The Zags will play their first game in the WCC tournament at 2pm on Thursday against the winner of Pepperdine vs Saint Mary's. 

ZAGS LOOK TO WIN TOURNAMENT TITLE
-Gonzaga won the WCC Regular Season Title with a 22-5 record, the most WCC conference wins in GU history
-The Zags had the largest WCC regular season margin of victory in 34 years with a six and a half game lead over second place Pacific
-GU has now won the WCC regular season title 7 times (2026, '22, '21, '17, '16, '13, '09) and the WCC tournament title twice (2018, '09)
- The Zags swept Saint Mary's and San Francisco in the regular season and beat Pacific and Pepperdine twice, giving them series wins over every other team still in the tournament field. 
-Gonzaga had seven more WCC wins than every other team in the conference, the largest WCC winning margin since Pepperdine in 1992
-Gonzaga had 83 doubles in WCC play, setting a new conference record for doubles in a single WCC season

GONZAGA WINS TOP YEARLY WCC AWARDS
- Mark Machtolf was named the WCC Coach of the Year, his sixth time winning the award. He has more than double the career WCC wins of every other coach in the conference.
- Mikey Bell repeated as the WCC Player of the Year for the second year in a row after hitting .430 with 87 total bases in WCC games
-Bell is one of only three players to ever go back to back as WCC Player of the Year (James Meador-2009/10, Duane Larson-1970/71)
-Karsten Sweum is the WCC Pitcher of the Year, throwing the lowest ERA in WCC play (2.62) while striking out 80 batters in 55 IP
- Sweum's .198 BAA made him the only WCC pitcher below .215
- Landon Hood was named the WCC Freshman of the Year after closing out five saves. The former Arizona Gatorade High School Player of the Year struck out 35 batters in 24.2 innings in the WCC
-Maddox Haley, Ryder Young and Justin Feld were also named to All-WCC First Team, while Hood and Ricky Sanchez were named to the All-WCC Second Team. Jacob Wrubleski and Noah Meffert received Honorable mentions

DOING DAMAGE WITH DOUBLES
- The Zags rank 4th nationally in Doubles with 134 Zags logging a 2B
- Mikey Bell is fourth in the nation in doubles with 24 - Bell also has 83 hits, the 12th most of any batter in Division 1 baseball
- Seven Zags have hit ten or more doubles this season

HITTING A STRIDE AT THE PLATE
-Gonzaga's .313 batting average is 17th in Division 1 and the best GU team average since 2008.
- The Zags have 578 hits this season, the 18th most in Division 1 baseball
-Gonzaga's 63 Home Runs is the most in a Bulldog season since 2002 - GU's .493 Slugging Percentage ranks 42nd overall nationally
- The Bulldogs's 35 sacrifice flies is the ninth most in Division 1 baseball
- The Bulldogs have outhit their opponent in 42 of their 52 games this year
- Gonzaga has scored at least six runs in 30 of the last 37 games
- There have been five different Zags with a multi-home run game this season
- Gonzaga has had four games with four or more home runs as a team this year
- GU has had a five hit game from a player five times this year, with Ricky Sanchez, Maddox Haley, Ryder Young, and Mikey Bell (twice) all tying the program record single game hits
- Eight Zags have at least 10 or more multi-hit games this season, with Bell leading with 24

ZAGS GOT DEFENSE
- The Bulldog's 8.30 hits allowed per nine innings is the 37th best rate in Division 1
- Gonzaga's 10 strikeouts per 9 Innings Pitched ranks 30th in D1
- GU's 1.43 WHIP is also good for 62nd overall nationally
- Gonzaga pitchers average 2.18 strikeouts for every walk they give up
- A combined staff ERA of 4.96 ranks as the 70th best in college baseball
- The team's .978 fielding percentage is 42nd best in the country - GU's pitching staff goes deep in starts, as a Zag has thrown over 100 pitches in 15 games
- A Gonzaga pitcher has tossed over ninety pitches in a game 27 times this year