During that time, he has never missed the NCAA Tournament. The only time the 62 year old did not coach in the big dance was in March of 2020 when the tournament was canceled due to COVID.
Few’s Coaching Journey and Career Achievements
Few comes into the 2025-26 season with 742 career wins, and a win percentage of 83. The only active coaches in college basketball with more wins include Rick Pitino, Dana Altman, Kelvin Sampson, John Calipari, Bill Self and Rick Barnes. As a member of the West Coast Conference, the Bulldogs have won just shy of 90% of the games Few has coached.
He is the third longest tenured coach in college basketball, and has shown no signs of slowing down in Spokane. The Oregon native played for a short period of time at Linfield College before transferring to Oregon to play baseball. He eventually graduated from Oregon in 1987.
Few got his coaching career started at the high school level as an assistant before getting hired at Gonzaga in 1989-1990 as a grad assistant and then a paid assistant. It was April of 1999 when he took over for Dan Monson, who left his post to take the job at Minnesota.
Since his time at Gonzaga, the Bulldogs have won the West Coast regular season title 22 times, and the conference tournament 29. Gonzaga has reached the NCAA Tournament twice in his career, with the most recent coming in 2021.
In 2017, Few was named the AP Coach of the Year, while winning the NABC and Naismith Coach of the Year twice in his career. Few was the head coach for Team USA at the Pan American Games in 2015, while an assistant coach on the most recent Gold Medal winning team in Paris.
Gonzaga’s 2025-26 Schedule and Challenges Ahead
The Bulldogs are coming off a 26-9 season of a year ago. While they finished second in the conference, they finished with 14 West Coast Conference wins. They have never finished worse than second in Few’s career, and have gone through two separate stretches of 11 straight seasons of either tying or winning the conference outright.
The 2025-26 season will tip off on November 3 at home against Texas Southern. Before the Bulldogs begin their West Coast Conference slate, they will get meetings with power programs such as Oklahoma, Creighton, Arizona State, Alabama, Maryland, Kentucky, UCLA and Oregon.
The biggest games on the slate include November 24 against the Crimson Tide, December 5 vs. Kentucky and December 13 against UCLA out of the Big Ten.
Expectations for the Bulldogs Moving Forward
When looking at win totals for the 2025-26 season, lock the Bulldogs in for 25 and what they do to exceed that is yet to be seen, but history shows they are good for several more than that. Gonzaga’s consistency under Few has set the bar at an elite level, and with another deep non-conference schedule paired with West Coast dominance, the Bulldogs remain one of the most reliable programs in college basketball.