Javon Bennett

Like they did not play, they, they, If you're the number nine in the rotation, you didn't get into this game for the Zags, but I thought that the way the lineup worked was obviously very effective in order to get a win against a really good Purdue team here.

Yeah, I mean, even Javon Bennett, who came in and only played 13 minutes in this game, had some really crucial three throws towards the end of the contest, and they trusted him to take those and wanted him to have the ball.

I thought that was pretty impactful as well.

I mean, yeah, when you look at this, this eight is probably you're going to be rotation.

And I think we're going to quickly forget about this offseason, Andy, because this is a pretty deep team for only having eight strong.

Certainly would hope that we'll forget about it in the sense that it doesn't keep becoming an issue because two of these players could have their eligibility change at any time.

And Javon Bennett and Xavier Lee and obviously Chauncey Wiggins, I think will be part of the rotation when he gets eligible, if that happens for him.

But yeah, I think every year I've been doing this for five, six years covering this team now every year.

But I thought that the, the, the way the lineup worked was, was obviously very effective in order to get it to get a win against a really good Purdue team here.

Yeah, I mean, like even Javon Bennett, who came in and only played 13 minutes in this game, had some really crucial three throws towards the end of the contest.

And they trusted him to take those and wanted him to have the ball.

I thought that was pretty impactful as well.

And I think we're going to quickly forget about this offseason, Andy, because this is a pretty deep team for only having eight strong.

Certainly would hope that we'll forget about it in the sense that it doesn't keep becoming an issue because two of these players could have their eligibility change at any time.

And Javon Bennett and Xavier Lee and obviously Chauncey Wiggins, I think will be part of the rotation when he gets eligible, if that happens for him.

But yeah, I think every year I've been doing this for five, six years covering this team now every year.

Is it going to be Xavier Lee who steps up? I'm still a little worried about just the overall ceiling of this Gonzaga team as long as these guards don't quite step up.

Xavier Lee, Javon Bennett, Isaiah Harwell.

I'm still not in on Isaiah Harwell.

I don't know what it is.

Nailed three of four of his outside shots on route to 18 points.

So apparently Lee is eligible, as is Javon Bennett, who wasn't a factor.

He came in off the bench in this one, but they did not have Chauncey Wiggins.

He was deemed ineligible, so this is what the, looks like what the Bulldogs lineup is gonna look like.

Isan Almanza went three of three.

Javon Bennett went two of two in the final 20 seconds of this game.

Gonzaga, if they're going to play this style where they're taking a lot of contested shots and trying to draw fouls, which they were actively doing, If you shoot 76.5%, by all means, continue that strategy because it is going to work for this team this season.

Isano Mansa was excellent again, 11 points, 4 of 6 shooting.

Gonzaga preseason 14th at Ken Palm, 15th in the AP poll.

Xavier Lee, Javon Bennett are eligible as it stands right now for this.

This matchup, this game is going to be played in Vegas.

So Purdue with a pretty long travel.

However, Gonzaga to me is the more talented team.

However, I'm not super, super in on Gonzaga's backcourt.

Like I said, you do have Javon Bennett.

You do have Zavian Lee, who...

Didn't get to play a whole lot, but big-time recruit, big-time pedigree, and he was looking like he was going to be one of their starting guards.

And now Gonzaga goes out, and they bring in Xavier Lee from Florida, and they bring in Javon Bennett from Dayton, both of whom were very good players at previous stops.

Lee was quite the player at Princeton.

And both of them are kind of going to fit right in, in a high-mid major like Gonzaga.

Yeah, it looks like – I mean, from the research I've done, don't quote me here.

Xavier Lee and Javon Bennett should be good to go.

It's just Chauncey Wiggins that they're not too familiar with.

But it seems like in terms of a national championship ceiling, they're going to need all these guys to play ball this year.