Tyon Grant-Foster of Gonzaga is this week's featured guests on the Field of 68's West Coast Conference Insider Men's Basketball podcast. The Bulldogs (25-2, 13-1) are coming off a 94-86 road win over Santa Clara to own sole possession of first place of the West Coast Conference standings. Gonzaga has now won 25 games or more in 19 consecutive seasons, extending its NCAA Division I record. Gonzaga will return to the Bay Area on Wednesday in a showdown at the Chase Center against San Francisco at 8:00 p.m. on ESPN2.
The West Coast Conference currently boasts three programs in the top 42 in the NET rankings - No. 7 Gonzaga, No. 26 Saint Mary’s and No. 42 Santa Clara. Gonzaga is ranked No. 11 in the AP poll and No. 8 in Coaches poll, while Saint Mary's is receiving votes in both polls.
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Timestamps are listed below for efficient viewing:
1:24 - Graham Ike's dominance this season
"Graham Ike is blue-collar, workman-like. He is a land warrior. He is a guy that wins because he is exceptional at creating angles. He's exceptional at beating a double team when he draws two, and he's exceptional at kind of getting space and carving out space and being impossible to move. And that's not something that's going to put you on highlight reels." - Rob Dauster
4:15 - Santa Clara's NCAA Tournament hopes
9:30 - Tyon Grant-Foster joins the show
12:25 - On stepping up against Santa Clara
"I had conversations with my teammates... they were like 'you know this is the time for you, step it up, this is the time when you play your best basketball.' Just having conversations with them and them trusting me, just gave me the confidence to do what I know I can do, just take care of the ball, defend and put the ball in the basket."
15:08 - On Graham Ike
"He's a great guy. He's a great teammate. I tell this story all the time. Before I even got to (Gonzaga), he hit me up as soon as I committed. Like, the first person to hit me like, 'Yo I'm gonna be in Phoenix, like let's go, let's link up.' Ever since then, he's just been like one of my closest friends. So just being around him, the energy he brings, the passion that he brings, it's insane."
19:10 - On the best part of playing at Gonzaga to end his career
"But playing with this group of guys, like just the way that they literally accepted me on such short notice, like I was not here at all during the summer, I barely was here before the season started, you know, and the way that they accepted me and tried their best to push me into, the play and the plays and everything. It's, it's been amazing that's been the thing, like I said, like these guys are amazing. They're all about winning and that's probably the best thing."
22:00 - Grant-Foster's thoughts on Santa Clara
"Yeah, I think they are a [NCAA] tournament team. They're good, they play hard, they got (Allen) Graves... he's really good. I'm not going to lie, he's really good. And then (Christian) Hammond is really good... so I feel like the are a tournament team."
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