College basketball powerhouse Gonzaga set to join rebuilt Pac-12-ZoomTech News

Basketball powerhouse Gonzaga will develop into the newest member of the rebuilt Pac-12 Convention, the varsity introduced Tuesday.

Gonzaga will transfer from the West Coast Convention the place it has dominated for a lot of the final quarter century right into a convention that’s being rebuilt round soccer, however ought to be fairly stout on the basketball court docket. Gonzaga will develop into the eighth member together with holdovers Washington State and Oregon State, and fellow newcomers Boise State, San Diego State, Fresno State, Utah State and Colorado State.

Including Gonzaga nonetheless leaves the Pac-12 in want of one other football-playing member for CFP functions. Gonzaga doesn’t have a soccer program.

Final 12 months, Washington State, Boise State, San Diego State, Colorado State, Utah State and Gonzaga all reached the NCAA Match in males’s basketball. Two seasons in the past, San Diego State reached the nationwide championship recreation.

The Pac-12 started to restock for a 2026 relaunch final month by nabbing the 5 colleges from the Mountain West to affix Washington State and Oregon State, the one two Pac-12 colleges left after a dramatic spherical of realignment took impact this summer time.

The Bulldogs have thrived within the WCC, reaching the NCAA Match yearly it has been performed since 1998, with two Remaining 4 appearances and eight seasons of no less than 30 victories.

The varsity has prior to now talked to the Huge East about convention affiliation, and the Huge 12 has mentioned doubtlessly including Gonzaga to its sturdy males’s basketball lineup, because it did with UConn earlier this 12 months.

The Zags have additionally develop into a perennial event group in ladies’s basketball.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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