SPOKANE, Wash. – Gonzaga men's basketball head coach Mark Few announced the signing of Sam Funches.
 
Sam Funches
7-0 | 205 | Forward | Madison, Miss. (Germantown)
 
Funches is a four-star recruit according to ESPN and 247Sports. He ranks as the 42nd top recruit in his class on Rivals. The top-ranked ranked player in Mississippi is a consensus top-10 center in the class of 2026 and ranked as high as No. 8 by On3.com.
 
Funches helped Germantown to its first state championship last year in the MHSAA Class 7A playoffs after beating Madison Central 69-52. He averaged 14.7 points, 8.8 rebounds, 4.7 blocks and 1.7 assists during the 2024-25 season. He is a two-time Clarion Ledger Dandy Dozen and Clarion Ledger First-Team selection. On the Puma PRO16 Circuit this past summer, he averaged 11.0 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.7 blocks, and 1.1 assists with Team Sipp United.
 
"They have the perfect play style for me and they put their bigs in the league," Funches told On3 of Gonzaga.
 
"They see me being basically a versatile big who'll do floaters, shoot threes, play down low and in the mid post," Funches told 247Sports. "Going to Gonzaga will be good for me as I develop and try and achieve my goals. I want to make it to the NBA and here I get to play against great players and improve."