Dominick Harris is heading back to the West Coast Conference, and this time the former Gonzaga guard is landing at Pacific.
The Tigers announced Monday morning that Harris will join Dave Smart’s team for the upcoming season, giving the 6-foot-3 guard his fifth stop in seven years. It also makes Pacific his third different WCC school and his third team in California.
Harris’ path has been anything but settled. The Murrieta, California native spent three seasons at Gonzaga after arriving in Spokane ahead of the 2020-21 season, then moved on to LMU, UCLA and Loyola Chicago. Last season, he appeared in seven games for the Ramblers in the A-10.
At Gonzaga, Harris was part of the highly touted 2020 recruiting class that also featured Jalen Suggs and Julian Strawther. Suggs is about to enter his sixth NBA season with the Orlando Magic, and Strawther is heading into his fourth with the Denver Nuggets. Harris’ college career, meanwhile, has been shaped by injuries and constant movement.
As a freshman, he played in 25 games for a Gonzaga team that reached the 2021 national championship game after Suggs’ memorable bank shot against UCLA in the Final Four. Harris averaged 3.0 points in 7.2 minutes per game, a role that looked a lot like Strawther’s 3.4 points in 7.4 minutes on a loaded roster.
A foot injury wiped out Harris’ entire 2021-22 season, and he was limited to 13 games in 2022-23, which ended up being his final year in Spokane.
His best stretch came after he transferred to LMU in 2023-24 and stayed in the WCC. Playing for Stan Johnson and the Lions, Harris averaged 14.3 points and 3.3 rebounds in 24 games while leading the conference with a 44.8% mark from three-point range.
That production sent him back into the portal, but the move to UCLA didn’t go as planned. In 11 games for Mick Cronin’s Bruins in 2024-25, Harris shot 2-for-18 from deep and 4-for-26 overall. By mid-December, he had fallen out of the rotation and logged only 11 total minutes in conference play.
He then went east to Loyola Chicago, but the minutes never came there either. Harris played in just seven games for Drew Valentine’s team this past season, averaging 1.4 points in 6.3 minutes as the Ramblers finished 9-24.
Now Harris returns to a Gonzaga-less WCC with what is presumably his final year of eligibility. Pacific is also trying to build from a major offseason reset, with nine transfers and three freshmen joining returning sophomore Jaion Pitt in Smart’s system.
If Harris can get anywhere close to the form he showed at LMU, he should have a real shot to carve out minutes. Pacific’s rotation also includes Pitt, Marshall transfer Jaden Winston, Dartmouth transfer Connor Amundsen and San Diego wing Gavin Ripp.
Harris joins Dusty Stromer and Pavle Stosic as former Zags from before 2025-26 who have found new homes in the transfer portal this offseason.
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