Six Key Takeaways From Gonzaga’s 2026 Kraziness in the Kennel

More than 6,000 people filled the McCarthey Athletic Center on Saturday afternoon to watch a 20-minute intrasquad scrimmage featuring a roster that has barely existed for four months. For a Gonzaga team that spent most of the summer waiting on eligibility rulings, the afternoon went about as well as it could have gone. The two teams combined to shoot 18 of 32 from three, committed just eight turnovers between them, and Davis Fogle scored 30 points all on his own, breaking the Kraziness scoring record of 19 that Braden Huff set in 2023.

The dunk contest also returned this year in place of the three-point contest, and although Xaivian Lee and Juwan Ekanga put up a valiant effort, it was once again Fogle who stole the show by leaping over center Massamba Diop for a ridiculous slam in the contest’s penultimate round. Braden Huff played in front of a full Kennel crowd for the first time in 268 days, since the dislocated kneecap that ended his season in January, and finished with 11 points and seven rebounds. Meanwhile, Houston transfer Isiah Harwell scored 17 in a little more than 17 minutes and made four of five from three.

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None of this settles anything, obviously. Gonzaga shot 33.3% from three last season and never made more than 14 in a game, and one October afternoon against teammates is not necessarily strong evidence that three point woes won’t plague again, but 18 is definitely a hard number to ignore. Purdue is less than a month out and a bunch of eligibility questions are still open for the Zags. But Kraziness once again delivered the things fans have been waiting for since last March: a real look at this year’s Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Here are five things worth taking from Saturday.

1. Davis Fogle Might Be Even Better Than We Anticipated

We are all living in the Fogleverse now. Thirty points in a 20-minute scrimmage has got to be the single most impressive Kraziness performance in the event’s long history. And Fogle got those points from everywhere on the floor. He…

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