rv/rv Gonzaga (14-5, 6-2) at Pacific (6-12, 4-4)
Game 21 | Jan. 23 | 1 p.m. PT | Spanos Center | Stockton, Calif.
SERIES: Gonzaga leads, 7-1
LAST MEETING: 2015 - Gonzaga won 86-74 in Stockton, Calif.
TELEVISION: TWCSN/KHQ/ROOT Sports (Barry Tompkins, Casey Jacobsen)
RADIO: 1510 KGA/Sirius XM/TuneIn App (Tom Hudson, Matt Santangelo)
LIVE VIDEO: TheW.tv | LIVE STATS: GoZags.com | LIVE AUDIO: 1510kga.com
NOTES: Gonzaga - Pacific

STORYLINES
- Last time out: Gonzaga lost to Saint Mary's for the first time since 2012 in Moraga, breaking an eight-game winning streak over SMC.
- Gonzaga has won five in a row and seven of eight overall against Pacific, with the lone loss coming in 1977 in Stockton, Calif.
- Last season at Pacific, Kyle Wiltjer had one of the biggest games in GU history with 45 points on 15-for-22 shooting.
- The BYU loss was GU's third home loss of the season, marking the first time since the 1990-91 season to reach three home losses.
- GU's three-point shooting has jumped significantly in WCC play -- .335 in non-conference games vs. .449 in conference games.
- Kyle Wiltjer and Domantas Sabonis have logged 35.1 and 33.2 minutes per game since Karnowski's injury, compared to 29.4 and 23.2 prior.
- Redshirt freshman Josh Perkins has come up huge for GU in WCC play, averaging 12.3 points and 4.3 assists with a 3.40:1 asst/TO ratio.
- HBO is filming a special on Gonzaga Basketball chronicling the season, which will debut Feb. 16 at 10 p.m. as a five-part weekly series.

ABOUT GONZAGA
- Gonzaga has had a higher field goal percentage than 17 of 19 opponents and only been outrebounded two times in those 18 games.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging a double-double at 17.8 points and 11.1 rebounds/game (No. 7 in the NCAA) while shooting .631 from the floor, which ranks him first in the WCC in rebounding and second in field goal percentage.
- Sabonis posted his league-leading 10th double-double of the season with 17 points and 13 rebounds at Saint Mary's. He's missed a double-double by either one point or one rebound three other times this season.
- Kyle Wiltjer leads the league in scoring at 21.6 points per game, and has had 20-plus 12 times this season along with double figures in 17 of 19. He had just his second single-digit game of the year at Saint Mary's with six points.
- Wiltjer and Sabonis have combined total four 20-point halves. Wiltjer has three (WSU, UA, LMU) and Sabonis has one (UT).
- Head coach Mark Few is the winningest active coach in NCAA Division I by percentage at .807 (452-108).
- Gonzaga was picked to win the WCC regular season title by the league's coaches receiving all nine possible first-place votes.

ABOUT PACIFIC
- Interim head coach Mike Burns took over for Ron Verlin and has compiled a 4-6 record, including a 4-4 mark in WCC play.
- Three Tigers are averaging double figures, led by Ray Bowles 12.0 ppg -- Alec Kobre at 11.8 and T.J. Wallace at 11.2 are the others.
- Kobre is a solid three-point threat for Pacific, making 29 threes on 46 percent shooting this season.
- Pacific has won three of their last four games, including a pair of WCC wins over Portland and Loyola Marymount.
- After starting the season 1-8, Pacific is 5-4 in their last nine games.

WILTJER BACK AT PACIFIC
Kyle Wiltjer returns to the scene of his career-high 45-point outburst at Pacific last season. The Zag forward knocked down 15 of 22 shots for the third-highest scoring game in school history. It was the highest for a Zag in 54 years, dating back to Frank Burgess' 52 points on Jan. 26, 1961. It was highest-scoring game ever by a Pacific opponent and the most points in the history of the Alex G. Spanos Center.

BOUNCEBACKS
Gonzaga has followed each of its last nine losses up with a victory, having not lost back-to-back games since Feb. 20-22, 2014, at BYU and at San Diego. What's even more impressive is in those nine games following a loss, GU's margin of victory is +24.9 points, with only two of those nine games being a single-digit scoring margin.

FEW vs. WCC NOTES
- Few is 217-27 all-time against the WCC, a winning percentage of .889. - Few has led GU to four undefeated WCC campaigns (2004, '06, '09, '13) and four one-loss WCC seasons (2001, '02, '08, '15). - Under Few, Gonzaga has not lost more than three WCC games in any year, and never finished lower than second in the regular season race.

FROM WAY DOWNTOWN, BANG
Gonzaga has been hot from behind the arc in WCC play, shooting a combined .449 (66-147) in eight league games. That was especially apparent in the first two WCC games -- at home against Pepperdine and LMU. Combined, the Zags went 26 for 44 (.591) in those two games. Gonzaga's last game, against San Diego, was another sharp-shooting display with GU going 11-for-18 (.611). All of that came after starting the season shooting .335 in the first 11 games. GU's season percentage is now at .382. The 16 total threes against Pepperdine were the most for a Gonzaga team since March 1, 1999 (546 games) and the most in the Mark Few era.

WEST COAST CONFERENCE RANKS
TEAM
- GU ranks No. 1 in the league in three-point field goal percentage defense at .288
- GU ranks No. 1 in the league in free-throw shooting at .746
- GU ranks No. 1 in the league in defensive rebounds per game at 29.84 and No. 2 in total rebounds per game at 40.79.
- GU ranks No. 1 in the league in field goal percentage defense (.397) and No. 2 in the league in field goal percentage (.493).
INDIVIDUAL
- Domantas Sabonis ranks No. 1 in the league in rebounding (11.1/game) and defensive rebounding (8.32/game)
- Sabonis ranks No. 1 in field goal percentage at .631 (based on attemps per NCAA reports)
- Sabonis ranks No. 1 in the league in double-doubles with 10
- Kyle Wiltjer ranks No. 1 in the league in field goals made with 145...Sabonis is No. 2 at 130
- Wiltjer ranks No. 2 in the league in free throw percentage at .872...Sabonis is No. 5 at .819
- Wiltjer ranks No. 1 in the league in scoring at 21.6 points per game...Sabonis is No. 6 at 17.8
- Kyle Dranginis ranks No. 2 in the league in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.17:1