The WCC will look much different this season with Washington State and Oregon State
Representative of college athletics as a whole, the West Coast Conference does not look the same as it did when the final buzzer sounded on the 2023-24 college basketball season.
Coast Conference while Washington and Oregon prepare to take on Rutgers and Penn State in the Big Ten. Student-athletes can transfer an unlimited amount of times without penalty, while schools will soon have a hand in paying their NIL directly after a slew of lawsuits hit the NCAA over the spring and summer.
The more that changes, however, the more that stays the same. At least in regard to the conference’s pecking order, which features theat the top once again following an eventful offseason that saw them keep most of their core and add some key transfers to the mix.Few teams in the country boast as much experience, continuity and interior scoring like Gonzaga does heading into the new season.
However the newcomers fit into the rotation, the Zags are more well-balanced across the board and, at least on paper, look better defensively than they did a year ago. Offensively, they’re set up to be much more efficient from outside the arc, especially if Steele Venters is the same sharpshooter as he comes off an ACL injury that he suffered last November.Key additions: Paulius Murauskas , Ashton Hardaway , Mikey Lewis Key games: vs. Nebraska , at Utah , vs.
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