ZAGS WRAP UP TOUGH ROAD TRIP AT PACIFIC
• Gonzaga seeks to extend its season-long win streak to 10 games at Pacific Saturday.
• The Zags are looking for their first 9-0 start to conference play since 2010-11.
• Saturday's tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. Pacific Time. The game will have live video and stats on GoZags.com. Live radio will be on The Key 1050 AM.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• GU won its ninth straight game and remained unbeaten in WCC play with a 52-42 win at Saint Mary's Thursday.
• The Zags had 16 assists on 20 made field goals, including 15 assists on their first 15 made field goals.
• Gonzaga held the conference's best shooting team to a season-low 26 percent shooting from the field.
• Elle Tinkle led the Bulldogs with 13 points.

GONZAGA STORYLINES
• The Bulldogs are 12-0 when they score at least 70 points so far this season. They are also 10-0 when their bench outscored the opposing bench.
• Gonzaga has won 28 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 88-5 at home versus conference opponents.
• In the 320 minutes of conference play, GU has trailed for 6:10. Loyola Marymount had the lead for the longest time, 3:03. The Zags have not trailed in four of their eight WCC games this season.
• GU received one vote in the latest USA Today Coaches' Top 25 poll Tuesday.
• The Bulldogs are ranked 50th in the latest RPI rating, previously 55th before the SMC game.
• Gonzaga is eighth in the country with a 77.5 free-throw percentage.
• Keani Albanez currently leads the conference with 2.6 steals per game. The senior is also fourth in the WCC shooting 87 percent from the free-throw line. She is 17-of-20 in WCC play from the line.
• Sunny Greinacher has made 17 of her 18 (.944) free throws during West Coast Conference play.

ABOUT THE TIGERS
• Pacific had its five-game winning streak snapped with a pair of road losses at San Diego and BYU last week. It had won 10 of 11 prior to those games. It rebounded with a home win over Portland Thursday.
• The Tigers boast the third-best RPI rating of any West Coast Conference team at 60.
• The top two scoring offenses in the conference meet Saturday, Gonzaga at 69.9 and Pacific is 69.8.
• Pacific's +5.95 turnover margin is 19th in the country. It averages a conference-low 13.7 turnovers.
• The Tigers average a WCC-best 7.3 three-pointers made per game at 33.5 percent.
• Kendall Kenyon leads Pacific with 14.5 points per game, while Hallie Eackles adds 10.8.
• Kendall is second in the conference and 16th in the nation averaging 10.9 rebounds per outing.
• Kendall is six rebounds away from 1,000 in her career. She owns the program record.

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday is only the sixth meeting between Gonzaga and Pacific. GU has a 3-2 edge.
• The Zags have won the last two, both being the only meetings in West Coast Conference play, as Pacific joined the league last year.
• Pacific's last win in the series was an 86-85 overtime victory in Spokane in 2002.
• The Bulldogs are 1-1 all-time at Pacific, winning last year's meeting in Stockton, 83-68.
• The Zags won the last meeting, 81-77, in Spokane last season. Sunny Greinacher and Lindsay Sherbert combined for 42 points to close out the regular season.
• Gonzaga won the first meeting, 65-64, in the 1999 Wells Fargo Classic in Tempe, Ariz.

CHASING MILESTONES
• Sunny Greinacher
- Greinacher is currently fifth in program history with a .507 FG Pct.
- Needs two games to equal Stephanie Hawk's 122, which is 10th all-time at GU.
- Needs two points to become 16th on the Gonzaga all-time scoring list.
• Keani Albanez
- Albanez is currently sixth in program history with 408 three-point attempts.
- Needs three made three-pointers to have possession of sixth all-time at 136.
- Needs five games to equal Stephanie Hawk's 122, which is 10th all-time at GU.
- Needs 13 steals to equal Loretta O'Brien's 162, which is 10th all-time at GU.
• Shelby Cheslek
- Cheslek is seventh in program history with 122 blocks, four away from sixth.

STAYING OUT IN FRONT
• In the past 400 minutes of play, the Zags have trailed for 20:54.
• During WCC play this season, GU has been behind for only 6:10 of the 320 minutes.
• In the last 240 minutes at home, Gonzaga has trailed for 14:46.
• Loyola Marymount led for 3:03 in WCC play, but Southern Utah had the lead for the longest during this stretch at 11:54 in the first half of the GU 70-51 win on Dec. 20.
• The Zags have not trailed in four of the eight conference games this season.

CONFERENCE TIME IS TINKLE'S TIME
• Elle Tinkle is averaging 17.1 points per game in conference play, eighth in the WCC.
• In the 11 non-conference games, she averaged 7.7 points.
• In the last nine games, Tinkle has scored 149 points (16.6), shot .500 (49-of-98) from the field, and 15-of-40 (.375) 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 84 appearances for Gonzaga. Those three times have been in the last seven games.

GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS
• Georgia Stirton has seen her points per game average go from 3.9 in non-conference games to 8.3 in conference play. Her current overall average is 5.7.
• Her shooting percentage from behind-the-arc in the first 11 non-conference games was .250 (3-of-12). She is 14-of-41 (.452) in WCC play from three-point range.
• Stirton currently has the second-best field goal percentage in conference play, making 22-of-42 from the field (.524).
• She is 8-for-11 on shots from within the three-point arc in conference play.
• This season she is 17-of-28 from inside-the-arc (.607).

HOME SWEET HOME IN WCC PLAY
• GU has won 28 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 43-1 against conference opponents at home, outscoring them by an average, 78-56.
• At home against conference opponents, the Zags are 88-5 (.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 143-17 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 82-4 (.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.