AP Top 25
SPOKANE, Wash. – After defeating then-No.8/7 Stanford 79-73 in front of a sellout crowd Sunday afternoon at the McCarthey Athletic Center, the Gonzaga women's basketball team cracked the top 25 with a No. 24 national ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll released Monday. The Bulldogs received 93 votes in the poll.
The Zags were last ranked in the AP Poll on Nov. 26, 2016 at No. 25. The Zags have now been ranked in the AP Top-25 for 71 weeks all-time. The highest ranking the Zags have ever reached in the poll was No. 15 on March 27, 2010.
Gonzaga is off to an 8-1 start this season, the best start in head women's basketball coach
Lisa Fortier's five seasons and the best since the 2013-14 season which saw the Zags start 8-1. Through nine games, the Zags are averaging 67.3 points per game shooting 40 percent from the floor.
Zykera Rice and
Chandler Smith average double-figures for the Bulldogs at 11.2 and 10.0 points per game, respectively, while
Katie Campbell adds 9.8. Campbell is shooting 55 percent from long range to rank second in the West Coast Conference and 21
st nationally.
Gonzaga will host Washington State Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. at the McCarthey Athletic Center in its first game this season as a ranked program.
