Gonzaga University Athletics

SOPHOMORE (2015-16)
Named Preseason All-West Coast Conference … appeared in all 36 games … started in final 31 games … earned All-West Coast Conference and NABC All-District First Team honors … ranked second on the team at 17.6 points per game … led the WCC with 11.8 rebounds per game (No. 6 nationally) and 23 double-doubles (No. 5 nationally) … ranked second in the league with a .611 field goal percentage … scored in double figures 32 times and had 20-plus in 12 of those contests … AP Honorable Mention All-American … NCAA All-Tournament Midwest Region selection … named a CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American … CoSIDA Academic All-District first-teamer … WCC All-Academic first-teamer … WCC Tournament All-Tournament Team … USBWA All-District … WCC Player of the Week (Nov. 23, Dec. 21) … Campus Insiders Weekly “Best of the West” … James H. Naismith Top 50 … Oscar Robertson Trophy Preseason Watch List … John R. Wooden Preseason Top 50 … John R. Wooden Midseason Top 25 … Kareem Abdul Jabbar Finalist … left Gonzaga as the program’s all-time leader in career field goal percentage at .632 … in just two seasons, he scored 1,002 points to become the 41st player in school history to score 1,000 points … selected the 11th pick of the 2016 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic, before being traded immediately to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

 

Played in all 38 games with one start and averaged 9.7 points per game...Led the team in rebounding with 7.1 per game (5th in WCC) and in field goal percentage at .688...Earned All-WCC Second Team, All-WCC Freshman Team, NIT All-Tournament Team and NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team...Scored in double figures 20 times, with a career-high 19 in lone start of the season against St. Thomas Aquinas...Tallied four double-doubles including back-to-back 13-point, 11-rebound efforts against Portland and Memphis at home that earned him WCC Player of the Week honors on Feb. 2...Had 18 points and 12 rebounds in two-point win at Pepperdine (9-9 FG) and 10 points and 11 rebounds in win over St. Joseph's...Averaged 11.5 points and 8.0 rebounds in four NCAA Tournament games, including 18 points and nine rebounds in Third Round win over Iowa...Had 15 points and six rebounds in WCC title-game victory over BYU...Grabbed double-figured rebounds on six occasions...Had two separate double-digit streaks of consecutive made field goals (13, 11) that each spanned multiple games.

 

6-10, 210-pound forward from Lithuania...Son of NBA Naismith Hall of Famer and Portland Trail Blazers great Arvydas Sabonis...At 18 was youngest member of Unicaja Malaga, but did not sign a contract with the Spanish club because of his desire to play collegiately in the United States...Played in 35 games in 2013-14 for Unicaja Malaga, averaging 2.7 points and 2.2 rebounds per game...Was the youngest Unicaja player to debut in ACB (first-tier pro league in Spain) at 17 years, 5 months, 10 days...Played for Lithuania in the 2012 FIBA U-16 European tournament, averaging 14.1 ppg, 14.4 rpg and 2.4 assists/game...Grabbed a tournament-high 27 rebounds against Poland in the tournament...Averaged 14.0 ppg, a tournament high 11.4 rpg and 1.4 assists/game in the 2013 FIBA U-18 European tournament where he had a double-double of 22 points and 22 rebounds against Serbia in a 74-70 overtime victory...As 16-year-old, made debut with Unicaja Malaga in 2012 in a game against Cibona Zagreb...On October 18, 2013, he debuted in the Euroleague against the two-time defending champions Olympiacos Piraeus...Named as one of best young European players in 2014...Born in Portland in 1996 between games four and five of the Trail Blazers' first-round matchup with the Utah Jazz.