The NCAA approved a proposal allowing teams to play up to two preseason exhibition games against any four-year school (including Division I teams, which Saint Mary\u2019s did by scheduling Arizona in Tucson and Ole Miss in Oxford), both starting this upcoming season.<\/p>\n
Gonzaga will first play NAIA Northwest University on October 19th at 2 p.m. PT in an exhibition. The Eagles are in nearby Kirkland, Washington, and are a Christian college.<\/p>\n
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Last season, Northwest finished third to last in the Cascade Collegiate Conference with a 4-18 league record, 5-23 overall. They compete against Warner Pacific, Eastern Oregon, Southern Oregon, and Lewis-Clark State, whom the Zags have played in recent years.<\/p>\n
Following that tune-up will be another exhibition against D-II Western Oregon on October 27th, and after that is when things are for real.<\/p>\n
Here is Gonzaga\u2019s full 2025-26 non-conference schedule:<\/p>\n
Kraziness in the Kennel (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 October 4th<\/p>\n
#Northwest (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 October 19th<\/p>\n
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#Western Oregon (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 October 27th<\/p>\n
Texas Southern (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 November 3rd<\/p>\n
Oklahoma (Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 November 8th<\/p>\n
Creighton (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 November 11th<\/p>\n
Arizona State (Desert Financial Arena in Tempe, Arizona) \u2013 November 14th<\/p>\n
Southern Utah (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 November 17th<\/p>\n
*Alabama (Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada) \u2013 November 24th<\/p>\n
*Maryland (Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada) \u2013 November 25th<\/p>\n
*Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada (consolation\/third place\/championship) \u2013 November 26th<\/p>\n
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Kentucky (Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee) \u2013 December 5th<\/p>\n
North Florida (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 December 7th<\/p>\n
UCLA (Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington) \u2013 December 13th<\/p>\n
Campbell (McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington) \u2013 December 17th<\/p>\n
Oregon (Moda Center in Portland, Oregon) \u2013 December 21st<\/p>\n
#Exhibition<\/p>\n
*Arena location for the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, will be at either the MGM Grand Garden Arena or the Michelob ULTRA Arena; Winner receives $1 million, 2nd place at $500,000, 3rd place receives $300,000, 4th place with $200,000<\/p>\n
The final West Coast Conference schedule for Gonzaga was also recently announced, but it still has some moving parts, with nine of the matchups having a span of dates listed in order to keep \u201cdate flexibility with national TV partners to provide more national exposure for the conference on additional days of the week.\u201d The television partners will once again be ESPN and CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n
The WCC Tournament returns to the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas for the 18th consecutive year and will be held from March 5th through the 10th.<\/p>\n
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Arden Cravalho\u00a0is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area\u2026 Follow him on X @a_cravalho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA approved a proposal allowing teams to play up to two preseason exhibition games against any four-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1017,402,112573,112578,112574,86597,112571,9809,112576,112579,56986,398,400,401,112572,34455,112577,61888,99,24,112575,2002,112580],"class_list":["post-193827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-arizona","tag-basketball","tag-cascade-collegiate-conference","tag-eastern-oregon","tag-emmanuel-innocenti","tag-gaels","tag-gonzaga-basketball","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-gonzaga-university","tag-lewis-clark-state","tag-mccarthey-athletic-center","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-northwest-university","tag-ole-miss","tag-southern-oregon","tag-spokane","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-warner-pacific","tag-washington","tag-western-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}