2024–25 Gonzaga Bulldogs women's basketball team explained

Mode:Women's Basketball
Year:2024–25
Prev Year:2023–24
Next Year:2025–26
Team:Gonzaga Bulldogs
Conference:West Coast Conference
Short Conf:WCC
Record:4–2
Conf Record:0–0
Hc Year:11th
Asst Coach1:Jordan Green
Asst Coach3:Craig Fortier

The 2024–25 Gonzaga Bulldogs women's basketball team represents Gonzaga University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bulldogs (also informally referred to as the "Zags"), members of the West Coast Conference, are led by eleventh-year head coach Lisa Fortier and play home games at the McCarthey Athletic Center on the university campus in Spokane, Washington.

Previous season

See main article: 2023–24 Gonzaga Bulldogs women's basketball team. The Bulldogs finished the season at 32–4 and 16–0 in WCC play to win the WCC regular season championship. They advanced to the WCC women's tournament championship game where they lost to Portland. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Women's Tournament as a 4th seed in Portland region 4 where they defeated UC Irvine and Utah first and second rounds to advance to the sweet sixteen for the first time since 2015, where they lost to Texas.

Offseason

Departures

Due to COVID-19 disruptions throughout NCAA sports in 2020–21, the NCAA announced that the 2020–21 season would not count against the athletic eligibility of any individual involved in an NCAA winter sport, including women's basketball. This meant that all seniors in 2023–24 had the option to return for 2024–25.

Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason left
Destiny Burton 1 F 6'0" Senior Graduated
Payton Muma 3 G 5'8" Sophomore Transferred to Wyoming[1]
Calli Stokes 10 F 5'11" Sophomore Transferred
Kayleigh Truong 11 G 5'9" GS Senior Graduated
Eliza Hollingsworth 12 F 6'2" Senior Graduated
Naya Ojukwu 13 F 6'0" Freshman Transferred to Morgan State
14 G 5'8" GS Senior Graduated/2023 WNBA draft; selected 21st overall by Washington Mystics
22 G 6'0" GS Senior Graduated/2023 WNBA draft; selected 13th overall by Chicago Sky

Incoming transfers

Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previous
school
Vera Gunaydin 2 G 5'9" Junior South Georgia Tech
Inês Bettencourt 8 G 5'9" Junior UConn[2]
Tayla Dalton 10 G 5'9" GS Senior Saint Mary's[3]
McKynnlie Dalan 22 F 6'1" Sophomore Minnesota[4]

Recruiting

There was no recruiting class of 2024.

Schedule and results

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Rankings

See also: 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Cowgirls add Gonzaga transfer Payton Muma. Wyoming Tribune Eagle. May 1, 2024. September 28, 2024.
  2. News: Gonzaga women land UConn guard Ines Bettencourt in portal, first transfer of offseason. The Spokesman-Review. Greg. Lee. April 29, 2024. September 28, 2024.
  3. News: Gonzaga women add former Saint Mary’s guard Tayla Dalton in transfer portal. The Spokesman-Review. Greg. Lee. May 4, 2024. September 28, 2024.
  4. News: Gonzaga women pick up Minnesota transfer forward McKynnlie Dalan. The Spokesman-Review. Greg. Lee. May 16, 2024. September 28, 2024.
  5. Web site: 2024–25 Women's Basketball Schedule - Gonzaga University Official Athletic Site - Women's Basketball . Gozags.com .