Gonzaga Vs St Mary's Ca — gonzaga vs st mary's ca: Conference realignment brings rivalry to bittersweet end

gonzaga vs st mary's ca headlines the last WCC regular season game ever for Gonzaga, which comes Saturday at Saint Mary’s. If Saint Mary’s wins that game, the two schools will share the West Coast Conference season title before the conference tournament and Gonzaga’s departure for the rebooted Pac-12.

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The matchup at Saint Mary’s will be the final WCC regular-season meeting for Gonzaga as the program prepares to leave the WCC and move to the rebooted Pac-12, taking its national profile with it. That sequence — final regular-season game, conference tournament, then Gonzaga’s exit — shapes what many in the league are calling a bittersweet farewell.

Farewell at The Kennel

There will be no more Mark Few in the WCC landscape the way opponents have long known him. No more McCarthey Athletic Center, which opened in 2004 and is also known as The Kennel. The Zags have played 175 WCC games in The Kennel and have lost 10 of those contests.

How conference rivals fared

Pepperdine’s last victory over the Zags came before Facebook, before Twitter, before Instagram — that win was in 2002. Since that year the Waves have lost 51 in a row to Gonzaga. San Diego has dropped 20 straight to Gonzaga; the Toreros are 4-54 against Few. Loyola Marymount has lost 35 of the last 37 meetings with Gonzaga.

Santa Clara, San Francisco and Pacific

Santa Clara is 23-7 this season and might grab its first NCAA tournament bid in 30 years; the Broncos played Gonzaga reasonably tough this season, losing by 12 and by eight points, but they have still lost 53 of the last 57 games in the series. San Francisco won national championships when Bill Russell was on campus, back in the 1950s; the Dons have lost 35 consecutive games to Gonzaga. Pacific has faced Few-coached Gonzaga teams only 23 times in WCC play, has lost all 23 meetings, and the most recent meeting was a 71-62 grinder.

Seattle and January meetings

Seattle just joined the WCC this season. The Redhawks share a state with Gonzaga but until this season they did not regularly share the court; when the teams met Jan. 2 in Spokane it was the first meeting since 1980, and the Zags won but had to go to overtime in that home game. The second meeting between the schools ended 71-50.

Portland upset and a coach's reaction

Portland handed Gonzaga the only WCC loss so far this season, an upset that might stand as the last such WCC defeat for the Zags. The Pilots forced No. 6 Gonzaga into 40 percent shooting and won 87-80, toppling the highest-ranked opponent in school history. Before that night Portland had lost 20 in a row to Gonzaga and were 2-47 against Few. Coach Shantay Legans said, "if you had told me at the beginning of the year that we’d be taking the ball out with under a minute to go, and we’re up 11 on Gonzaga, I’d be like, ‘What reality are we living in?’"

Afterward, Portland returned to The Kennel on Wednesday night, and the Zags won their final WCC home game 89-48.

Bracketology and rankings mentioned

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Saint Mary’s edge and unfinished text

Saint Mary’s has been the nut Gonzaga could not routinely crack. Randy Bennett’s teams have beaten Few 17 times, which accounts for 41. 6 percent of his conference defeats. The Gaels are 6-6 against Gonzaga over the past 12 meetings. That included clinch — unclear in the provided context.

Spring training note, 2/28/26

In separate spring training coverage dated 2/28/26: Brett Baty makes a start at first base and Tobias Myers takes the hill for the Mets at Clover Park. Freddy Peralta makes his first start of spring training. A writer noted that Citi Field is great, but that many Mets fans have memories from Shea. The Mets visit the Astros for a Grapefruit League game this afternoon; coverage included an open thread and an invitation to chat about your dream G, K, or R chat in the comments. The Mets also host the Astros for a Grapefruit League game this afternoon.

Closing: The final WCC regular-season meeting and conference realignment combine to create both an endpoint and a moment of reckoning for opponents who spent decades measuring themselves against Gonzaga. gonzaga vs st mary's ca will carry extra weight this Saturday as the league says goodbye and teams consider what comes next.