The best team in the WAC

We're not bandwagon-ers by any stretch nor do we bleed true blue (actually periwinkle is our favorite color although don't expect any college team to go there) but this must be typed:

Utah State is the best team in the WAC this season.

Not best talent or best athletes -- best squad.

While we don our fire-retardant suits and install our anti-incoming ordnance shield, here's why:

1. Stew Morrill's charges are currently operating like a precise machine, absolutely unselfish, each part accepting and carrying out his role, thereby enabling the sum to be greater than its parts.

2. The physical offensive style Morrill employs wears down opponents who begin thinking about that next screen and how to lessen the impact rather than completely focusing on defending.

3. Each Aggie takes defending seemingly like a blood oath and, again, body-to-body serious.

4. The Utah State players are multi-dimensional -- not just shooters or rebounders or defenders or ballhandlers -- more so than other WAC rosters.

5. USU typically makes the fewest mental errors of all the WAC squads.

There is probably more but this will suffice.

Although it may appear we are attempting to cover our rather prominent behinds, being the best doesn't always translate into winning regular season honors or even the conference tournament.

New Mexico State has the talent to nab one or both.

Louisiana Tech has the tools to get on a roll.

Nevada is a darkhorse that can't be completely counted out.

But all lack the 40-minute consistency USU has demonstrated, which is why we haven't selected any of the trio as the best unit in the 2009-2010 WAC.