#3/4 Gonzaga (27-2, 13-1 WCC) vs. San Diego (9-20, 2-12 WCC)
THURSDAY, FEB. 27 | 6 P.M. | McCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER | SPOKANE, WASH.
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THE TIP OFF:
- Gonzaga and San Diego meet for the 97th time on Thursday in Spokane, at 6 p.m. The Zags have a 74-22 advantage in the series.
- GU has won 11 straight versus the Toreros, 22 of the last 23, and 44 of the last 47 matchups.
- Gonzaga is 35-5 at home versus San Diego all-time, including 16-0 in the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- GU has won 20 straight games at home in the series, dating back to an 82-70 loss on Feb. 17, 2000.
- The Zags are coming off of a 91-78 loss at No. 23 BYU Saturday. Killian Tillie led GU with 18 points.
- The Bulldogs have clinched a share of their eighth straight West Coast Conference regular season title, 23rd overall.
- The loss at BYU snapped Gonzaga's streaks of 40 straight regular season conference wins, 39 consecutive conference road wins, 19 straight overall wins and 18 straight true road wins.
- GU's 37 straight wins at home is the longest active streak in the nation, and third longest in program history.
- The Zags are the lone team in the nation to have six players averaging double-digit scoring per game, with a seventh scoring 9.9 points per outing.
- Gonzaga has clinched its 13th straight 25-win season.
- The Bulldogs are first in the nation in scoring offense (87.6), scoring margin (20.0), second in field goal percentage (51.2), third in total assists (495), fourth in rebound margin (8.7), fifth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.49), sixth in total rebounds (1,166) and seventh in three-point percentage (38.5) and assists per game (17.1).


SERIES NOTES:
- This is the 97th all-time meeting between Gonzaga and San Diego. GU has a 74-22 lead in the series.
- GU has won 11 straight versus the Toreros, 22 of the last 23, and 44 of the last 47 matchups.
- The Bulldogs are 45-4 against San Diego under Mark Few.
- Gonzaga is 35-5 at home versus San Diego all-time, including 16-0 in the McCarthey Athletic Center.
- GU has won 20 straight games at home in the series, dating back to an 82-70 loss on Feb. 17, 2000.
- The Toreros' last win in the series came on Feb. 22, 2014, 69-66, at San Diego.
- In the meeting earlier this season at San Diego, Joel Ayayi scored 20 points and Filip Petrusev had 17 for Gonzaga, which sprinted past San Diego 94-50.
- Gonzaga is 32-13 all-time at San Diego. The Zags have won 11 of their last 12 at USD.
- The Zags won the first-ever meeting, 72-62, on Feb. 1, 1980, in San Diego.
 
SCOUTING THE TOREROS:
- San Diego is coming off of a 92-63 setback at Saint Mary's Saturday. Braun Hartfield led USD with 15 points, while Yauhen Massalski added 13 points and eight rebounds. Joey Calcaterra had 11 points.
- Prior to the loss in Moraga, the Toreros were in five straight games decided by single-digits, going 1-4 in those contests.
- Hartfield averages a team-best 14.6 points per game, while Calcaterra chips in 11.3 points. Massalski grabs a team-high seven rebounds a game.
 
A ZAG WIN WOULD ...
- Clinch the outright WCC regular season title for GU.
- Improve the nation's current longest home win streak to 38.
- Extend the Bulldogs' conference home win streak to 20.
- Be the 34th straight win over an unranked team at home.
- Improve Mark Few's record in February to 144-23.
- Make Gonzaga 8-0 on Thursdays this season.
 
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.
 
THANKS MO:
- Adam Morrison, who helped usher the Gonzaga men's basketball program into national prominence, will be honored by Gonzaga Athletics on Thursday, during a ceremony prior to GU's game against San Diego.
- Morrison, who will become the third player in program history to have his jersey displayed in the McCarthey Athletic Center, will be present for the ceremony. He will join that of John Stockton and Frank Burgess among those with their jersey numbers hung in the arena.
- Morrison's name was synonymous with college basketball in 2006. He led the Bulldogs to a 29-4 overall record and a No. 5 ranking in the final Associated Press poll.
- Morrison led the nation in scoring in his last year, averaging 28.1 points per game. He was only the second Gonzaga player ever to do so. Morrison was also Gonzaga's seventh John R. Wooden Award Player of the Year candidate and the fourth player to earn Wooden Award All-American. He was named Gonzaga's inaugural Associated Press pre-season selection as a junior, and was a consensus Associated Press All-America first-team pick.
- Morrison also earned National Association of Basketball Coaches Co-Player of the Year and USBWA Oscar Robertson Trophy Co-Player of the Year accolades during 2006.
- Morrison also dominated the West Coast Conference. He earned back-to-back WCC Tournament MVP honors (2005, 2006) and was a two-time WCC First Team honoree.