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PREVIOUS STATE FARM BATTLE IN SEATTLE RESULTS 2003 – No. 17 Gonzaga 87 – 80 No. 3 Missouri (OT)
State Farm Battle in Seattle Game Preview Over the past 10 years, the State Farm Battle in Seattle has seen its share of great basketball including buzzer beaters, overtime thrillers and exciting Top 10 matchups. This year’s 10th anniversary game may feature the best Gonzaga team yet. With a 9-0 start, the Bulldogs have set a school record for most wins to begin the season, topping the 1994-95 squad which started 8-0. Gonzaga’s balanced attack and great depth has fueled this hot start. Ten players play over 10 minutes per game with six players averaging more than eight points per game. In just 10 games, six different players have led the team in scoring. Head coach Mark Few’s plethora of scorers is led by senior forward Elias Harris, a German native who averages 15.9 points per game as well as a team high 8.4 rebounds per game. The Bulldogs enter Seattle with a 9-1 record, scoring wins over West Virginia, Oklahoma, Clemson, Davidson and Washington State. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the team won the Old Spice Classic, the first program to win the tournament multiple times. The Zags previously won the event in 2008. The 10th anniversary of the State Farm Battle in Seattle brings a
familiar face back to Key Arena. New Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber, coached Illinois to a 73-61 victory in Seattle in 2010. Weber is off to a great start in his first year at K-State. Led by Rodney McGruder, a candidate for the Naismith Award and Wooden Trophy, the Wildcats bring a 7-1 record to Seattle. McGruder averages 12.9 points per game leading a team whose depth may be one of the few this season that can match Gonzaga’s. Eleven Wildcat players receive more than 11 minutes per contest. The event is the third meeting between both teams, with Kansas State winning the previous two. The teams last faced each other Nov 22, 2010, in the semifinal of the CBE Classic, with the Wildcats defeating the Zags 81-64. The first match-up was March 22, 1994, in Manhattan, Kan., where Kansas State knocked off Gonzaga 66-64 in the second round of the Postseason NIT.
2004 – Gonzaga 68 – 57 Massachusetts 2005 – No. 11 Gonzaga 64 – 62 Oklahoma State 2006 – No. 18 Nevada 82 – 74 Gonzaga 2007 – No. 11 Tennessee 82 – 72 Gonzaga 2008 – No. 2 Connecticut 88 – 83 No. 7 Gonzaga (OT) 2009 – No. 21 Gonzaga 103 – 91 Davidson 2010 – No. 20 Illinois 73 – 61 Gonzaga nzaga 71 – 60 Arizona 2011 – Gonzaga
The State Farm Battle in Seattle games have been among the largest college basketball games in the state of Washington. The 2008 game even set Washington’s attendance record for a regular season college basketball game with a sold-out crowd of 16,763 eager to watch the Bulldogs take on the Connecticut Huskies. Gonzaga has compiled a 5-4 record in State Farm Battle in Seattle games.
State Farm Battle in Seattle Game Program published by S-R Media/The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA. Articles and statistics were provided by Idol Sports & Entertainment Inc., Gilbert, AZ.
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GONZAGA Gonzaga schedule & results November 9 - Southern Utah – 103-65 (W) November 12 – West Virginia – 84-50 (W) November 18 – South Dakota – 96-58 (W) November 22 – Clemson – 57-49 (W) November 23 – Oklahoma – 72-47 (W) November 25 - Davidson – 81-67 (W) November 29 - Lewis-Clark State College - 104-57 (W) December 1 – Pacific – 85-67 (W) December 5 – at Washington State – 71-69 (W) December 8 – Illinois – 74-85 (L) December 15 – K-State (State Farm Battle in Seattle) December 19 – Campbell December 28 – Baylor December 31 – at Oklahoma State January 3 – at Pepperdine January 5 – at Santa Clara January 10 – St. Mary’s January 17 – at Portland January 19 – at Butler Jan January 24 – BYU Jan January 26 – San Francisco Jan January 31 – at LMU Fe February 2 – at San Diego Fe February 7 – Pepperdine Fe February 9 – LMU Fe February 14 – at St. Mary’s Fe February 16 – at San Francisco Fe February 20 – Santa Clara Fe February 23 – San Diego Fe February 28 – at BYU Ma March 2 – Portland
Gonzaga Stats Points per game • Elias Harris – 16.6 • Kelly Olynyk – 14.1 • Kevin Pangos – 10.5
Assists per game • Kevin Pangos – 3.7 • David Stockton – 3.5 • Gary Bell Jr. – 2.2
Rebounds per game • Elias Harris – 8.0 • Kelly Olynyk – 7.1 • Sam Dower – 4.5
STATS
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K-STATE
K-State schedule & results November 9 – North Dakota – 85-52 (W) November 12 – Lamar – 79-55 (W) November 13 – Alabama-Huntsville – 87-26 (W) November 18 – North Florida – 74-55 (W) November 21 – Delaware – 66-63 (W) November 23 – Michigan – 57-71 (L) December 2 – USC Upstate – 72-53 (W) December 8 – at George Washington – 65-62 (W) December 15 - Gonzaga (State Farm Battle in Seattle) December 22 – Florida December 29 – UMKC December 31 – South Dakota January 5 – Oklahoma State January 12 – at West Virginia January 16 – at TCU January 19 – Oklahoma January 22 – Kansas January 26 – at Iowa State January 30 – Texas February 2 – at Oklahoma February 5 at Texas Tech February 9 – Iowa State February 11 – at Kansas February 16 – Baylor February 18 – West Virginia February 23 – at Texas February 25 – Texas Tech March 2 – at Baylor March 5 – TCU March 9 – at Oklahoma State
K-State Stats Points per game • Rodney McGruder – 12.9 • Angel Rodriguez – 10.5 • Will Spradling – 8.9
Assists per game • Angel Rodriguez – 4.5 • Will Spradling – 3.0 • Martavious Irving – 2.5
Rebounds per game • Thomas Gipson – 6.9 • DJ Johnson – 5.6 • Rodney McGruder – 5.6
*Records and statistics updated through 12/9/2012
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2013
K-STATE
NUMBER
NAME
HT/WT
Year/Class-EXP
Home Town/School
20
Adrian Diaz
6-10/230
Forward
Miami, Fla. (Hialeah-Miami Lakes)
42
Thomas Gipson
6-7/270
Forward
Cedar Hill, Texas (Cedar Hill)
21
Jordan Henriquez
6-11/250
Forward
Port Chester, N.Y. (The Winchendon (Mass.) School)
3
Martavious Irving
6-1/200
Guard
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Boyd Anderson)
50
D.J. Johnson
6-8/250
Forward
St. Louis, Mo. (Parkway North)
12
Omari Lawrence
6-3/210
Guard
Bronx, N.Y. (St. John's)
22
Rodney McGruder
6-4/205
Guard
Washington, D.C. (Arlington (Fla.) Country Day)
40
Shawn Meyer
6-3/210
Guard
Kansas City, Mo. (Blue Springs South)
44
Michael Orris
6-2/190
Guard
Crete, Ill. (Crete-Monee)
13
Angel Rodriguez
5-11/180
Guard
San Juan, Puerto Rico (Krop)
Eric Rodriguez - Graduate Student Manager
33
Brian Rohleder
6-3/210
Guard
Wichita, Kan. (Bishop Carroll)
Drew Speraw - Video Coordinator
24
Ryan Schultz
6-5/200
Forward
Wichita, Kan. (Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College)
1
Shane Southwell
6-6/210
Guard
Harlem, N.Y. (Rice)
55
Will Spradling
6-2/180
Guard
Overland Park, Kan. (Shawnee Mission South)
11
Nino Williams
6-5/220
Forward
St. Louis, Mo. (Leavenworth [Kan.])
Coaches Bruce Weber - Head Coach Chris Lowery - Associate Head Coach Alvin Brooks III - Assistant Coach Chester Frazier - Assistant Coach Bailey Borck - Administrative Assistant Brad Korn - Director of Men’s Basketball Operations Wayne McClain - Director of Student-Athlete Development Jimmy Price - Strength and Conditioning Coach
Brandon Yoder - Athletic Trainer Dustin Yoder - Graduate Student Manager
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2013 No
Name
Pos
Ht
Wt
Cl
Exp
Hometown/School
3
Kyle Dranginis#
G
6-4
200
FR
RS
Nampa, ID/Skyview
4
Kevin Pangos
G
6-2
182
SO
1V
Newmarket, Ontario/Denison Secondary School
5
Gary Bell, Jr.
G
6-1
205
SO
1V
Kent, WA/Kentridge
10
Guy Landry Edi
F
6-6
218
SR
1V
Paris, France/Sylmar (Van Nuys, CA)/Midland, TX, College
11
David Stockton#
G
5-11
165
JR
2V
Spokane, WA/Gonzaga Prep
13
Kelly Olynyk#
F/G
7-0
250
JR
2V
Kamloops, British Columbia/South Kamloops
15
Rem Bakamus
G
6-0
150
FR
HS
Longview, WA/Mark Morris
20
Elias Harris
F
6-8
239
SR
3V
Speyer, Germany/Friedrich-Magnus-Schwerd-Gymnasium
22
Gerard Coleman$
G
6-4
173
JR
TR
Boston, MA/Tilton School/Providence College
24
Przemek Karnowski
C
7-1
305
FR
HS
Torun, Poland/Nicolaus Copernicus
30
Michael Hart#
G
6-6
207
SR
3V
Portland, OR/Jesuit
35
Sam Dower#
C/F
6-9
255
JR
2V
Brooklyn Park, MN/Osseo
43
Drew Barham
G/F
6-6
195
GR
TR
Memphis, TN/Christian Brothers/University of Memphis
#Indicates redshirt year used. $ Indicates redshirting 2013 season. HEAD COACH:
Mark Few (14th year, University of Oregon, 1987 – 24th year at Gonzaga)
ASSISTANTS:
Tommy Lloyd (12th year, Whitman College, 1998) Ray Giacoletti (6th year, North Dakota State University, 1985) Donny Daniels (3rd year, Cal State Fullerton, 1977)
DIRECTOR/BASKETBALL OPERATIONS: Jerry Krause (12th year, Wayne State University, 1959 – 19th year at Gonzaga) BASKETBALL TRAINER: Jennifer Nyland (15th year, Washington State University, 1998)
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How The Battle in Seattle Got Started The annual neutral-site game in Seattle has become part of Gonzaga’s schedule each year. Fans love trekking west each December to see the Bulldogs take on some of the nation’s best basketball programs including Arizona, Illinois, Tennessee, and even 2008’s memorable overtime loss to University of Connecticut. Prior to the first Battle in Seattle, Gonzaga had already played some of these teams and other top non-conference foes, including Arizona, Florida, Cincinnati, UCLA, California, and Kansas. Unfortunately after the incredible run that started with the 1999 Final 8 appearance, followed up by consecutive Sweet 16 appearances, the only elite non-conference games Gonzaga was able to schedule were on the road. After deep runs in the NCAA tournament, GU was becoming that small school that no one wanted to play. Bulldog Coach Mark Few came up with the idea of holding games in Seattle to attract top non-conference opponents to the Northwest and bring great games closer to home while enhancing Gonzaga’s national exposure. Few assigned Gonzaga’s Director of Basketball and Division I scheduling guru Jerry Krause to work with Northwest Sports & Entertainment (now Idol Sports) to explore how to make this happen. But how was Gonzaga going to attract any high-profile opponents to Seattle? Krause and John Hines, director of Idol Sports, started by creating a list of 24 college programs in the nation that could possibly consider taking part in a Battle in Seattle. Then Hines focused on securing KeyArena, which at the time had the Seattle Supersonics as the prime tenant. In order for any NCAA game to take place, especially on a Saturday in December, the Sonics would have to first not schedule a home game. For the first three years of the Battle, the Sonics were actually made partners. Hines and Krause then began lining up national television coverage. At that time, only ESPN and CBS would show games like this, and they would be competing for viewers against other established December match-ups like Duke/Kentucky and North Carolina/Indiana.
Finally, a push began to find the right team to take on Gonzaga. Hines began by targeting Quinn Snyder, who had grown up on Mercer Island, right outside of Seattle, was a formidable player and assistant coach at Duke and then was building an impressive coaching career at Missouri. His Missouri Tigers had made it to four consecutive NCAA berths including the Elite Eight in 2002. Credit for bringing Quinn’s third-ranked Tigers to Seattle came from the current Big East Commissioner Michael Aresco, who had become friends with Hines during his tenure as Executive Vice President in charge of Programming for CBS Sports. Hines told Aresco that Gonzaga had never had a national network TV game, but Aresco wanted to wait until a nationally-ranked team accepted an invitation to play in Seattle. Snyder also was considering turning the offer to play down without guaranteed TV coverage. Finally, without Gonzaga’s knowledge, Hines told Aresco that Missouri had signed the contract to play in the first Battle in Seattle, which led Aresco to tell Missouri that CBS had signed a contract to televise the game. On Dec. 13, 2003, the first ever Battle in Seattle took place in front of 15,000 rabid Gonzaga fans and a CBS national television audience that had its highest December rating for a college game that year. The amazing overtime game featured Blake Stepp, Ronny Turiaf, and a short-haired Adam Morrison combining their talents to beat the country’s thirdranked team. Missouri did beat the Bulldogs the next year. Bulldog games have also been televised more than a dozen times since that year. Now that the Battle in Seattle has become a strong Bulldog tradition, Gonzaga fans can easily enjoy non-conference games in Spokane like West Virginia, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Memphis, Butler, Baylor, Oklahoma State, and Michigan State. And the whole thing started with a little deception that convinced teams it was just fine to play Gonzaga on the road.
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Top 10 State Farm Battle in Seattle Moments 10. The new NBA at KeyArena – Since the Sonics left town in 2008, Seattle has been starving for NBA basketball. The State Farm Battle in Seattle has helped ďŹ ll that void, featuring 21 players who have gone on to play in the NBA. Led by #2 overall pick, Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet, seven players who participated in the annual neutral site game at KeyArena have been drafted in the ďŹ rst round of the NBA draft.
9. Elias Harris’ monster game against Arizona – In the 2011 State Farm Battle in Seattle, Gonzaga jumped out to a 14-0 lead over Arizona. The Bulldog’s defense was outstanding but the key to the fast start was junior Elias Harris who scored 12 of Gonzaga’s ďŹ rst 19 points. Harris made six of his ďŹ rst seven shots and his 3-pointer in the closing seconds gave him 17 for the ďŹ rst half, nearly outscoring the Wildcats by himself as Gonzaga led 39-21. The German native ďŹ nished 11-15 from the ďŹ eld with 25 points and 8 rebounds as the Zags defeated the Wildcats 71-60.
8. Coaching legacy – Some of the top coaches in college basketball have made their way through the locker rooms at KeyArena. Led by Hall of Famers Jim Calhoun and Eddie Sutton, the men who have coached in the State Farm Battle in Seattle have amassed over 3,700 wins, 100 NCAA Tournament appearances, 3 National Championships, 8 Final Fours and dozens of coaching honors including multiple National Coach of the Year awards.
7. 103 points against Davidson – The Bulldogs and Davidson Wildcats lit up the scoreboard on December 12, 2009 in the 7th edition of the State Farm Battle in Seattle. Gonzaga made 41 out of a school record 54 free throw attempts in route to a 10193 victory. Three Zags scored over 20 points including, Robert Sacre and
Demetri Goodson who set then career bests of 23 and 22 points, respectively. And the Zags did all this despite the absence of injured leading scorer Matt Bouldin who did not play in the game due to a head injury.
6. What an Honor – As part of the ďŹ rst six years of the State Farm Battle in Seattle, a person who made lasting contributions to the game of basketball in the Northwest was honored with a reception in their name. The six honorees make up a who’s who of college basketball names throughout the West Coast. Past honorees include Marv Harshman, Don Munson, Jud Heathcote, Jerry Krause, George Raveling and Frank Burgess.
5. First Things First – Gonzaga basketball has become a ďŹ xture playing in front of a nationally televised audience. But that wasn’t always the case. December 13, 2003 marked not only the inaugural State Farm Battle in Seattle but also the ďŹ rst time Mark Few and company played a regular-season game on the national network telecast for CBS. The entire nation watched as the Bulldogs defeated Missouri, 87-80 in overtime (more on that game below). Since that ďŹ rst game at KeyArena, the Zags have been featured on CBS games multiple times per season, including last year’s State Farm Battle in Seattle against Arizona.
4. Top 10 Matchup – A massive Seattle snow storm couldn’t keep a sellout crowd from watching #7 Gonzaga take on the second ranked Connecticut Huskies at KeyArena on December 20, 2008. The Zags were ahead nearly the entire game, including an 11 point lead with 12 minutes remaining, until Connecticut’s senior point guard A.J. Price hit an improbable 3-pointer that sent the game into overtime. Jerome Dyson scored six of his 21 points in the extra period to rally the Huskies to a wild, 88-83 victory.
3. Taking down #3 – The inaugural State Farm Battle in Seattle brought the third ranked Missouri Tigers to the Emerald City to take on the #17 Bulldogs. Missouri led by three at halftime, but Ronny Turiaf scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half and Blake Stepp added 14 points and 10 assists as the Zags earned a dramatic 87-80 overtime victory over the Tigers. Freshman Adam Morrison scored 17 points, just one of the many double digit scoring nights for the future All-American.
2. Record breaking crowd – History was made on December 30, 2006 in the 4th ever State Farm Battle in Seattle when 15,110 fans watched Gonzaga take on Nevada at KeyArena. The game broke the attendance record for a college basketball game in the state of Washington, topping the previous record of 14,252 at the Seattle Center Coliseum for a Feb. 12, 1967 game between Seattle University and Texas Western the year after the Miners won the NCAA title. The record has since been broken three times, all by State Farm Battle in Seattle games (2007, 2008 & 2011). The current high was set in 2008 when 16,763 people watched the Zags and the UConn Huskies.
1. The bank was open – With Oklahoma State’s Marcus Dove and David Monds draped all over him and his team down by one, Adam Morrison hoisted a shot from behind the 3-point line as the clock ticked down to less than 5 seconds. The crowd went silent as Morrison, the nation’s leading scorer, released the shot but then erupted as the ball banked high off the backboard with 2.5 seconds left to give Gonzaga a crazy 64-62 comeback win over Eddie Sutton and the stunned Cowboys. As the buzzer sounded, teammates mobbed Morrison who ďŹ nished with 25 points. Ever the showmen, Morrison said he called “bankâ€?on the game winning shot. “I had the angle,â€?he said.
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