SPOKANE, Wash. \u2014 Jalen Warley scored a game-high 19 points and Gonzaga used a fast start to hold off San Francisco 68-66 on Saturday night, extending its winning streak to 14 games and staying perfect in West Coast Conference play.<\/p>\n
The No. 8 Bulldogs (21-1, 9-0 WCC) were again without star forwards Graham Ike and Braden Huff, but got balanced contributions off the bench as Davis Fogle and Tyon Grant-Foster each finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n
San Francisco (13-9, 5-4) kept pace with hot outside shooting, led by Legend Smiley\u2019s 18 points and Ryan Beasley\u2019s 14. The Dons hit 14 3-pointers and erased most of a double-digit deficit in the final minutes before coming up short at the buzzer.<\/p>\n
Gonzaga opened the game on a 12-0 run as San Francisco missed its first several shots. The Dons didn\u2019t score until Tyrone Riley IV knocked down a corner 3-pointer more than seven minutes into the game.<\/p>\n
Braeden Smith controlled the tempo early for Gonzaga, scoring nine points and setting up multiple baskets for Warley and Fogle. The Bulldogs carried a 36-25 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n
San Francisco responded in the second half with steady perimeter shooting, pulling within six several times, but Gonzaga answered with defense and transition baskets. A corner 3-pointer by Grant-Foster with two minutes left gave the Zags a 67-57 advantage.<\/p>\n
The Dons made one last push as Vukasin Masic hit back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minute to cut the lead to two. After a Gonzaga turnover from Mario Saint-Supery\u00a0with 30 seconds remaining, San Francisco had a chance to win it, but Junjie Wang\u2019s potential game-winning 3-point attempt missed, and time expired.<\/p>\n
Gonzaga finished 3 of 18 from beyond the arc but made enough plays at the free-throw line and on defense to secure the win.<\/p>\n
Gonzaga now has a week off before hosting Saint Mary\u2019s next Saturday at 7:30 p.m. PT on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOKANE, Wash. \u2014 Jalen Warley scored a game-high 19 points and Gonzaga used a fast start to hold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[11041,23535,101,103,102,104,106,105,23532,23534,127,23533,23536],"class_list":["post-148764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-local-sports","tag-local-sports-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-spokane","tag-spokane-sports","tag-sports","tag-sports-spokane","tag-wasington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}