The WAC Hump Day edition

Leon Rice has reached out to UW -- the Wyoming version -- for his third assistant. He's a former Colorado big with almost a decade of play in Europe under his belt which should prove attractive to some recruits. A tip o' the hat to ianforheisman at the broncountry.com basketball message board for this news.

Also, staff reporter Jared Crews at broncocountry.com has the scoop that Grag Graham signee Chris Kupets, a 5-11 Texas junior college point, has undergone a change of mind/heart. A Scout sub is required. The article makes it sound like BSU isn't totally out of the picture but that will be dependent on the willingness of Kupets and Rice agreeing to a period of courtship.

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Joshua Parrott/The Daily Advertiser is reporting that Nikita Johnson, the associate head coach at Louisiana Tech, is heading to Louisiana Lafayette. What doesn't make a lot of sense -- at least to us -- is Johnson's salary uptick will be just $10k although Parrott also reports another source indicated it's a $20k increase. Johnson had a Canadian connection that resulted in Olu Ashaolu coming south and the almost landing of D.J. Wright.

A tip o' the hat to chew4219 at Bulldog Barks & Bytes basketball message board for posting the above.

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And then there were three. Jared Eborn reports Utah State remains in the running for junior college star Stephen Rogers (along with BYU and New Mexico). Who really knows other than the parties involved but could the number of annual departures from Utah -- four and counting so far this off-season -- plus Coach Jim Boylen's 'limited vocabulary' be factors for the Utes being dropped?

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Gib Arnold's hire and resulted ina nice chunk of change for UH basketball as Ferd Lewis reports.

Brian McInnis tells us that Arnold finally had the opportunity to meet individually with his players.