Mick Cronin won’t quit till he has a win over the Zags. Among the best West Coast rivalries between UCLA and Gonzaga will proceed into 2025-2026 with subsequent season’s matchup being performed in Los Angeles on the Intuit Heart (the brand new house of the Los Angeles Clippers) and the second matchup in Seattle on the Local weather Pledge Area. Consider all of the current recollections these two historic applications have had over time:
Watson’s career-high 32 factors within the 2023 Maui Invitational
Strawther’s dagger in his hometown through the 2023 Candy Sixteen
Nembhard’s and Holmgren’s beatdown within the 2021 Empire Basic in Las Vegas
Suggs’ buzzer beater to go to the 2021 nationwide championship in Indianapolis
Gonzaga has gained the final 4 head-to-head matchups over UCLA and personal the all-time sequence with a 7-2 report.
The Zags proceed to not be afraid of going up towards anybody in school basketball. The upcoming non-conference schedule is wanting robust as soon as once more:
Battle 4 Atlantis (Arizona, Indiana, Louisville, Creighton, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Davidson)
vs UConn (at Madison Sq. Backyard)
at San Diego State
vs Kentucky (at Local weather Pledge Area)
vs Washington
vs UCLA (at Intuit Dome)
Cronin actually stacked his program up with expertise this offseason after a disappointing 2023-2024 marketing campaign with an total report of 16-17. One of many largest commits for the Bruins simply occurred lately in Trent Perry. The McDonald’s All-American within the Class of 2024 de-committed from USC as soon as Andy Enfield left for SMU. He was additionally contemplating Gonzaga however finally determined to remain in LA the place he’s from (Harvard-Westlake in Studio Metropolis).
Take so much the depth that UCLA’s 2024-2025 squad has beneath.
The #UCLA basketball roster for the 2024-2025 season is ready: pic.twitter.com/IJ5P95zDhf
— Bruin Report On-line (@BruinReport) Could 9, 2024
I’m serious about seeing how the minutes are going to be unfold and the way the rotation will work out, particularly within the backcourt. The Bruins are loaded on the level guard place with Dylan Andrews, Skyy Clark, and Trent Perry.
Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga College graduate from the Bay Space… Observe him on Twitter @a_cravalho
