#2/2 Gonzaga (26-2, 13-0) vs. BYU (18-11, 10-4)
FEB. 23 | 7 P.M. | SPOKANE | McCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER
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THE TIP-OFF:
- Gonzaga and BYU meet for the 22nd time on Saturday in Spokane, at
7 p.m. The Zags have a 15-6 advantage in the series.
- Gonzaga has won four of the seven Spokane matchups in the series, all coming inside the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- Gonzaga is coming off a 92-64 win over Pepperdine Thursday. Rui Hachimura led the Zags with 23 points. Josh Perkins scored 10 points and dished out nine assists. Zach Norvell Jr. added 21 points and Brandon Clarke had 16 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks.
- The Bulldogs clinched their seventh straight West Coast Conference regular season title.
- GU owns the longest active win streak in the country at 17.
- Clarke is first in the nation in field goal percentage (69.2), third with 87 blocks, and third averaging 3.11 blocks. Josh Perkins is sixth in the country with 192 assists and is seventh averaging 6.86 assists.
- The Zags are first in the nation in field goal percentage (53.1 percent), first in scoring margin (25.1), first in scoring offense (90.3), first in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.8), and second with 521 total assists.
- Through the first 13 games, the Bulldogs are outscoring their conference opponents by an average of 28 points.
 
SERIES NOTES:
-  This is the 22nd all-time meeting between Gonzaga and BYU. The Zags have a 15-6 advantage in the series, with all 21 matchups coming under Mark Few.
- The Zags snapped a three-game BYU win streak in Spokane
with a 68-60 victory last season. Rui Hachimura scored 15
points and Josh Perkins added 14 points and seven assists.
- Gonzaga has won four of the seven Spokane matchups in
the series, all coming inside the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- Gonzaga cruised to a 93-63 win at BYU earlier this season. Brandon Clarke scored 23 points and Rui Hachimura added 20. Corey Kispert had 16 points and Josh Perkins dished out 10 assists. The Bulldogs shot 37-for-63 (59 percent) from the field — including 10-for-20 from 3-point range.
- GU has won six of the eight meetings in Provo, including
the last five matchups at BYU.
- GU has won all five of the meetings against the Cougars in
the WCC Tournament, including in the 2014, 2015 and 2018 championship games.
- The Cougars won the first-ever meeting, 89-67, in the third
round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament in Denver, Colo.
 
SCOUTING THE COUGARS          
- BYU is coming off of a 77-71 loss at home to San Francisco Thursday.
- The Cougars' Yoeli Childs had a game-high 28 points and 14 rebounds and TJ Haws added 25 points.
- USF came back from being down 14 points with eight minutes remaining to defeat the Cougars and sweep the season series against BYU.
- Childs is second in the conference averaging 21.3 points per game, and is first at 9.7 rebounds per game.
- Haws is sixth in the league averaging 17.8 points per outing. He is fourth dishing out 5.1 assists per game. Haws tops the WCC shooting 87.1 percent from the free-throw line.
 
A ZAG WIN WOULD ...
- Be Gonzaga's 40th straight over an unranked team.
- Extend Gonzaga's national best conference win streak record to 28, including WCC Tournament games, 25 without.
- Extend GU's home win streak to 22 games, which would be the fifth-longest streak in program history.
- Improve Josh Perkins' record to 128-17 in games he has played in for Gonzaga.
 
THAT'S SEVEN STRAIGHT
- Gonzaga's win over Pepperdine clinched the 2019 West Coast Conference regular season title.
- The Zags have either shared or owned the West Coast Conference regular season title outright in each of the last seven seasons.
- The Bulldogs have had at least a share of 18 of the last 19 conference championships, and 20 out of the last 22 years.
 
NEW LEADER AT POINT GUARD U.:
- Josh Perkins broke Gonzaga's career assist record in the win over Pepperdine.
- Perkins needed eight assists to set the new mark and he finished the game with nine.
- He surpassed Matt Santangelo's previous record of 668, which was set from 1997 to 2000.
- Perkins' 670 career assists rank sixth all-time in West Coast Conference history.
 
ONE AWAY FROM UNBLEMISHED:
- The Zags are one win from finishing an undefeated record at home this season.
- The potential 17-0 record would be the fourth unbeaten home record in program record, with the last coming in 2013-14. GU finished that season undefeated in WCC play.
- Gonzaga has finished perfect at home in conference action eight previous times, with the last time coming in 2013-14.