, 10 away from sixth.

TINKLE CONTINUES HOT PLAY
• Elle Tinkle is averaging 20.0 points per game in conference play, fifth in the WCC.
• In the 11 non-conference games, she averaged 7.7 points.
• In the last seven games, Tinkle has scored 132 points (18.9), shot .553 (42-of-76) from the field, and 13-of-30 (.433) from behind-the-arc.
• In the first seven games of the season, Tinkle scored 43 points (6.1), shot .256 (10-of-39) from the field, and 4-of-17 (.235) from three-point range.
• She has reached 20 points three times in her 83 appearances for Gonzaga. Those three times have been in the last five games.

GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS
• Georgia Stirton has seen her points per game average go from 3.9 in non-conference games to 8.8 in conference play. Her current overall average is 5.6.
• Her shooting percentage from behind-the-arc in the first 11 non-conference games was .250 (3-of-12). She is 10-of-21 (.476) in WCC play from three-point range.
• Stirton entered this week leading the WCC in field goal percentage in conference play, making 15-of-23 from the field (.652).
• She is 8-for-8 on shots from within the three-point arc in conference play.
• This season she is 17-of-25 from inside-the-arc (.680).
• Her overall .517 field goal percentage leads the team, and is the only one over .500.

HOME SWEET HOME IN WCC PLAY
• GU has won 27 straight home games versus WCC opponents dating back to a 66-63 loss to Saint Mary's on Jan. 14, 2012.
• Since 2010, the Bulldogs are 42-1 against conference opponents at home, outscoring them by an average, 78-56.
• At home against conference opponents, the Zags are 87-5 (.945) since the 2003 season.
• The five losses were to Pepperdine (‘03, ‘07), San Francisco (‘04), Portland (‘09), and St. Mary's (‘12). Four of the five losses were by six points or less.
• The Zags are working for their eighth unbeaten home WCC slate, and third straight.

ZAGS ADD UTAH STATE TRANSFER
• Gonzaga has added Makenlee Williams, a transfer from Utah State, to its roster.
• Following NCAA transfer rules, she will sit out the remainder of this season.
• Through seven games, she was leading the Aggies averaging 14.4 points per game.
• During her USU career, Williams averaged 11.1 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.
• She appeared in 60 games at Utah State, making 53 starts. Williams reached double-digit scoring 35 times, along with 20 games with more than five rebounds.

SHERBERT SIDELINED WITH KNEE INJURY
• Lindsay Sherbert suffered a sprained posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in the second half against Iowa in the South Point Thanksgiving Shootout on Nov. 29.
• Sherbert has not played since and was slated for a return six to eight weeks from Dec. 18.
• Through five games, Sherbert averaged 10.8 points and five rebounds in 25 minutes.
• The Temecula, Calif. native was shooting nearly 42 percent from behind-the-arc.

IN THE MCCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER
• Since the McCarthey Athletic Center opened in 2004, Gonzaga has gone 142-17 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.
• Six of the 17 losses have been to Pacific-12 Conference members - Stanford (twice), Arizona State, USC and Washington State (twice) - and three to West Coast Conference schools.
• Against West Coast Conference opponents, the Zags are 81-4 (.953) in the MAC.
• 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.

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.
• The Bulldogs have reached 20 wins in eight straight seasons.

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.

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.

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.
Only Gonzaga, Stanford, Marist and Wisconsin-Green Bay have active streaks.