SPOKANE, Wash. – The No. 2/2 Gonzaga men's basketball team hits the road for No. 23/rv BYU on Saturday.
 
#2/2 Gonzaga (27-1, 13-0 WCC) vs. #23/rv BYU (22-7, 11-3 WCC)
FEB. 22 | 7 p.m. PT/8 p.m. MT | MARRIOTT CENTER | PROVO, UTAH
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THE TIP OFF:
- Gonzaga and BYU meet for the 25th time on Saturday in Provo, at 7 p.m. The Zags have a 18-6 advantage in the series, and have won six straight versus the Cougars.
- Last season in Provo, Gonzaga cruised to a 93-63 win at BYU. Corey Kispert had 16 points. The Zags shot 59 percent from the field, including 10-of-20 from 3-point range.
- GU has won six of the eight meetings in Provo, including
the last five matchups at BYU.
- The Zags are coming off of a 71-54 win at home over San Francisco Thursday. Killian Tillie scored 22 points.
- The Bulldogs have clinched a share of their eighth straight West Coast Conference regular season title, 23rd overall.
- Gonzaga's 40 straight regular season conference wins is currently the longest streak of its kind in the nation.
- The Zags are the lone team in the nation to have seven players averaging double-digit scoring per game, no other team has more than five averaging double-digit scoring.
- The Bulldogs have the country's third-longest win streak currently at 19 consecutive victories.
- The Zags' 18 consecutive true road wins is currently the longest active streak in the country. Gonzaga has won 39 straight conference road contests.
- GU's 37 straight wins at home is the longest active streak in the nation, and third longest in program history.
- Gonzaga has clinched its 13th straight 25-win season. 
- The Bulldogs are first in the nation in scoring offense (87.9), scoring margin (21.1), second in field goal percentage (51.6), third in total assists (480), fourth in rebound margin (8.7) and fifth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.50).
 and three-point percentage (39.4) and sixth in total rebounds (1,087). 

SERIES NOTES:
- This is the 25th all-time meeting between Gonzaga and BYU. The Zags have a 18-6 advantage in the series, with all 24 matchups coming under Mark Few.
- The Zags have won the last six meetings, including the latest, Killian Tillie had 22 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 1 Gonzaga beat BYU 92-69, in Spokane on Jan. 18.
- GU has won six of the eight meetings in Provo, including
the last five matchups at BYU.
- Last season in Provo, Gonzaga cruised to a 93-63 win at BYU. 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.
- Gonzaga has won six of the nine Spokane matchups in
the series, all coming inside the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- 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 an 85-75 win over Santa Clara Thursday. Three Cougars scored 20 points or more, led by TJ Haws' 28 points. Yoeli Childs and Jake Toolson both recorded double-doubles, Childs put up 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, while Toolson tallied 20 points and 10 rebounds.
- The Cougars have won seven straight games, since losing at San Francisco, 83-82, on Jan. 25.
- Four Cougars average double-digit scoring, led by Childs' 20.8 points per game. Toolson scores 15.4 points per game. Haws adds 14.5 points per outing. Childs adds a team-high 8.6 rebounds and is shooting 57.7 percent from the field.
- BYU leads the nation shooting 42.2 percent from three-point range. The Cougars are second with 307 made threes and 507 total assists. They are third in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.58) and field goal percentage (50.1).

A ZAG WIN WOULD ...
- Extend the nation's third-longest active win streak to 20.
- Improve the nation's current longest road win streak to 20.
- Extend the Bulldogs' conference regular season win streak to 41 victories.
- Improve the national best conference road win streak to 40.
- Be GU's 26th consecutive road win over an unranked team.
- Be the 22nd straight win for GU in the month of February.

THAT'S EIGHT STRAIGHT:
- Gonzaga's win over San Francisco clinched at least a share of the 2019-20 West Coast Conference regular season title. The Bulldogs need one win to claim the crown outright.
- The Zags have either shared or owned the West Coast Conference regular season title outright in each of the last eight seasons, including this one.
- GU extended its current nationally-best active streak of regular season titles, owned or shared.
- Bucknell at five straight is the second-longest active streak entering this season (Patriot League), but Bucknell has already been eliminated from winning its regular-season conference title this year. Nevada and Vermont were next on the list (three straight each entering this year).
- The Zags have won or shared 19 of the last 20 conference regular season titles. GU now has 23 WCC titles.
- The win over USF also gave the Bulldogs three byes to the semifinal round of the West Coast Conference Tournament in the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas on March 9.
- Gonzaga has won in the WCC tournament semifinals in each of the past 22 years. The Zags last loss in the WCC semifinals was 1994, 83-75, to San Diego in Santa Clara.

ZAGS VERSUS RANKED WCC FOES:
- Saturday will be the first-ever ranked matchup between Gonzaga and BYU. It will be the first time BYU has been ranked against versus the Bulldogs since Brigham Young's 2011 NCAA Tournament win over GU.
- Since 2007-08, there have been six matchups between ranked teams in the West Coast Conference, and Gonzaga has won all six. Only one of those games was decided by single digits.
3/1/08 – at No. 24 Gonzaga 88, No. 25 Saint Mary's 76
1/29/09 – at No. 20 Gonzaga 69, No. 22 Saint Mary's 62
1/14/17 – at No. 5 Gonzaga 79, No. 21 Saint Mary's 56
2/11/17 – No. 1 Gonzaga 74, at No. 20 Saint Mary's 64
3/7/17 – No. 4 Gonzaga 74, No. 19 Saint Mary's 56
 (WCC Tournament Finals)
2/10/18 – No. 12 Gonzaga 78, at No. 11 Saint Mary's 65

BALANCING ACT:
- Gonzaga is the only program in the nation with seven players averaging double-digit scoring. No other teams in the country have more than five averaging double-digit scoring.
- No Division I team in the last 20 years has finished a season with seven players averaging 10.0+ point per game.
- Seven different Zags have already led the team in scoring in a game this season.
- Eight Bulldogs have had multiple double-digit scoring games, with seven GU players reaching 20 points.
- Eight Gonzaga players averaging at least three rebounds per outing, and four dishout at least two assists per game.
- The Zags have had seven different players lead a game in assists so far this season, and five have led in rebounds.
- GU has had at least four double-digit scorers in all but two games this season. (Four in 9 games, Five in 12 games, Six in 4 games and Seven in 1 game)

LIFE ON THE ROAD:
- The Zags' 18-straight true road wins is currently the longest streak in the nation, and according to Elias Sports Bureau, over the last 20 seasons, the only other team to win 17-plus straight road games is Memphis (also 17 straight from Jan. 2007 to March 2008). The longest streak all-time is Kansas with 35 straight back in the 1920s.
- Since the 2005-06 season, Gonzaga is 216-65 in road or neutral games. The Zags' 76.3-win percentage in road or neutral games tops the nation over that span.
- Also since the 2007-08 season, the Zags are 107-25 in true road games. GU's 80.2-win pct. in true road games is best in the nation over that span.
- The Bulldogs have won 39 straight WCC games on the road, the longest active streak in the country. GU's last loss to a conference opponent on the road was at Saint Mary's, 70-67, on Jan. 21, 2016.
- The last time Gonzaga lost to a WCC opponent that was not BYU or Saint Mary's was on Feb. 22, 2014, at San Diego.
- The Zags have won 51 of their last 52 road games in conference play. Since 2014-15, GU is 49-1 in WCC road games. 
- If you include the WCC Tournament, GU has won 65 of their last 68 road or neutral league contests. 

WIN STREAKS VERSUS THE WCC:
- The Zags currently have win streaks over each West Coast Conference opponent. Here's a look at the current win streaks over league foes, with GU's last loss versus the opponent at home and on the road. The numbers in parenthesis represents the Zags' win streaks at home and on the road.
WCC Opponent    Wins    Last Road Loss    Last Home Loss
Pepperdine    39    2002 (17)    1998 (22)
Loyola Marymount    23    2010 (10)    1991 (30)
Santa Clara    21    2011 (8)    2007 (13)
San Francisco    18    2012 (7)    1989 (30)
Pacific    15    1976 (6)    -- (6)
Portland    12    2014 (11)    2003 (15)
San Diego    11    2014 (5)    2000 (20)
BYU    6    2014 (5)    2017 (3)
Saint Mary's    1    2016 (4)    2018 (1)