Mark Few

Mark Few of Gonzaga University is one of the most successful head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history. His players have made Bulldog basketball a household name across the country from a small city in eastern Washington. He served as an assistant coach at GU for 10 seasons prior to take the reins of the program in 1999. Coach Few has the highest winningest percentage of all coaches at 83.3% (715-143) in his 25 seasons.

In the West Coast Conference, under Few, the Zags have won or shared 22 regular season league titles in his 25 seasons, and Few has coached players to the conference tournament championship 21 times. Gonzaga appeared in the national championship game in 2017 and in 2021. With Few at the helm, GU has appeared in the Elite Eight six times (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024) and in the Sweet 16 13 times (2000, ’01, ’06, ’09, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’21, ‘22, ’23 and ‘24). Few and his wife, Marcy, have raised tens of millions of dollars for cancer research over the last 25 years, including hosting the country’s largest Coaches vs. Cancer event, presenting the Ronald McDonald Charities Classic, endowing a weeklong camp for children with cancer, and spearheading the Community Cancer fund in Spokane.

Few has coached numerous Wooden Award All Americans and 21 consensus All-Americans, nine Academic All-Americans, 98 all-conference selections, 17 WCC Players of the Year, 10 league newcomers of the year and nine league defenders of the year. Wooden Award runner-up Adam Morrison was drafted by the Charlotte Bobcats in 2006. Wooden Award All American Chet Holmgren was drafted #2 by Oklahoma City in 2022. This past summer Few was an assistant coach for head coach Steve Kerr and the gold medal winning Team USA at the Paris Olympics.