Thursday's WAC basketball offerings

New Mexico State did the job in putting the Lobos on the endangered species list with a 62-53 victory in the lair called The Pit. Jason Groves has the game report as does Sam Wasson. Bleed Crimson also offers video.

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It was the proverbial close but no cigar as SJSU fell 83-81 to USF on The Hilltop.

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Robert Kuwada talked with Coach Rodney Terry about the trio of signees to Fresno State basketball.

At the Save Mart Center MB, DogEatDawg has posted that Bulldog center Daquan Brown is suspended for the first semester.

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Chris Murray writes about Pacific coming to Reno on Thursday night and his article contains this line about the 2011-12 combined output of Dario Hunt and Olek Czyz: "... 8.5 points on 8.7 percent shooting this year ..." Wow. Hope your floor is carpeted.  

Chris also offers his keys to the contest plus a prediction.

To complete the trifecta, Chris tells us about Coach David Carter's fourth signee -- second big -- of the early period. It sounds like the young man was originally brought here though the connections of Utah State Director of Basketball Operations Lance Beckert.

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Here's a compilation of the Utah State recruiting class.

But what about Casey Oliverson? Is his planning to go on a mission out of high school (from June 2010, Shawn Harrison has that in this article) a factor? Does the young man want to wait on signing until he returns?

Tony Jones breaks the news on Coach Stew Morrill corralling a 2013 7-footer. Tony then fleshes out the young man in a blog post.