STORYLINES
- Gonzaga has beaten Montana nine straight times and 12 of the last 13 overall, but hasn't faced the Griz since 2008.
- The teams are former Big Sky Conference foes, with the Zags leaving the league after the 1979 season.
- Gonzaga was without center Przemek Karnowski (back) for the second straight game against Arizona. The Washington State game was Karnowski's first-career game missed due to injury.
- Against Arizona, Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis combined to score 51 of Gonzaga's 63 total points.
- Gonzaga's top three big men - 7-1 Przemek Karnowski, 6-11 Domantas Sabonis and 6-10 Kyle Wiltjer - combine to score 41.6 points per game, amounting to 57 percent of the offense.
- GU has followed up its last five losses with a win (dating back to 2/22/14), and 18 of its last 19 losses with a win (dating back to 12/10/11)

ABOUT GONZAGA
- Gonzaga has had a higher field goal percentage than all seven opponents and outrebounded six of seven opponents this season.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging nearly a double-double at 14.1 points and 10.4 rebounds/game while shooting .623 (43-69) from the floor.
- Sabonis posted his second double-double of the season with 18 points and 16 rebounds against UA. He's missed a double-double by either one point or one rebound three other times this season.
- Gonzaga is 4-1 when Sabonis scores double figures, and 1-1 when he scores less than 10 points.
- Kyle Wiltjer leads the team in scoring at 21.3 points per game, and has had 20-plus four times this season and double figures in all seven.
- Wiltjer had the second-highest scoring game of his career with 33 against Arizona. He had 20 in the first half for the second straight game.
- Head coach Mark Few is the winningest active coach in NCAA Division I by percentage at .808 (443-105).
- Gonzaga was picked to win the WCC regular season title by the league's coaches receiving all nine possible first-place votes.
- Gonzaga has won at least 20 games for 18 consecutive seasons.

ABOUT MONTANA
- Head coach Travis Decuire is in his second season at the helm of the Griz program and has a 23-16 record.
- UM is coming off an 82-50 win over GU's WCC counterpart San Francisco in which the Griz turned a four-point halftime lead into a rout.
- The Griz have just six returning letterwinners, including Martin Breunig who averaged 20.7 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.
- Walter Wright averages 10.5 points and just shy of 3.0 assists per game.
- The Griz averaged nearly 10 offensive rebounds per game and are holding opponents to just 64.8 points per game.

JUST WIN
Gonzaga consistently ranks among the nation's top programs when it comes to its win total over any span of seasons in the last 15 years, but even more so recently. Since the start of the 2011-12 season, GU has racked up 152 wins, the seventh-highest total in the NCAA. Over the last two-plus seasons, Gonzaga is tied for the fourth-highest win total of 69 with Villanova and behind only Kentucky, Wisconsin and Arizona.

20 IN A HALF...TWICE
Senior Kyle Wiltjer has had two of the hottest streaks of his high-scoring career at Gonzaga in the last two games. Against Arizona and Washington State, Wiltjer scored 20 points in the first half of both games. Most recently against UA, Wiltjer knocked down just two threes, but was 8-for-12 from the field with a dizzying array of post moves and mid-range buckets. in the first 10:00 of the Washington State game, he also poured in 20 points, including four three-pointers. He had 20 of the first 27 Gonzaga points in the game and had GU out to a 27-14 lead to open the game. During the span, Wiltjer made 8-of-11 from the field and 4-of-5 from downtown.

TWO-MAN WRECKING CREW
Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis combined for 51 points against Arizona on Dec. 5, the highest teammate total for GU since Wiltjer (45) and Gary Bell Jr. (12) combined for 57 at Pacific. Against Arizona, Wiltjer poured in 33 and Sabonis added 18, while the pair had GU's first 26 points (Wiltjer 16, Sabonis 10) of the game.

MORE Kyle Wiltjer SCORING NOTES
- Scored in double figures in all seven games
- Scored 20-plus four times in seven games (30-plus once)
- Scored 33 against Arizona, second-highest total of career (45 at Pacific 2/19/15)
- Only had one game this season with less than 17 points (12 vs. Mount St. Mary's 11/21/15)
- Dating back to last season, Wiltjer has double figures in eight straight games and 13 of the last 14

Domantas Sabonis: REBOUNDING MACHINE
After leading the team in rebounding as a freshman last season at 7.1 per game, forward Domantas Sabonis is averaging a team-best 10.4 rebounds per game this season. He's already had three games with at least 14 rebounds, including a career-high 16 against then-19th-ranked Arizona on Dec. 5. Sabonis has two double-doubles this season and has missed a double-double by one point or one rebound on three other occasions.

REBOUNDING AND DEFENSE
Gonzaga's keys to winning lie in its defense and rebounding, which is evident in its NCAA Statistical rankings. Rebounding Defensive Rebounds per game - 8th (31.86) Rebound margin - 25th (+9.6) Total Rebounds per game - 22nd (43.43) Defense Scoring defense - 26th (61.7) FG pct. defense - 21st (36.5) 3FG pct. defense - 2nd (22.9)

ALL ABOUT THAT DEFENSE
For the second straight season, Gonzaga ranks in the top 35 in both field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense. The Zags were one of four teams to end the 2014-15 season ranked in the top 25 in both categories. GU is 35th in FG percentage (.488) and 21st in FG percentage defense (.365). A large part of that is perimeter defense where Gonzaga ranks No. 2 in the nation in three-point FG percentage defense (.229).