Gonzaga basketball: 2019-2020 season review and 2020-2021 early preview

Jalen Suggs heads up a top-10 recruiting class for Gonzaga

Hailing all the way from the prestigious Minnehaha Academy in Minnesota, Jalen Suggs is the biggest and most-coveted high school player Mark Few has ever recruited to Gonzaga.

Sporting a “Zag Up” t-shirt on an ESPN broadcast on Jan. 3, Suggs said he would be “furthering (his) basketball and academic career” at Gonzaga under Few. Rated a 99.7 by 247Sports, Suggs will pump up the ceiling considerably for the Bulldogs. Not since Nigel Williams-Goss a half-decade ago has the school had a true lead dog at point guard to run the offense. And Suggs is by far a more talented player at this age than Williams-Goss.

Joining Suggs in Spokane will be Dominick Harris and Julian Strawther, two four-star wings who will fill out the backcourt rotation with perhaps the most talent ever assembled at Gonzaga.

While there is a question of whether Joel Ayayi will jump to the NBA after a strong season, the depth chart figures to look like this for the Zags next year:

G – Suggs, Ayayi, Harris, Martynas Arlauskas

F – Kispert, Anton Watson, Strawther

C – Petrusev, Drew Timme

Despite the WCC improving and other schools bringing in better classes, few programs will use momentum and continuity from 2019-20 along with a dominating recruiting class to the 2020-21 season like Gonzaga will.

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