Gonzaga began the NCAA Tournament as a number-10 seed for the second straight year. Gonzaga won their three West Coast Conference tournament games, beating first-seed Pepperdine in a 69–65 overtime game. Gonzaga won their last regular season game to finish 22–8. They had nine straight conference wins, and then dropped three of their next four. Gonzaga won their last two non-conference games to boost their record to 11–5. Later in the season, the Bulldogs were 9–5 after losing three out of four games. The Bulldogs then played their third straight game against a ranked team, number-11 UCLA, winning 59–43. In their next game, they played number-19 Temple and lost 64–48. Gonzaga then played number-one–ranked Cincinnati, losing 75–68. Few has coached winners of seven AP All-American Honorable Mention awards, 2 AP or Wooden Second Team All-American awards, and 2 AP and Wooden First Team All-Americans ( Dan Dickau, 2002 Adam Morrison, 2006).įew started off his Bulldogs coaching tenure by winning his first four games, all against local teams. A member of Few's team won WCC Player of the Year in every year from 2001 to 2008. Template:Update after Under Few, Gonzaga has reached 11 straight WCC Championship games with the two wins under Dan Monson, Gonzaga has won 13 combined WCC Championships. In the WCC Tournament, Few's Gonzaga teams have won 8 of the last 10 championships, including five of the last six (the University of San Diego defeated Gonzaga in the title game in 20). Template:Update afterĭuring Few's tenure as head coach, Gonzaga has won eleven consecutive regular-season conference titles (splitting the title with Pepperdine in 2002). Template:Update after Additionally, Gonzaga is 126–14 (.900) in West Coast Conference play. 802 win percentage, highest among active coaches in D-I. At the start of the 2007/08 season, Few was tied with Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels with an. Mark Few took over as coach of Gonzaga before the 1999/2000 season.
The loss would end Gonzaga's 1997/98 campaign with a 24–10 mark. Gonzaga would play Hawaii in the next round, but would lose 78–70 at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Gonzaga would win their opening round game against Wyoming 69–55 at Arena-Auditorium in Laramie, Wyoming. Monson and Gonzaga would settle for an NIT bid. Gonzaga would reach the WCC Championship Game but lost to San Francisco 80–67, effectively ending Gonzaga's chances of getting into the NCAA Tournament. Gonzaga would finish the regular season with a 21–8 record and a 10–4 record in the WCC, which was good enough for a first place finish. Clemson was ranked fifth at the time, and Gonzaga had previously been 0–15 against nationally ranked teams. The 1997/98 season was Dan Monson's first with Gonzaga, in only his fourth game as head coach, he would lead Gonzaga to winning their first game against a nationally ranked team, pulling off an 84–71 win over Clemson. He assisted head coach Gene Bartow until 1988, when he was brought to Spokane to be an assistant coach for Bulldogs coach Dan Fitzgerald. Monson, son of former Idaho Vandals and Oregon Ducks head coach Don Monson, began his collegiate coaching career in 1986, where he was an assistant coach at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Dan Monson eraĪfter the 1997 season, assistant coach Dan Monson took over as head coach. Frank McKevitt took over for Mulligan during the 1910/11 basketball season, acquiring an 8–1 (.889) record, which was the highest winning percentage for Gonzaga basketball at the time. Varnell was replaced by William Mulligan the following season, who acquired an 11–3 (.786) record. In the 1908/09 season, George Varnell became the first official coach for Gonzaga, earning a 10–2 (.833) record during his only season with Gonzaga.
During that season, they had no coach, but managed to achieve a record of 9–2 (.818). Gonzaga introduced a basketball program during the 1907/08 basketball season.
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