Gonzaga (21-7, 13-3) at San Diego (8-19, 3-13)
Game 30 | Feb. 25 | 7 p.m. PT | Jenny Craig Pavilion | San Diego, Calif.
SERIES: Gonzaga leads, 66-21
LAST MEETING: 2016 - Gonzaga won 88-52 in Spokane, Wash.
TELEVISION: KHQ/ROOT Sports (Steve Quis, 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 - San Diego

STORYLINES
- Last time out: Gonzaga was swept by Saint Mary's for the first time since 1995, and suffered its first WCC sweep since 1997.
- Gonzaga defeated San Diego earlier this year for the third straight time and 36th time in the last 39 meetings.
- Gonzaga is 7-2 on the road this season, with the lone losses coming at SMU and at Saint Mary's.
- GU currently sits tied with Saint Mary's at 13-3 for the top spot in the WCC standings heading into the regular season's final week.
- Gonzaga has the nation's third-longest active streak of games played without back-to-back losses: Villanova 98, Kansas 91, Gonzaga 74.
- Gonzaga has held nine straight opponents under 70 points, and 11 of the last 12 under 70.
- Gonzaga has taken care of the ball in WCC play, averaging 10.2 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 28 opponents and only been outrebounded three times in those 28 games.
- Domantas Sabonis is averaging a double-double at 17.3 points and 11.6 rebounds/game (No. 8 in the NCAA) while shooting .614 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 has 11 in the past 14 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 21.0 points per game (No. 17 in the NCAA), and has had 20-plus 17 times this season along with double figures in 25 of 28 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 .807 (459-110).

ABOUT SAN DIEGO
- Head coach Lamont Smith is in his first season at San Diego and has an 8-19 record thus far. Smith played at USD from 1994-99.
- USD is in the middle of a five-game losing streak after beating LMU and Pacific in back-to-back games.
- Duda Sanadze is the only Torero to average double figures at 11.7 points per game. He had a game-high 21 vs. GU in Spokane.
- Jito Kok is one of the premier rim protecters in the league, leading the WCC in blocks with 68 at 2.5 per game.
- Vasa Pusica leads the Toreros in assists with 65 on the season, an average of 2.4 per game.

FOUR IN DOUBLE FIGURES
For the first time this year, four Gonzaga players are averaging double figures with Josh Perkins and Eric McClellan each at 10.0 to go along with Kyle Wiltjer's 21.0 and Domantas Sabonis' 17.3 points per game. Perkins bumped his average up significantly with his 21-point performance against Saint Mary's and McClellan has been steady over the last six games scoring at least 13 points in three of those.

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 64.3 points per game over the last 13 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 13-game span, Gonzaga has held opponents to just 40.9 percent shooting overall and just 25.6 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 11 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. Overall, the Zags have gone 75 games without having lost two straight, giving them the third-longest active streak in the nation behind Villanova's 98 and Kansas' 91.

NOTES FROM THE LAST 5 GAMES
- Domantas Sabonis is leading the team in scoring and rebounding at 17.4 points and 12.2 rebounds per game.
- Domantas Sabonis has made 29-of-46 (.630) from the field and is 28-of-34 on free throws (.824). - Kyle Wiltjer is 10-for-10 from the free throw line.
- Josh Perkins is averaging 11.2 points, 5.8 assists and 1.4 steals per game with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.22:1.
- Silas Melson is 18-for-31 (.581) from the field and 7-for-14 (.500) from the three-point line.
- Kyle Dranginis is averaging 3.4 rebounds per game, 3.4 assists per game.
- GU has made 16 more threes and 25 more free throws than its opponents.
- Gonzaga is averaging just 9.2 turnovers per game while forcing opponents into 11.2 per game.
- The top four guards (Perkins, Melson, McClellan, Dranginis) are all averaging between 7.8 and 11.2 points per game.

FEW vs. WCC
- Few is 224-28 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.