Gonzaga’s next trip to Seattle will bring a familiar regional matchup back to Climate Pledge Arena.
The Bulldogs and Oregon are set to meet in the Battle in Seattle on Jan. 30, with tip-off time and broadcast details still to come. It will be the 16th edition of the event, which has produced plenty of high-profile games over the years.
Gonzaga enters the matchup with a 9-6 record all-time in the Battle in Seattle. The most recent edition came in 2024, when then-No.
7 Gonzaga dropped a 90-89 overtime decision to No. 4 Kentucky.
The showdown with Oregon also adds another chapter to a series that has been played 28 times overall. Oregon has controlled the matchup historically, winning 22 of the previous meetings, but Gonzaga has taken the last two.
That stretch includes a win in the 2019 Battle 4 Atlantis and last season’s 91-82 victory in Portland, when the then-No. 7 Bulldogs pulled away behind 20 points from Braden Huff.
The two programs went a long stretch without seeing each other before that recent run. They had not played from 1999 until the 2019 meeting, and the first game in the series goes all the way back to Feb. 14, 1912, when Oregon beat Gonzaga 29-22 in Spokane.
The Battle in Seattle has regularly featured ranked teams and tight finishes, including Gonzaga’s overtime win over Missouri in 2003 and the overtime loss to Connecticut in 2008. Other notable results in the event include Gonzaga wins over Arizona, Kansas State, Tennessee and Davidson, along with losses to Nevada, Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama and Kentucky.
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