Feb. 10, 2016

rv/rv Gonzaga (19-5, 11-2) at Portland (11-15, 5-8)
Game 26 | Feb. 11 | 8 p.m. PT | Chiles Center | Portland, Ore.
SERIES: Gonzaga leads, 95-66
LAST MEETING: 2016 - Gonzaga won 85-74 in Spokane, Wash.
TELEVISION: ESPNU (Roxy Bernstein, Corey Williams)
RADIO: 1510 KGA/Sirius XM/TuneIn App (Tom Hudson, Matt Santangelo)
LIVE VIDEO: WatchESPN.com | LIVE STATS: GoZags.com | LIVE AUDIO: 1510kga.com
NOTES: Gonzaga - Portland

STORYLINES
- Last time out: Gonzaga beat Pepperdine for the 31st straight time, dating back to 2002. Domantas Sabonis had 20 pts, 11 rebs.
- Gonzaga has won four in a row over Portland, 24 of the last 25 and 38 of the last 40.
- Gonzaga is 6-1 on the road this season and has won 16 of its last 17 away from The Kennel.
- Gonzaga has taken care of the ball in WCC play, averaging just 10.5 turnovers/game, compared to 13.3 in 11 non-conference games.
- Gonzaga leads the nation in defensive rebounding at 30.21 per game and is No. 2 in three-point field goal percentage defense at .280.
- Kyle Wiltjer is averaging 2.2 more points per game in WCC play than in non-conference -- 22.8 to 20.6.
- Eric McClellan has recently emerged as a go-to offensive weapon, averaging 11.2 ppg in WCC play, compared to 8.6 in non-conference.
- 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 22 of 24 opponents and only been outrebounded three times in those 24 games.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging a double-double at 17.4 points and 11.5 rebounds/game (No. 8 in the NCAA) while shooting .615 from the floor, which ranks him first in the WCC in rebounding and second in field goal percentage.
- Sabonis posted his league-leading 14th double-double of the season on Saturday at Pepperdine, and eighth in the last 10 games. 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 21.8 points per game (No. 11 in the NCAA), and has had 20-plus 14 times this season along with double figures in 22 of 24 games.
- Wiltjer and Sabonis have combined total five 20-point halves. Wiltjer has four (at WSU, UA, LMU, SCU) and Sabonis has one (vs. UT).
- Head coach Mark Few is the winningest active coach in NCAA Division I by percentage at .808 (455-108).
- Gonzaga was picked to win the WCC regular season title by the league's coaches receiving all nine possible first-place votes.

ABOUT PORTLAND
- Head coach Eric Reveno is in his 10th season leading the UP program and has a 139-173 (59-92 WCC) mark.
- Portland enters the game after a weekend road sweep at Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount.
- The backcourt duo of Alec Wintering and Bryce Pressley lead the Pilots with Wintering at 19.0 points per game and Pressley at 13.6.
- Portland hoists a lot of threes, having made 249-655. By comparison, Gonzaga is 180-of-479 on the season.
- Portland is averaging 79.6 points per game in 13 WCC games this season, but is giving up 81.7.

DEFENSE CARRYING THE LOAD
Since giving up 94 points in an overtime win at San Francisco-- the first 90-plus-point opponent for Gonzaga since a 96-91 OT loss at USF in 2011 -- GU opponents have averaged just 63.3 points per game over the last nine. That includes just two opponents reaching the 70 mark, while two other opponents were held to 48 (USF at home) and 52 (San Diego at home). Over the nine-game span, Gonzaga has held opponents to just 38.5 percent shooting overall and just 23.9 percent from behind the arc.

NOTES FROM THE LAST 5 GAMES
- Kyle Wiltjer is averaging 22.6 points while shooting .563 from the field and .471 from behind the arc, including 16 threes.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging 16.0 points and 13.2 rebounds.
- Eric McClellan 17-for-33 (.515) from the field.
- Ryan Edwards is a team-best 6-for-7 (.857) from the free throw line after going 6-for-6 vs. Santa Clara.
- Kyle Dranginis is averaging 5.2 rebounds per game, 4.2 assists per game and has a fantastic assist-to-turnover ratio of 5.25:1.
- Josh Perkins is averaging 3.8 assists per game.
- Gonzaga has outrebounded opponents by an average of 8.4 rebounds per game.
- GU has made 18 more threes and 25 more free throws than its opponents.
- GU has held opponents to .364 from the field and .248 from the behind the arc.

MORE Kyle Wiltjer SCORING NOTES
- Scored 30-plus five times this season, including a stretch of three straight earlier this year -- 35 vs. BYU, 32 vs. Portland and 30 at USF
- Scored in double figures in 22 of 24 games and when including 2014-15 he has double figures in 27 of the last 30
- Scored 20-plus 15 times this season, including a stretch of six in a row which was snapped at Saint Mary's
- 35 points vs. BYU and Santa Clara tie for the second-highest total of his career (45 at Pacific 2/19/15)
- Topped 1,000 points in his Gonzaga career in BYU game, becoming the 40th Bulldog and second this season (Karnowski) to do so
- Currently No. 20 in the nation in career scoring among active players at 1696 points (535 points at Kentucky)

SABONIS REBOUNDS EVERYTHING IN SIGHT
Domantas Sabonis had one of the most dominating rebounding games in Gonzaga history at Pacific with 20 boards, and then followed it up with 17 at home against Santa Clara. The 20 was his career high and the first 20-rebound game for a GU player since Josh Heytvelt had 22 at Pepperdine in 2007. For the season, Sabonis is averaging 11.5 rebounds per game, which if kept up, would mark the first double-digit rebounder for a season since Paul Cathey's 11.5 per game during the 1977-78 season. Sabonis already has posted 14 double-doubles to rank 10th in the nation and has a team-high 11 games with at least 13 rebounds.

FEW vs. WCC NOTES
- Few is 222-27 all-time against the WCC, a winning percentage of .892.
- 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.