Miscellaneous WAC minutiae

A Closer Look At LA TECH Hoops has a recap of the Rainbow Warrior-Bulldog game from Thursday.

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We usually don't bother with previews but tonight's Nevada at Idaho game is intriguing for three reasons:

1) the Vandals won the contest earlier in Reno
2) the Vandals are 8-1 at home this season
3) the Vandals are the surprise of the conference

Go here for Chris Murray's preview of the game. Here are Murray's keys to the game and a prediction.

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Where's Reggie?

Okay, the head coaching positions are available at Arizona, Alabama and Georgia with some other top level jobs bound to be available by season's end (Gary Williams' reign seems to be imploding and there's a terrible rift between him and the AD's office), so who pursues Reggie Theus and vice versa?

We have no insight but Reggie and Arizona sure seems like a match made in...well, you insert the location. As best we know, Reggie's family is still in Los Angeles, which is a short plane ride to and from Tucson. The Wildcat basketball program needs a major dose of favorable publicity considering the headlines of the last couple of seasons. Reggie is even more charismatic than Lute even in his prime. Arizona has to begin nabbing (and keeping) top level recruits again and Reggie can and will succeed in wooing talent. It's should also be a job that keeps Reggie there (as long as he harbors no delusions that the NBA is where he should be). The Arizona AD HAS to get this one right, after a series of decisions and non-decisions that have been less than acceptable and Reggie would get Arizona back among the big national players, if hired.

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Anthony Thomas says it's a done deal.

Here's the junior Boise State guard after Thursday's loss to Idaho:

"...It was horrible," Thomas said. "I didn't want to be a part of the first team to lose to them. I heard that they guaranteed victory today, and they did that. ... They stormed the court, and it hurt. I will never feel like that again. You can quote it or do what you want - Anthony Thomas will never lose to the Idaho Vandals again as long as he plays here..."

Wow. The two teams meet again on February 18 in Boise.

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6-6 Rainer Beach (WA) high schooler Corey Stern has verbaled to idaho. Go to the basketball message boatd at GoVandals.net for some information.