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2023-24 Men's Basketball Roster
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Jersey Number 30
Gabe McGlothan
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-7 / 235
- Position:
- Forward
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Gilbert, Ariz.
- High School:
- Basha HS
- Prev School:
- Southeast Missouri State
- Major:
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Bio
| Read | McGlothan returns home to GCU Watch | Lopes Insider with Gabe McGlothan |
- Earned a summer-league spot with the Denver Nuggets in June 2024 and later signed an Exhibit 10 contract.
Career Summary |
- Spent five seasons in the Lopes program including four on the court after redshirting in 2019-20. Played one season at Southeast Missouri State in 2018-19. GCU went 94-32 (.746) in his four on-court seasons, won three WAC Tournament Championships and won the school's first NCAA tournament game.
- Ended GCU career ranking highly amongst the program's records in:
- Rebounds (856) - No. 5 all-time; No. 1 in D-I era.
- Points (1,329) - No. 8 all-time; No. 4 in D-I era.
- Minutes (3,380) - No. 3 in D-I era.
- 3-pointers (127) - Tied for No. 8 all-time; No. 5 in D-I era.
- Scored 1,562 career points with 1,329 coming in his four years on the floor for GCU.
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Grand Canyon |
2023-24 | Redshirt Senior
- Awarded with first-team All-WAC honors for the first time in his career, backing up a Preseason All-WAC selection.
- Became the 27th all-time member of GCU's 1,000-point club and fifth at the D-I level on Dec. 16 vs. Portland.
- Scored 435 points, 14th most in a GCU D-I season. Was third on the team at 12.8 points per game.
- Won three WAC Player of the Week honors: back-to-back weeks ending on Dec. 11 and Dec. 18 as well as Jan. 8.
- Led the Lopes in rebounding for the second straight season. His 249 boards ranked fourth in GCU's D-I single-season records. His average of 7.3 rebounds was sixth in the WAC.
- Blocked 31 shots, the fifth-most in a GCU D-I season.
- Ranked fourth in the conference (min. 50 attempts) with a 39.8% 3-point percentage, more than a 5% improvement from his previous career-best season in 2022-23.
- Collected six double-doubles on the season including two in top-25 wins over San Diego State on Dec. 5 (had nine rebounds in first half) and Saint Mary's on March 22. Tied for fourth-most double-doubles in the WAC.
- Logged 11 rebounds and three steals in GCU's win over Saint Mary's, both establishing new records for GCU's D-I NCAA tournament games. Also had 12 points.
- Recorded four steals in GCU's conference tourney championship win against UT Arlington, matching GCU's record for a WAC Tournament game.
- Had a season-high 28 points at Seattle U on Jan. 20.
- Had a season-high 14 rebounds against Northern Arizona on Nov. 12.
- Knocked down all 10 of his free throws in a Feb. 1 win over Seattle U.
- Honored on the All-WAC second team, backing up a preseason selection to the All-WAC second team.
- Landed on the WAC All-Tournament Team after tying teammate Ray Harrison with 80 points for the tournament.
- Ranked second on the team in scoring (12.8 points per game) and led the team in rebounding (7.6 per game) and field-goal percentage (52.2%).
- His rebounding average of 7.6 ranked third in the conference for all games. Ranked second in the WAC in conference games at 7.5 per game. Ranked 58th nationally with 274 total rebounds, a season-rebounding total that was No. 3 in GCU's D-I era.
- Ranked second in the WAC with seven double-doubles and second in the WAC with 10 double-digit rebounding efforts.
- Reached the 1,000-point mark for his career in a 12-point effort against Seattle U on Feb. 24.
- Was one of two Lopes (Ray Harrison) to start all 36 games.
- Scored a career-high 35 points to lead GCU to a quarterfinal win in the WAC Tournament against Seattle U. It tied Carlos Johnson's 2019 effort for GCU's top-scoring WAC Tournament performance and tied Utah Tech's Cameron Gooden for highest-scoring performance of the 2023 WAC Tournament.
- Named WAC Player of the Week on Feb. 20 after combining for 47 points on 19-for-26 (73.1%) shooting with 19 rebounds against UTRGV and Abilene Christian.
- Finished the season by scoring in double figures in 10 of the final 11 games.
- Pulled down a career-high 18 rebounds in a nationally televised win over Northern Iowa on Nov. 22 in Kansas City. It was the highest single-game rebounding mark in the WAC for the season, and the No. 3 mark in GCU's D-I era.
- Started 30 of GCU's 31 games and finished third on the team in scoring (9.3 points per game) and second in rebounding (6.6 rebounds per game).
- Finished 10th in the WAC in rebounds per game.
- Had a team-high four double-doubles on the year: Nov. 22 vs. Wyoming (17 points, 12 rebounds), Jan. 15 vs. Tarleton (11 points, 11 rebounds), Feb. 26 vs. Sam Houston (11 points, 12 rebounds) and March 3 vs. Utah Valley (10 points, 12 rebounds).
- Posted a GCU career-best 19 points in GCU's championship-game appearance against New Mexico State on March 11.
- Ranked second on the team with 58.3% field goal shooting and third with 5.3 rebounds per game.
- Did not start a game but was first off the bench on 12 occasions which was second-highest on the team.
- Had 14 points and seven rebounds to help propel GCU to WAC-opening win at Tarleton on Jan. 8.
- Finished a Jayden Stone lob off the backboard with a dunk on Jan. 16 vs. Bethesda in a play that landed No. 3 on SportsCenter's top 10. “That’s the connection we have and the connection we’re going to have for years on forward too. That’s an exciting feeling. You can see how that brotherhood felt.”
- Led the team and collected a season-high 14 rebounds in team's blowout win over Seattle U in the semfinals of the WAC tournament on March 12. Recorded first GCU double-double with 14 points.
- Ended the year with double-figure scoring outputs in three of the last four games.
- Redshirted season due to transfer rules and injury.
- "It gave me a new perspective. It took my identity from being in basketball and pushed me to my limits to find something else. That's when I found my faith. God really spoke to me in that moment." Video
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Southeast Missouri State |
Cape Girardeau, Mo. |
2018-19 | Freshman
- Made a late-season surge where he started 11 of the final 12 games. Ended season shooting 55.1 percent (43 for 78) from the field in final nine games.
- Finished 10th in rebounding (7.1 per game) during conference play in the Ohio Valley Conference.
- Had four double-doubles on the season, all coming in the final two months of the season.
- Scored 18 points and pulled down 16 rebounds in first start against SIU Edwardsville on Jan. 24.
- Scored career-high 27 points on an efficient 10-for-14 shooting clip against Tennessee Tech on Feb. 7.
Putnam Science Academy |
Putnam, Conn. |
- Played 42 games for the national prep champion.
- Committed to Army-West Point out of high school. "It taught me discipline. It taught me structure. I loved it. It just didn't fit basketball-wise." Played at a prep school near Army-West Point before moving over to Putnam.
Basha HS |
Chandler, Ariz. |
- Named the Premier Region Player of the Year and an all-state honoree for a Class 6A state championship team that went 30-1 in 2016-17.
- Team won the state title inside GCU Arena in 2017.
- Averaged 14.2 points and 9.4 rebounds in 2016-17 and 11.1 points and 8.2 rebounds in 2015-16.
Personal |
- Parents are Kevin McGlothan and Janelle Danley.
- Mother, Janelle, is a University Admissions Manager at GCU.
- Brother, Aidan, played soccer at GCU from 2014 to 2017.
- Has fought through several knee injuries to return to floor.
- Favorite motivational quote is: "A good leader is everybody's floor, not their ceiling."
- One of 14 student-athletes hand picked to be a part of the NCAA Men's Basketball Elite Student-Athlete Symposium in Sep. 2023. Story
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