Monday morning WAC nuggets

Relative to our last post, Chris Murray is also writing about the 'ceiling' but he is measuring the potential of each Wolf Pack player. By the way, we didn't realize this earlier but Nevada has no seniors. But in today's climate that doesn't mean there won't be an opening or two come next April/May:

Ranking the Pack basketball players by 'upside'
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
6/7/2010

Summer school at UNR begins today, which means a handful of incoming Wolf Pack basketball players will be on campus for their first set of classes. Coach David Carter said last week he expected freshmen Deonte Burton, Jordan Finn, Jordan Burris and Jerry Evans to take part in the session, as well as junior-college transfer Illiwa Baldwin. Devonte Elliott, Kevin Panzer and Derrell Conner are all expected to take part in the second session of summer school.

So, this is probably a good time to look at some of these new additions to the team. Let's rank the Wolf Pack's 13 scholarship players based on how much "upside" they have (if we're doing walk-ons as well, I'd rank them Keith Fuetsch, Keith Olson, Adam Carp). The word "upside" can often be a hard-to-describe term, but we'll take a crack anyway...

Go here for the remainder.

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The name George Matthews doesn't conjure up excitement as the word accountant probably comes next. But the following GM breaks the mold and is collecting basketball offers, including one from Fresno State -- but he's going to land at a high major:

Anthony Ray
ArizonaPreps.com Recruiting Analyst
June 6, 2010

St. Mary's High School graduate, 6-foot-6, 215-pound senior forward George Matthews is headed to Westwind Prep International (WPI) next fall, but this summer he is working on his college recruitment.

As a result, Matthews has quickly become one of the top sought after wing prospects on the West Coast as of late - first generating serious interest from the University of Oklahoma last month, and now bringing home his biggest scholarship offer up to date...

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This is news to us or our memory is playing tricks (yet again):

Jeff Goodman is reporting that former Hawaii backcourter Jeremy Lay is now at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, a member of the Division II Lone Star Conference North Division.

Here are Goodman's other WAC listees (a number of other WAC transfers are absent):

* Yonas Berhe, 5-10, G, Soph., Louisiana Tech
* London Giles, 6-3, G, Soph., Nevada
* Da’shawn Gomez, 6-1, G, Fr., New Mexico State
* Taylor Kelly, 6-2, G, RS Fr., Fresno
* Mychal Ladd, 6-5, G, Soph., Fresno
* Aleksandar Milovic, 6-7, F, Soph., Hawaii
* Brandon Sperling, 6-4, G, Soph., Fresno
* Corey Stern, 6-7, F, Fr., Idaho
* Tyler Young, 6-7, F, Fr, Boise State ­ COLLEGE OF IDAHO