Friday's report on last night's WAC games

Well, it wasn't pretty but Nevada will take it because with the victory comes a WAC regular season championship. Congrats to the guys from Reno.

It was a game that brought to mind a "I went to a basketball game and a rugby scrum broke out" sense as the Wolf Pack eventually downed New Mexico State 65-61. Olek Czyz, Malik Story and Dario Hunt scored 15, 14 and 10 points respectively plus Hunt blocked six shots while the Aggies were paced by Wendell McKines' 19/13 double-double.

Chris Murray was a'twitterin' and the same for Jason Groves.

Joe Santoro, Chris Murray, Dan Hinxman, Sam Wasson and Jason Groves cover the action.

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Idaho led host Hawaii 45-27 after 20 minutes. UH pulled within nine early in the second half but that was as close as the Rainbow Warriors came in falling 82-63. Deremy Geiger paced the Vandals with 20 points and teammate Stephen Madison scored 17. Zane Johnson was back on track, shooting 4-8 from three-point range while totaling 18 points. It was another poor defensive night for the islanders as Idaho shot 51% overall to 35% for Gib Arnold's crew and Don Verlin's bunch also won the battle of the boards 43-26.

Brian McInnis tweeted the matchup as did Josh Wright.

Wes Nakama offers multi-media coverage and Wright serves up his take.

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Louisiana Tech came to the San Joaquin and departed with a 75-70 victory over Fresno State. A quartet of southern Bulldogs -- Trevor Gaskins, Raheem Appleby, Romario Souza and Brandon Gibson -- at 16, 15, 12 and 12 points respectively. Gibson also nabbed 11 boards for a double-double. Jonathan Wills led the northern Bulldogs with both 16 points and eight rebounds. LT shot 52% overall to FSU's 41%.

Robert Kuwada was on press row.

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It was too much Medlin as the Utah State sophomore continued his hot streak with 26 points (9-13 overall shooting, 5-8 on treys) in pacing USU to a 71-61 triumph over host San Jose State. Brockeith Pane contributed 14 points and six assists versus just one turnover while little-used Mitch Bruneel hit four of five long distance shots to total 12 points. Guard James Kinney was the top Spartan scorer with 24 points and forward Wil Carter earned yet another double-double with 19 points and 13 boards. The Aggies shot 55% as a team to SJSU's 39%.

Shawn Harrison game reports (from San Jose so offer a shout out to Herald-Journal management) and Matt Sonnenberg game reviews.