NCAA Basketball: Mount Rushmores for the top 25 programs of all-time

Gonzaga Basketball Mount Rushmore: Mark Few, John Stockton, Adam Morrison, Frank Burgess

Mark Few

The Gonzaga Bulldogs weren’t necessarily irrelevant in the college basketball world before Mark Few took over the program, but they were not even considered to be one of the better mid-major programs in the country. They had made the NCAA Tournament just once before he got the head job – they’ve now made 19 consecutive tournaments.

His 568 wins are obviously a program record, as are his 18 West Coast Conference regular season titles and 13 WCC tournament titles. Few finally led the program to their first ever Final Four in 2017, where they lost in the national championship game to the North Carolina Tar Heels.

John Stockton

Well before Gonzaga became one of the elite programs in the country, one of the greatest point guards of all-time suited up for the Bulldogs. John Stockton played sparingly as a freshman and gradually improved before a dominant senior season in which he averaged 20.9 points, 7.2 assists and 3.9 steals per game.

Stockton was named WCC Player of the Year in 1984 before he entered the NBA Draft and was taken in the first round by the Utah Jazz, the start of what was one of the best careers of any point guard. He is still the league’s all-time leader in assists and steals.

Adam Morrison

Adam Morrison did not have the NBA career many expected from him, given his illustrious college career (injuries have something to do with that), but he is the most iconic Gonzaga player of the Mark Few era.

A noted scorer, Morrison actually led the country in scoring during his junior season with 28.1 points per game in 2006, winning a handful of National Player of the Year awards, while being a consensus First-Team All-American.

Frank Burgess

Frank Burgess spent three years at Gonzaga from 1958 to 1961 following a stint in the Air Force and still holds almost all the program’s scoring records. He’s the all-time leader in points (2,196), career scoring average (28.1), field goals made/attempted and free throws made/attempted.

His professional career lasted all of two seasons with the Hawaii Chiefs in the American Basketball League (he was also picked in the third round by the Los Angeles Lakers) before returning to school to earn a law degree.