About a month into the 2024-25 season, the Gonzaga men's basketball team has put itself on track to earn a top seed for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. That certainly

That’s the takeaway based on the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which debuted Monday with Gonzaga listed at No. 3. The Zags were 6-1 a year ago with wins over UCLA and USC when they debuted at No. 31 in the NET rankings.

It was anyone's guess where the Gonzaga Bulldogs would fall in the weekly polls and rankings upon their return home from a 2-1 showing in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas. That's because the Zags (7-1) — who rebounded from their loss to West Virginia in the opener to finish fifth in the eight-team event after beating Davidson — were far from the only ranked team to have a slip up once (or twice,

Arizona, coached by longtime GU assistant Tommy Lloyd, predictably fell out of the rankings after going 1-2 at the Battle 4 Atlantis and losing four of its last five games. The Wildcats were ranked No. 24 coming into the week.

Rutgers has some work to do to build its NCAA Tournament résumé entering December. The Scarlet Knights (5-3) landed at 86th in the first NET rankings of the 2024-25 season, which were released on Monday morning.