The dog days of summer are underway, and three of the four newest Gonzaga Bulldogs recruits through the 2026 class have arrived a month early before the official team workouts start.
Through the incoming NCAA transfer portal haul, both 6-6 Houston Cougars sophomore shooting guard/wing Isiah Harwell and 7-1 Arizona State Sun Devils sophomore center Massamba Diop are on campus in Spokane, Washington.
As for the incoming high school class, 6-5 four-star wing Luca Foster of Link Academy in Branson, Missouri, has been getting comfortable inside the McCarthey Athletic Center for the last week. 7-0 four-star center Sam Funches told The Slipper Still Fits that he will arrive in the Lilac City next Saturday, June 13, coming from Germantown in Madison, Mississippi.
Gonzaga’s 2026-27 roster is still not finished, with 10 of the 15 scholarship/walk-on spots filled to this point. The future group has had major hits ready to make an immediate impact with Diop and Harwell. But at the same time, dealing with a considerable loss through Alba Berlin combo guard Jack Kayil’s decision to stay in the 2026 NBA Draft.
It’s not completely desperation mode for coach Mark Few and his staff with all the retained and fresh talent already present. But it is time to finalize some bench guard play, plus shooting and defensive support to compete alongside the man running the show, sophomore point guard Mario Saint-Supery.
Here are three potential names with ties to the Zags from all the different walks of basketball life. That’s a late decommit in the 2026 high school class, a college portal target with a rough past, and an international prospect who does have a small sample size of college basketball experience. What a wide and weird range of candidates, but fitting for the ultimate confusion going around the college basketball scene.
2026 Forward Alex Constanza
A name in the 2026 high school recruiting class to pay attention to more than ever after decommitting from the Georgetown Hoyas back in the middle of April. Gonzaga has been in conversations with 6-8 four-star forward Alex Constanza from SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio, among many other high-level programs, since reopening his recruitment.
Constanza has heard from the Baylor Bears, Houston Cougars, Creighton Bluejays, Butler Bulldogs, Auburn Tigers, UNLV Running Rebels, Virginia Cavaliers, Seton Hall Pirates, San Diego State Aztecs, and Florida Atlantic Owls.
Shooting Guard/Wing James White Jr.
This target is a strange one, with ethical confusion surrounding it. If any place could offer a recruit a blessed second opportunity, it would be with Few and the Gonzaga program. Friend of The Slipper Still Fits and current Florida Atlantic Director of Player Development, Eric McClellan, touched on this back in March of 2025.
6-5 shooting guard/wing James White Jr., previously of the New Orleans Privateers, was suspended in January of 2025 for NCAA violations related to sports gambling. That’s one of the many extremely touchy and no-no subjects across the entire college athletic landscape right now.
The soon-to-be 23-year-old averaged 19.2 points on a shooting split of 42.9 field goal percentage/33.0 three-point percentage/64.0 free throw percentage and 7.0 rebounds in 20 games played for New Orleans during the 2024-25 season. White Jr. didn’t suit up anywhere in the 2025-26 season and is standing in no man’s land.
KK Mega Basket Point Guard Savo Drezgic
Out of the Serbian League/ABA League, 6-4 KK Mega Basket point guard Savo Drezgic has had previous conversations with Gonzaga. Drezgic had his taste of college basketball competition and wants more, having been with the Georgia Bulldogs during the 2024-25 season.
Another SEC program that is talking with the traditional lead guard is the Kentucky Wildcats and coach Mark Pope. The California Golden Bears and the Arizona State Wildcats are two additional West Coast schools rumored to have interest.
Drezgic, turning just 20 years of age in August, would be a wonderful international substitute for now Notre Dame Fighting Irish point guard Braeden Smith with the 2026-27 Zags’ second unit, under Saint-Supery.
Who even knows what ends up happening with Gonzaga commit, well-traveled 6-10 Real Madrid forward/center Izan Almansa and his eligibility battle with the NCAA for the upcoming season? If that doesn’t work out for the 20-year-old, it adds another late question mark for the highly-anticipated frontcourt depth that consists of Diop, Funches, star redshirt senior power forward Braden Huff, as well as redshirt freshman forward/small-ball center Parker Jefferson.
Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area… Follow him on X @a_cravalho
