SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Make it an even 10 straight NCAA tournaments for Gonzaga.

The No. 24 Zags have to fly across the country and play Davidson, the hottest team in college basketball right now, in its home state of North Carolina on Friday morning.

Coach Mark Few doesn't care. The Zags built themselves into a national power by playing anyone, anywhere. This year, they played 10 teams that made the NCAA tournament.

"To make it for 10 straight years is probably the greatest thing we have been able to do here," said Few, an assistant the first year and head coach the past nine.

Gonzaga (25-7) is tied with Texas and Wisconsin for the sixth-longest streak of NCAA appearances behind Arizona (24), Kansas (19), Kentucky (17), Duke (13) and Michigan State (11).

The Zags have never gotten beyond the Elite Eight, a feat recorded by the 1999 team that first captured national attention.

"We want to beat that team," guard Jeremy Pargo said.

To do that they have to first get past Davidson, which has the nation's longest winning streak at 22.

"They're hotter than hot," Few said.

Much is being made of the fact that seventh-seeded Gonzaga has to fly more than 2,000 miles to Raleigh, N.C., for the game Friday, while 10th-seeded Davidson (26-6) only has to travel about 100 miles from Davidson, N.C.

"We're going to have to play them straight up basically in their own backyard," Few said.

Cross-country trips into hostile arenas are nothing new to the Zags. This season they traveled to the East Coast to play Connecticut and Saint Joseph's, and played at Memphis. They travel so much that boosters recently provided a 30-passenger charter plane so the team can avoid commercial flights to road games.

Pargo, the West Coast Conference player of the year, is looking forward to the trip.

"We just want to come out and represent ourselves and the program, come out and play hard, leave some guys stunned on the East Coast about how hard we play," Pargo said.

The Zags have won eight of their past nine games, losing only the WCC title game to San Diego to put themselves in the position of requiring an invitation.

The Zags always play a brutal nonconference schedule to grab the attention of Top 25 voters before entering the WCC campaign. With three WCC teams making the NCAAs for the first time ever, the league season was no picnic, either.

This season they beat NCAA participant teams Western Kentucky, Connecticut, Georgia and Saint Joseph's. They lost to NCAA teams Memphis, Washington St., Oklahoma and Tennessee. They split with league rivals San Diego and Saint Mary's.

Davidson went 20-0 in the Southern Conference.

The Gonzaga-Davidson winner will face the winner of the No. 2 Georgetown-No. 15 Maryland-Baltimore County game in the Midwest Region. Kansas is the region's top seed.

Davidson relies on guards Stephen Curry and Jason Richards. Curry, son of NBA player Del Curry, averages 25.1 points per game, fifth nationally. His 139 3-pointers are tied for first in the nation.

"You got to slow a guy like that down," Pargo said of Curry, and will likely be assigned the task.

Richards averages eight assists per game, best in the country.

Davidson lost to North Carolina, Duke and UCLA this season. Its best win is against Winthrop, an NCAA team. The teams have no common opponents and have never faced each other.

This is Davidson's third-straight NCAA tournament appearance and fifth since 1998 under 19-year coach Bob McKillop. Davidson hasn't won an NCAA tournament game since 1969, when Lefty Driesell was coach.