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WCC Men’s Basketball: Gonzaga Knocks Off Santa Clara 94-86 to Take over First Place
- Saturday night at the Leavey Center, the Gonzaga Bulldogs held off the Santa Clara Broncos 94-86, snapping Santa Clara's nine-game win streak and taking a half-game lead in the West Coast Conference.
- With Saturday's game, the top-two WCC teams faced a high-stakes matchup with four regular-season games remaining and implications for the tiebreaker and Selection Sunday.
- Key performances included Ike's 21 points, 15 rebounds, and four assists, plus Miller's 21, Grant-Foster's 20, and Gonzaga's 66-42 points in the paint.
- The road victory improved Gonzaga's tournament résumé by bumping its Quad 1 record to 6-1, and the team now resumes WCC play Wednesday at San Francisco at the Chase Center.
- Beyond the box score, the result matters because Mark Few, a Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame finalist, leads Gonzaga in its final WCC season before joining Pac-12 amid a sold-out Leavey Center and Graham Ike's seven-game 20-point streak.
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WCC men’s basketball: Gonzaga knocks off Santa Clara 94-86 to take over first place
SANTA CLARA — Fans filled Leavey Center to capacity for Santa Clara’s biggest game in years on Saturday night, but Gonzaga spoiled the party. The 12th-ranked Zags held off the Broncos 94-86 to snap Santa Clara’s nine-game win streak and retake the top spot in the West Coast Conference. Santa Clara, off to its best start in a season since 1969-70, led by as many as eight points in the first half. But Gonzaga, in its final season in the WCC before…
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