Gonzaga (21-6, 13-2) vs. Saint Mary's (21-4, 12-3)
Game 29 | Feb. 20 | 7 p.m. PT | McCarthey Athletic Center | Spokane, Wash.
SERIES: Gonzaga leads, 62-28
LAST MEETING: 2016 - Gonzaga lost 70-67 in Moraga, Calif.
TELEVISION: ESPN2 (Clay Matvick, Sean Harrington)
RADIO: 1510 KGA/Sirius XM/TuneIn App (Tom Hudson, Matt Santangelo)
LIVE VIDEO: TheW.tv/WatchESPN.com | LIVE STATS: | LIVE AUDIO: 1510kga.com
NOTES: Gonzaga - Saint Mary's

STORYLINES
- Saturday's game will be prefaced by Gonzaga's Senior Night, which will serve as recognition for outgoing seniors Kyle Wiltjer, Kyle Dranginis, Eric McClellan and manager Tim Stoddard.
- Last time out: Gonzaga bounced back from Saturday's loss to defeat Pacific for the seventh straight time.
- Gonzaga's eight-game winning streak against Saint Mary's was snapped in Moraga earlier this year. Eric McClellan had a GU-high 23 points.
- Gonzaga is 11-3 at home this season, making the Zags 162-12 (.931) all-time inside the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- Gonzaga has held eight straight opponents under 70 points, and 10 of the last 11 under 70.
- Gonzaga has taken care of the ball in WCC play, averaging 10.4 TOs/game, compared to 13.2 in 11 non-conference games.
- Gonzaga leads the nation in three-point field goal percentage defense at .278 and ranks No. 5 the nation in defensive rebounding at 29.59.
- HBO is filming a special on Gonzaga Basketball chronicling the season, which will debuted Feb. 16 at 10 p.m. as a five-part weekly series.

ABOUT GONZAGA
- Gonzaga has had a higher field goal percentage than 24 of 27 opponents and only been outrebounded three times in those 27 games.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging a double-double at 17.7 points and 11.6 rebounds/game (No. 8 in the NCAA) while shooting .621 from the floor, which ranks him first in the WCC in rebounding and second in field goal percentage.
- Sabonis posted his league-leading 17th double-double of the season on Thursday vs. Pacific, and 11th in the last 13 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 21.3 points per game (No. 14 in the NCAA), and has had 20-plus 16 times this season along with double figures in 24 of 27 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 (459-109).

ABOUT SAINT MARY'S
- Head coach Randy Bennett is in his 15th season as the Gaels' head coach with a career- record of 325-149.
- SMC has lost just four games this season, two of which have come in the last five games.
- Sophomore Emmett Naar leads the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game and is second on the team in assists at 6.1 per game.
- Joe Rahon (transfer from Boston College) leads the team in assists at 6.2 per game.
- Saint Mary's leads the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.77:1 and in field goal percentage at .509.

ACADEMICS, TOO
Gonzaga was the only team in the league with three players named to the WCC All-Academic First Team announced by conference officials on Friday. Kyle Wiltjer (3.76, MBA), Kyle Dranginis (3.88, Masters in Organizational Leadership) and Domantas Sabonis (3.46, Sport Management) each earned their first league academic honor. It also marks the first time GU has had three on the first team in a season since the 1999-00 squad had four with Mike Nilson, Ryan Floyd, Matt Santangelo and Jimmy Tricco earn the award.

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 64.4 points per game over the last 12 games. 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 12-game span, Gonzaga has held opponents to just 40.4 percent shooting overall and just 24.5 percent from behind the arc.

BOUNCEBACKS
With the win vs. Pacific following the SMU loss, Gonzaga has followed each of its last 11 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 10 games following a loss, GU's margin of victory is +23.3 points, with only two of those 11 games being a single-digit scoring margin.

NOTES FROM THE LAST 5 GAMES
- Domantas Sabonis is leading the team in scoring and rebounding at 20.2 points and 11.8 rebounds per game.
- Domantas Sabonis has made 35-of-52 (.673) from the field and a team-best 30-of-34 on free throws (.882).
- Silas Melson is averaging 10.8 points per game, knocking down 7-of-16 (.438) from behind the arc and 18-of-33 .545 overall.
- Kyle Dranginis is 18-for-33 (.545) from the field with 22 assists and just four turnovers (5.50:1 A/TO ratio).
- Kyle Dranginis is averaging 4.2 rebounds per game, 4.4 assists per game.
- Josh Perkins is averaging 6.4 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game to go along with a team-high seven steals.
- Gonzaga has outrebounded opponents by an average of 3.0 rebounds per game.
- GU has made 22 more threes and 23 more free throws than its opponents.
- GU has held opponents to just a .272 mark from the behind the arc.
- The top four guards (Perkins, Melson, McClellan, Dranginis) are all averaging between 7.8 and 10.8 points per game.