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It was a weekend of celebration for Zag Nation, as longtime Gonzaga basketball head coach Mark Few was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday as part of the class of 2026.
Few was voted in by the committee in just his second year of eligibility, joining the HOF alongside NBA head coach Doc Rivers, former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire, and a trio of WNBA legends in Candace Parker, Elena Della Donne, and Chamique Holdsclaw.
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Few joins John Stockton as the second Gonzaga icon to get enshrined in Springfield, and the Spokane native was one of three HOFers to present coach Few on Saturday night.
“I grew up on campus and snuck into the gym and had to sell programs to get into the games and when you do that, you never imagine there would be a situation where a coach of the Gonzaga University Bulldogs would be a Hall of Famer,” Stockton said. “To watch a man do this over 20 some seasons and earn this and retain his humble nature. It’s pretty exciting.”
Rarified air
Few became the fifth active head coach to earn this honor, joining Rick Pitino (St. John’s), Bill Self (Kansas), Tom Izzo (Michigan State), and longtime friend John Calipari (Arkansas), who was one of the three HOFers to present Few, alongside Stockton and Grant Hill, who worked with Few at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Nov 20, 2022; Spokane, Washington, USA; Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari, left, shakes hands with Gonzaga Bulldogs head coach Mark Few. | USA TODAY Sports
Few was complimentary of coach Cal, in part because he was willing to play Gonzaga at a time when many other high-profile programs shied away.
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“My main man Cal, for a friendship that started because nobody wanted to play us and we couldn’t get a game against the quote-unquote blue bloods,” Few said. “So we started our own series and that worked out pretty dang good for us.”
Few played Cal at Memphis four times in the early 2010’s, losing all four, but those matchups were key in…
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