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The 2026-27 season carries more uncertainty than any Gonzaga campaign in recent memory. New conference, new roster, new identity. Eleven players gone. The three players Few is counting on to hold it together are a senior coming off a knee injury, a sophomore wing who spent the first half of last season in garbage time, and a Spanish point guard who had never played a college game before November. That point guard is Mario Saint-Supery, and what he does this year will go a long way toward determining what kind of team Gonzaga actually is.
To understand what Coach Mark Few is asking of him this season, you have to understand what he actually did last year, because the gap between the player who logged eight minutes against Alabama in November and the player who scored 21 in the final WCC Tournament game in March is both dramatic and instructive.
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Saint-Supery played all 35 games with 17 starts last season, averaging 8.6 points, 3.8 assists, and 2.8 rebounds in 23 minutes per game on 41% shooting from the field and 40.3% from three. He led the team in assists and three-pointers made, earned a spot on the WCC All-Freshman Team, and by February had effectively won the starting point guard job over Braeden Smith. Smith transferred to Notre Dame in the offseason. Few is doubling down on Saint-Supery and fewer point guards in the country will enter the season with more to prove.
From Shared Minutes to Undisputed Starter
Saint-Supery came to Gonzaga having already played professionally in Spain’s ACB league and represented his country at EuroBasket as the youngest player on the roster since Ricky Rubio. He was definitely skilled and dynamic as a playmaker, the question was whether Few would trust such a young player to run the offense on his own, and when. Braeden Smith started the season at the one after a redshirt year under the tutelage of Ryan Nembhard, and Saint-Supery’s minutes through November and into December were inconsistent, ranging from 8 against Alabama…
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