Additional WAC basketball links, news and notes

Shawn Harrison shines a light on one of the unsung USU Aggies:

Difference maker
Shawn Harrison
Herald-Journal
January 20, 2010

It was not looking good for the Aggies a week ago at Nevada.

The Wolf Pack men’s basketball team had scored nine straight points to build a 62-52 lead. Utah State had come up empty on three offensive possessions, hadn’t scored in two-and-a-half minutes and the Nevada fans were howling.

The Aggies needed a field goal.

Enter Pooh Williams. The junior dialed up a 3-pointer to slow the Wolf Pack. The Aggies would end up rallying for a 79-72 overtime win...

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Plus, he offers a slew of notes and quotes in a separate article here.

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With a top of the fedora to Sam Wasson/BleedCrimson.net for first finding this, Scott Ficklin tells us why Jared Quayle deserved the WAC Player of the Week award over Jahmar Young, his closest competition.

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Dayton Morinaga features Hiram Thompson, Brandon Adams and others here in his Hawaii basketball report. Brian McInnis salutes Adams in a feature here.

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Ah, the vagaries of recruiting. Portland, Portland State, Fresno State and Nevada all received mentions as places of interest once Andy Poling left Gonzaga. So where does he end up? Seattle Pacific.

Here's Jim Meehan with some quotes from Poling on his choice:

"...I just think it should be a really good fit,” Poling said in a telephone interview from his home in Portland. “I really liked the coaching staff, they’re all really good guys and the team is really competitive, top 15 (in NCAA Division II) right now. I lived in Seattle until I was 9 or 10. It’s a great city and it’s a little closer to home. My family can come watch me and it’s a smaller school, and I really liked that about Gonzaga.”

Poling said he’ll enroll for spring quarter in March. He’ll have three seasons of eligibility..."

Portland State, Portland and Nevada were mentioned by Poling in a previous article in the Oregonian.

It's not offical yet...

Nevada now needs to focus on landing a pair of 'bigs' so Diablo Valley CC forward Brandon Adams looks to have to go with his second choice. He's a hard-working power forward type who is a very good jumper but with a small forward body and lacking shooting range:

Adams may head to Hawaii instead of Nevada
Darrell Moody
Nevada Appeal
April 18, 2008

When Diablo Valley College forward Brandon Adams attended a Nevada basketball gamer earlier this season, he made it clear that Nevada was where he wanted to play in 2008.

According to DVC coach Steve Coccimiglio, who sent Mo Charlo and Demarshay Johnson to play for the Wolf Pack, coach Mark Fox hasn't made Adams an offer yet and quite possibly won't.

"I think they had to go in a different direction," Coccimiglio said from his office in Pleasant Hill, Calif. "They are looking for some front-line help (since JaVale McGee left). They need somebody that can come in and play right away up front."

But Nevada coaches, players and fans may see a lot of Adams the next couple of years anyway.

Coccimiglio said that 6-foot-7 215-pound Adams is going to visit the University of Hawaii this weekend...

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