Just three items today

Robert Lumpkins has been with the New Mexico State program for three years, all as a walk-on. Now he has transferred to Rutgers for his senior season. Lumpkins played in eight game -- starting five of them -- last season for the Aggies, averaging 4.0 points and 3.8 rebounds a game in just under 20 minutes a contest. He's a native of D.C. who played a season at Kilgore College in Texas, redshirted one year and then played two in Las Cruces and now is back in the east.

Here's Adam Zagoria tweeting:

#  New Rutgers big man Robert Lumpkins is listed at 6-7, 215 pounds    

# Lumpkins will have one year of eligibility at Rutgers

# Rutgers coach Mike Rice adds some frontcourt depth for 2010 with New Mex State transfer Robert Lumpkins

*** Adam has posted a full article on Lumpkins -- go here for that.


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 Rush The Court offers this item today:

"...New Mexico State picked up a commitment from French-born Remi Barry who most recently went to high school in California. Barry will have to sit out a year as he didn’t qualify based on NCAA requirement, which is reportedly due to difficulty analyzing his academic transcript from two continents."

We're not sure if Barry is out for this season or if he will be able to play come a timely NCAA clearance.

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Kraig Williams, one half of The Refraction duo posted an interesting tweet today:

7 years ago today I started my freshman orientation class at Utah State. Where did that time go?

It's always difficult to sort out intent from typed words but the numerology reminded us of a line of dialogue from "Animal House" spoken by Bluto (John Belushi) after his fraternity, the Deltas, was expelled:

"...Seven years of college down the drain..."

By the way, Utah State must remain in the WAC because The Refraction and Bill Sproat are one of a kind -- simply irreplaceable.