Sport: | basketball |
Year: | 1995–96 |
Team: | Gonzaga Bulldogs |
Conference: | West Coast Conference |
Short Conf: | WCC |
Record: | 21–9 |
Conf Record: | 10–4 |
Head Coach: | Dan Fitzgerald |
Hc Year: | 14th |
Asst Coach1: | Dan Monson |
Ac1 Year: | 8th |
Asst Coach2: | Mark Few |
Ac2 Year: | 7th |
Asst Coach3: | Bill Grier |
Ac3 Year: | 5th |
Arena: | Charlotte Y. Martin Centre |
Champion: | WCC regular season co-champion |
Tourney: | National Invitation Tournament |
Tourney Result: | First round |
The 1995–96 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University in the West Coast Conference (WCC) during the 1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by fourteenth-year head coach Dan Fitzgerald, the Bulldogs were overall in the regular season (10–4 in WCC, tied for first),and played their home games on campus at the Charlotte Y. Martin Centre in Spokane, Washington.
In November 1995, athletic director Fitzgerald announced this season would be his penultimate as head coach, with plans to promote longtime assistant Dan Monson in the spring of 1997.[1]
Regular season co-champion, Gonzaga advanced to the final of the WCC tournament at Santa Clara, but fell to fifth seed Portland.[2] Ten days later in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT),[3] the Bulldogs traveled to south to Pullman and lost to Washington State by nineteen points to finish at
|-!colspan=6 style=| WCC tournament
|-!colspan=6 style=| National Invitation tournament