All right Gonzaga and TSSF fans, the seemingly endless off-season is almost over. We can put the recruiting and transfer disappointments on hold and worry about the 2018 and 2019 recruiting classes later. It’s time to talk about the upcoming season!
We all know the bad news, the loss of the NCAA’s best center, an All-American point guard, an ice-cold assassin 3-point specialist and probably college basketball’s best 6th man. Player loses like this have happened before, after the 08-09 season GU lost Heytvelt, Pargo, Daye, Downs and Ira Brown. The next season, 09-10, Mark Few pieced together a returning starter (Matt Bouldin), a part-time starter (Steven Gray), a sub (Demitri Goodson), an injured redshirt (Robert Sacre) and a newcomer (Elias Harris) to 27 wins with a first round NCAA Tournament upset of #8 Florida State.