Gonzaga’s choppy start during Monday’s season opener against Texas Southern had nothing on the starting lineup fiasco that occurred minutes before tipoff at McCarthey Athletic Center.

The evening’s first slip-up could be attributed to an unnamed Gonzaga assistant, who accidentally penciled Tyon Grant-Foster’s name into the starting lineup that was submitted to the scorer’s table. The spot was supposed to go to fellow transfer Adam Miller, but with lineups finalized and no time to make corrections, the Zags were forced to adjust on the fly and called on Grant-Foster to join Braeden Smith, Emmanuel Innocenti, Braden Huff and Graham Ike in the starting five.

“First time in 37 years this has ever happened where one of our assistants put the wrong name in the book for starters,” Gonzaga coach

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