The Gonzaga males’s basketball program will honor its first NCAA Match workforce by sporting throwback uniforms throughout tonight’s sport in opposition to San Diego, which ideas off at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
The 1994-95 Bulldogs, coached by Dan Fitzgerald, went 18-8 throughout the common season earlier than capturing the West Coast Convention Match title with consecutive victories over San Diego, Saint Mary’s and Portland.
Gonzaga was one among 5 convention champions making their first NCAA Match look, becoming a member of Colgate, FIU, Mount St. Mary’s and Nicholls State, however in the end fell to third-seeded Maryland within the first spherical.
Curiously, the uniforms don’t truly match what the Bulldogs wore that season, however relatively replicate the design they sported throughout the 1998-99 season, which ended with a loss within the Elite Eight to eventual nationwide champion UConn.
That features royal blue jerseys with a navy blue wordmark and numbers with white trim and white and pink piping on the collar, arm holes and backside of the royal blue shorts. There’s additionally a big Bulldog brand within a white circle on the proper aspect of the shorts.
This can mark the seventh totally different uniform worn by Gonzaga this season, together with their dwelling white, navy street, 1998-99 white fauxback, black alternate, grey alternate and turquoise N7 uniforms, which celebrated Native American Heritage Month.
