Your Tuesday notes and links

Let's begin with a pair of 'peripheral' recruiting notes:

Barry Bolton has a Scout article up today (Scout sub required) about Washington State landing a junior college backcourter from Florida. So why the mention? Two WAC teams also offered:

"...Faisel Aden (6-4, 185), who averaged 20-plus ppg this past season and comes into this year a preseason second team junior college All-American, verbally committed to Ken Bone this morning, will sign with WSU on Wednesday and suit up for the Cougs in 2010

Aden said he was getting interest from "all over", including Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma State, Miss State, Fresno State, Nebraska, Clemson and others. In addition to Washington State, he had offers from Oklahoma State, Fresno State, Mississippi State, Utah State and Houston..."

Utah State also gets a mention in relation to this Phoenix, Arizona prepster point in a Tom LaCock-written Rivals article (Rivals sub required):

"The 6-foot-1, 160-pound [Collin] Woods averaged 15 points, four assists and two rebounds per game last season...

...In addition to Colorado State, Woods also has a scholarship offer from Weber State and is hearing from schools like Utah State, Portland and Washington State. While it may be odd to think of a basketball player from Phoenix holding two offers from schools in the Rocky Mountain Region, Woods said the offers have come from personal connections..."

Dayton Morinaga/Honolulu Advertiser offers a very solid roster and positional preview of the Rainbow Warriors here.

Chris Murray must have gotten no sleep yet again. He has a post about the Wolf Pack looking to pick up the pace this season, another featuring the 3.0 version of Armon Johnson (note the Springsteen-ish headline) and differences to look for in Nevada's exhibition tonight.

A little birdie brought our attention to JayDee Luster's first game for Wyoming after one of our earlier posts expressed curiosity on how he would perform and also noted he was annointed a team captain -- this despite not having yet played for the Cowboys: "I know you were curious about how well JayDee Luster would do at Wyoming. Well if the exhibition game was any indication, he will be a serious contender for MWC newcomer of the year. He scored 8 points but most importantly had 11 assists with only two turnovers. He is a difference maker and a one man fast break."