Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Dan Fitzgerald and played their home games on campus at Kennedy Pavilion in Spokane, Washington.
[1][2][3] Gonzaga tied for fourth in the regular season standings but did not qualify for the four-team conference tournament.
They lost their final game to Boise State in overtime and were on the short end of the tiebreaker with Montana for the fourth seed.
[4][5][6] Senior center Paul Cathey was named to the all-conference team and four Bulldogs were honorable mention: guard Don Baldwin, guard Eddie White, forward Carl Pierce, and forward James Sheppard.
[10][11] This was the sixteenth and final year in the Big Sky Conference for charter member Gonzaga; in the summer they moved to the West Coast Athletic Conference (WCAC), trading places with Nevada.