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Chris Murray/Reno Gazette-Journal wrote an article about the WAC and the number of bids to the Big Dance:

Pack basketball: Is WAC a two-team league come tourney time?
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
November 14, 2009

When Utah State coach Stew Morrill pores over the rosters of this year’s WAC teams, he gets almost a nightmarish vision.

“You take a look at every team and say, ‘Wow, it’s scary what they can be,’” Morrill said.

The coach is in his 24th season as a head coach — 12th with the Aggies — and this year’s WAC might be the most competitive league he has ever been a part of.

“It looks to be a really strong league, as strong as I have seen it in my five years in the WAC,” Morrill said.

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Bob Zagoria had this on Herb Pope's first game with Seton Hall:

"...Herb Pope was one of the new faces trying to blend in, after sitting out as a transfer. He finished with six points, seven rebounds, six assists and four blocks, but was "passive" in his own mind because he tried to show his new teammates that he could fit in..."

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Per Jason Erickson, the WAC Director of Media Relations, Roderick Flemings has been crowned as the initial WAC Player of the Week:

DENVER - Hawai'i's Roderick Flemings has been named the Verizon Wireless Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Nov. 9-15. The honor marks the second career WAC Player of the Week award for Flemings.

Flemings, a senior from Dallas, Texas (Weatherford College), helped the Rainbow Warriors to a 2-0 record last week with wins over Southern Utah and McNeese State. Flemings tallied 23 points and 12 rebounds in UH's 65-48 season-opening win over Southern Utah. He recorded his second straight double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds in a 73-65 victory over McNeese
State.

On the week, Flemings averaged 18.5 points, 11.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. He shot 55.6 percent from the field (15-of-27).

Other nominees included: Boise State junior guard La'Shard Anderson, Fresno State freshman center Greg Smith, Louisiana Tech sophomore guard Olu Ashaolu, Nevada sophomore forward Luke Babbitt, New Mexico State sophomore center Hamidu Rahman and Utah State junior guard Tyler Newbold.