Parsing The WAC: Saturday's WAC links and notes

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Saturday's WAC links and notes

Thanks to 4thyearsophomore for posting this on ther basketball board at the SCOUT USU site:

Third-team All-American juco transfer to redshirt next season
Matt Sonnenberg
Aggie Town Square
4-23-2010

Chaz Spicer left a legacy at Utah State as the ultimate go-to guy with a game on the line.

Gary Wilkinson was the leader and Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year on a team that won more games than any other team in USU history...

Go here for the remainder.

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Here's Jason Groves adding more to the newest Aggie additions. They appear to be good pickups, eh?

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Ditto for Daniel Lyght on Paul George's decison to play for pay.

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Jeff Portnoy writes his last blog of the season on UH basketball.

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This is intriguing. Alan Utter of the BruinBlitz.com site wrote an article about UCLA basketball recruiting on April 23 that contained this item:

"...In other news, BruinBlitz.com sources have confirmed that UCLA has officially offered Deonte Burton, the 6-2 combo guard from Compton (Calif.) Centennial, a scholarship to play basketball there next season. Burton has been waiting for this offer and is now deciding which school he will attend in the fall..."

Fascinating. Coach Ben Howland doesn't have the greatest reputation with a few of the various high level club basketball teams but we have no idea if such might have been a factor in Burton's decision to go with Nevada. Howland has produced successful backcourters (although not necessarily at the moment) but the Bruin grind-it-out offensive style isn't attractive to some guard prospects. Plus, the possibility is that Burton may have felt denigrated bu such a tardy offer. Or maybe the senior felt his talent level meshed more with that of the Western Athletic Conference.

Who really knows but when is the last time UCLA missed on a recruiting target when the opposition was a mid-major? (Ray McCallum and Troy Ziegler don't count due to deciding to play for their fathers respectively).

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