#1/1 Gonzaga (8-0) vs. Washington (6-2)
DEC. 5 | 8 P.M. | SPOKANE | McCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER
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THE TIP-OFF:
- Gonzaga and Washington meet for the 47th time on Wednesday, at 8 p.m., in the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- The Huskies have a 29-17 advantage in the series all-time, but GU has won 11 of the last 12 matchups, including the latest last season in Seattle, 97-70. Zach Norvell Jr. scored 21 points for No. 12 Gonzaga. Six Zags finished in double-figures including Josh Perkins (14 points), Rui Hachimura (12) and Killian Tillie (11). Perkins had eight assists to one turnover.
- The Zags are 35-18 against Pac-12 competition under Mark Few. GU has won its last five meetings against Pac-12 foes.
- The Zags are coming off of a 103-92 win at Creighton. In GU's first true road game of the season, three Bulldogs finished with double-doubles. Norvell Jr. scored 23 of his game-high 28 points in the second half.
 
SERIES NOTES:
- This is the 47th all-time meeting between Gonzaga and Washington.
- The Huskies have a 29-17 advantage in the series all-time, but GU has won 11 of the last 12 matchups, including the latest last season in Seattle, 97-70.
- Johnathan Williams had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Zach Norvell Jr. added 21 points for No. 12 Gonzaga. Six Zags finished in double-figures including Josh Perkins (14 points), Rui Hachimura (12) and Killian Tillie (11). Perkins had eight assists to one turnover.
- Gonzaga has won the last four meetings, dating back to a 99-95 Washington win in Dec. 4, 2005.
- Washington won the first meeting in the series, 23-14, on Feb. 24, 1910.
- The Zags have won 10 of the 21 meetings in Spokane, including all three games inside the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- Eighteen of the last 19 meetings between the programs have come in the month of December.
- The Zags are 35-18 against Pac-12 competition under Mark Few. GU has won its last five meetings against Pac-12 foes.
- Gonzaga's last matchup with a Pac-12 opponent was a 91-74 win over Arizona in the Maui Invitational semifinals.
 
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES:
- Washington is coming off of a 67-63 win at home over UC Santa Barbara Sunday.
- Noah Dickerson scored a game-high 22 points, grabbed a team-high eight rebounds and blocked two shots. Jaylen Nowell added 17 points and five assists. Matisse Thybulle scored 13 points and had six steals.
- The Huskies finished 42 percent from the field and had 13 assists on 21 made shots from the field.
- Nowell is averaging a team-best 18 points per game with a team-high 25 assists. He is shooting 57.6 percent from the field, including 48 percent from behind-the-arc.
- Dickerson is adding 17.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. Thybulle has 22 steals and 20 blocks this season.
 
AGAINST WASHINGTON:
- Josh Perkins is 3-0 in his career against the Huskies. He has totaled 29 points, 14 assists, seven steals in those meetings against UW, shooting 9-of-13 from the field, including 5-of-6 from three-point range.
- Last season at Washington, Perkins scored 14 points with three three-pointers, dished out eight assists to one turnover, and made four steals.
 
A ZAG WIN WOULD ...
- Extend Gonzaga's win streak to nine games.
- Extend GU's win streak in home games to 10.
- Extend the Zags' win streak to 20 in non-conference games at home, and 19 against unranked non-conference opponents at home.
- Be the 22nd straight over an unranked opponent.
- Improve the Bulldogs' record to 36-19 against current Pac-12 members under Mark Few. It would also be the sixth straight win for GU over a Pac-12 opponent.
- Make Gonzaga 105-40 in December games under Mark Few.
- Improve Josh Perkins' record to 109-15 in games he has played in for Gonzaga.
 
PERKINS NAMED WCC PLAYER OF THE WEEK:
- Josh Perkins was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced.
- Perkins guided the No. 1/1 Zags to a pair of wins, including at Creighton in Gonzaga's first true road game of the season.
- The redshirt senior dished out 19 assists in the two games last week, including a career-high 13 in front of nearly 19,000 fans in Omaha.
- Perkins dished out six assists with one turnover in a win over North Dakota State Monday.
- He totaled 23 points for the week. Along with his 13 assists, the Park Hill, Colo., native scored 13 points at Creighton for the double-double.
 
TRIPLE THE DOUBLE-DOUBLES:
- Gonzaga had three players finish with double-doubles in the win at Creighton.
- Rui Hachimura recorded his first collegiate double-double with 22 points and 11 rebounds. Brandon Clarke had his 17th career double-double, and third of the season with 27 points and 10 boards. Josh Perkins scored 13 points and threw out 11 assists, his second double-double of the season and third of his career.
- According to ESPN Stats and Info, it's the first time three Zags have recorded double-doubles in the same game dating back to 1996-97.
- Only five teams have had three players record double-doubles in the same game so far this season according to ESPN Stats and Info.
 
DISHING OUT IN OMAHA:
- Josh Perkins finished with a career-best 13 assists, to one turnover, in front of nearly 19,000 fans in the win at Creighton.
- The 13 assists matched the second-most in a single game in program history, and were the most by a Zag since Derek Raivio tossed out 13 versus Montana on Nov. 21, 2004.
- It's the fifth-most assists by a player in a single game so far this season in the country.
 
SOMETHING ABOUT A SECOND HALF:
- Zach Norvell Jr. scored 23 of his game-high 28 points in the second half at Creighton. After going 2-of-8 from the field, with one made three-pointer, in the first half, he was 7-of-13 from the field in the second half, making five threes.
- Last year against Creighton, Norvell Jr. scored all 21 of his points in the second half in his first collegiate start. He was 0-for-5 from the field in the first half and 7-of-8 in the second half, with four made threes.
- This season Norvell Jr. is 21-of-53 (39.6 percent) from the field in the first half, including 13-of-36 (36.1 percent) from behind-the-arc, and averaging 8.5 points. In the second half he is 25-of-52 (48.1 percent) from the field, 15-of-38 (39.5 percent) from three-point range and averaging 10.1 points.
- In his career, Norvell Jr. is 38.7 percent (87-of-225) from the field in the first half, including 33.3 percent (48-of-144) from behind-the-perimeter, averaging 5.2 points (236). In the second half he is 54.4 percent (117-of-215) from the field, 41.2 percent (56-of-136) from three-point range, averaging 7.8 points (351).