Pacific Tigers

Gonzaga's success story challenged them to invest more, recruit harder and develop better. And the WCC is reaping the rewards.

Gonzaga and the West Coast Conference have avoided being caught in realignment chaos. Until now.

Seth Davis on what he is hearing about 20 key names to watch as the hot seat warms on certain college basketball coaches.

Brian Bennett answers readers’ questions about mid-major programs around the country.

Penny Hardaway is the most high-profile former NBA player to move to the college sideline, but he's far from the only one.

The focus here is on rising assistants and head coaches who aren't in fairly prominent jobs yet.

Mark Few apologizes for taking several days to return a call. The Gonzaga coach hasn’t had much free time since the season ended, between attending the Final Four, hitting the recruiting trail and working the transfer market. “April, man,” he says. Few and his staff spent the final weekend of...

The transfers have started, with decisions on new schools coming by the day and at times by the hour. Bookmark this tracker to stay up to date with all the latest news on transfers. CONTACT — E-mail thefieldhouse@theathletic.com with tips and news. Sources remain confidential. Keep track of the...

For news updates, tidbits and more on college basketball transfers, go to the Transfer Tracker. CONTACT — E-mail: thefieldhouse@theathletic.com with tips and news.  Sources remain confidential. Some of the notable players transferring this offseason (updated May 10): Standard transfers...

While Duke-North Carolina and Kentucky-Louisville are often tabbed as the “best” rivalries in college basketball, there isn’t a battle where more is regularly on the line than Saint Mary’s-Gonzaga. One of the teams has won the last 15 WCC regular season titles (they’ve split twice), and...

1 Rhode Island (16-3, 8-0): The Rams’ 11-game winning streak is the longest for the program in 70 years, and the average margin of victory during the run is 14.7 points. (Last week: 1) This week: A home game against Duquesne on Saturday could be interesting, then Tuesday it’s off to...

For most of his first year-and-a-half at Gonzaga, Rui Hachimura was a curiosity. The 6-foot-8 forward was believed to be just the fifth Japanese-born player to compete in Division I. Japanese reporters often chronicled his performances, even as he played sparingly as a freshman, and his intriguing...

When Western Kentucky head coach Rick Stansbury was setting up the Hilltoppers schedule for the season, he had reason to make it challenging. After all, he had quite possibly the most highly-anticipated team in his program’s history, and the Hilltoppers deserved high-profile games. The only...

Lamont Smith was a tough-nosed, defensive-oriented player for San Diego in the 1990s. After his second season coaching his alma mater, Smith says he and his assistants were “sick to our stomachs” about how poorly the Toreros guarded during a 13-18 campaign. He also paid attention to how South...

Killian Tillie played 12 minutes per game last year, but to look at the 6-foot-10 sophomore forward’s minutes is to undersell his impact on Gonzaga’s national runner-up team. He was the team’s secret weapon, Mark Few’s “problem solver” whenever he needed to counteract something an...