After a sluggish start on the court, the rest of the night looked much more familiar for the Gonzaga men, who sailed past Texas Southern for a dominant 98-43 season-opening victory.

Jim Root, college basketball writer for The Athletic, complied a list of the best nonconference games of the season, and two of UCLA's games made the cut, one if which is being played next week. Let's take a look at the games Root selected and what he had to say about them.

Tyon Grant-Foster may or may not be eligible to play college basketball at Gonzaga this season. The 25-year-old, seventh-year senior remains in NCAA

LAS VEGAS — Heading into their final season in the West Coast Conference, the Gonzaga men's basketball team was picked to win the conference. Washington State was picked to finish sixth. Gonzaga forwards Graham Ike and Braden Huff were both named to the preseason All-WCC team.

Year 11 of the Bobby Hurley era is on the dawn of finding a starting point, as the Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball program prepares for the 2

SPOKANE, Wash. - The Gonzaga Bulldogs men's and women's basketball teams learned their final WCC schedules before their Pac-12 move next season. The WCC enters a new scheduling system this season, playing conference games on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays ...

Coach Mark Few wants to return No. 21 Gonzaga to the list of national title contenders, and he’s assembled a loaded team to get there.

When Gonzaga departs the West Coast Conference for the Pac-12 next year, it will leave big shoes to fill. The Bulldogs' men's basketball program, after all, has won 26 regular-season and 22 tournament titles in the conference it helped put on the map.