With the news that Killian Tillie will return to the Gonzaga Bulldogs for his senior year, the newly reformatted way-too-early top 25 polls began to trickle out. The Zags, sort of expectedly, averaged out somewhere in the low teens in a variety of national publications.
The mothership, for example, put Gonzaga at No. 13, their lowest preseason ranking since the 2016-17 season, saying:
The somewhat-but-not-really-surprising defection of Zach Norvell was a blow, but Killian Tillie’s decision to stick in Spokane for another year should keep Gonzaga near or inside the top 10 in most preseason rankings.