{"id":153130,"date":"2026-01-28T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:49:08","slug":"whittaker-leads-gonzaga-against-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153130\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittaker leads Gonzaga against San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gonzaga Bulldogs (14-7, 6-2 WCC) at San Francisco Dons (13-7, 6-3 WCC)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Gonzaga visits San Francisco after Lauren Whittaker scored 37 points in Gonzaga\u2019s 92-87 loss to the Oregon State Beavers.<\/p>\n

The Dons have gone 8-4 in home games. San Francisco ranks fourth in the WCC in rebounding averaging 34.9 rebounds. Noelia Mourino paces the Dons with 7.0 boards.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs have gone 6-2 against WCC opponents. Gonzaga has a 1-1 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

San Francisco scores 69.3 points per game, 3.9 more points than the 65.4 Gonzaga gives up. Gonzaga scores 6.8 more points per game (73.4) than San Francisco allows (66.6).<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mara Neira averages 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Dons, scoring 7.6 points while shooting 28.1% from beyond the arc. Candy Edokpaigbe is averaging 17.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Whittaker is averaging 20.1 points and 10.3 rebounds for the Bulldogs. Allie Turner is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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\"Gonzaga<\/p>\n

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LAST 10 GAMES: Dons: 7-3, averaging 69.5 points, 34.0 rebounds, 15.1 assists, 8.9 steals and 2.2 blocks per game while shooting 41.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 68.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulldogs: 8-2, averaging 78.1 points, 37.3 rebounds, 19.3 assists, 7.1 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.7 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gonzaga Bulldogs (14-7, 6-2 WCC) at San Francisco Dons (13-7, 6-3 WCC) San Francisco; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[75405,7,37097,4213,1327,9222,60772,75404,75402,75406,75403,13665,101,25979,103,102,71825,104,106,105,127,567,558,3920,26102,8859],"class_list":["post-153130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-allie-turner","tag-california","tag-candy-edokpaigbe","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs-womens-basketball","tag-lauren-whittaker","tag-noelia-mourino","tag-oregon-state-beavers-womens-basketball","tag-oregon-state-beavers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-dons","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington","tag-west-coast-conference","tag-womens-college-basketball","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153130","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=153130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}