Tuesday's WAC report

Shawn Harrison and Tony Jones write about USU tripping to St. Mary's as part of the BracketBuster series.

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Jason Groves tells readers Hamidu is back -- not good news to WAC foes. Plus, Jason serves up a three minute Wendell McKines video interview.

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Chris Murray writes about UC Irvine, the Wolf Pack BB opponent and offers some interesting video on the Anteater coach (who would be a first-round pick in any pick-up game).

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Nick Jezierny has the details on Boise State drawing UC Santa Barbara, one of the top teams in the Big West Conference. It's not Hawaii but the beach is right next to the Gaucho campus.

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Dayton Morinaga has all means of media on Hawaii's upcoming roadie to the Gem State, plus a bit on UC Davis, UH's BB host and foe. Brian McInnis provides a lengthy feature about on the Aggies of Davis, noting that it's a 'home' game of sorts for Hiram Thompson. Ferd Lewis notes the increased attendance and accompanying rising decibel level at Rainbow Warrior basketball games.

Wednesday's WAC Report

Shawn Harrison writes about the uptick in the play of the Aggies, especially that of Brockeith Pane. Forget Newcomer honors, Pane may soon be pushing for an All-WAC selection.

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ESPN2 will air the Idaho - Nevada game tonight and Nick Jezierny offers an article about the #1 asset for the Vandals. he also includes information about the looming BSU -USU battle of the unbeatens.

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Daniel Lyght blogs about a number of WAC teams.

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Jason Groves has posted another "Trending..." column, the type of which we really enjoy reading. He also serves up a piece on Tshilidzi Nephawe who, if he keeps expanding his contributions, might be Wally Pipping Hamidu Rahman.

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Chris Murray quotes Coach David Carter as Nevada not having any freshman on the roster at this point in play.

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The phrase "go big or go home" seems applicable to UH basketball as Brian McInnis explains.

Dayton Morinaga explores the possibility of a road to recovery for the Rainbow Warrior basketball squad.

Wednesday's WAC world

The non-conference records, good, medium and bad, mean nothing now as the real thing begins tonight.

Louisiana Tech is at Boise State. Ethan Conley offers a feature on DeAndre Brown and Olu Ashaolu acting as role models for the younger Bulldogs.

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Hawaii leaves the islands to face league behemoth Utah State -- Dayton Morinaga has a report plus video.

Brian McInnis offers something similar but also serves up a tasty WAC team-by-team preview/review. Brian also wrote a Court Sense blog entry with interesting quotes from Stew Morrill.

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Chris Murray takes a look at each member of the Wolf Pack roster in a very good read.

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Sam Wasson at Bleed Crimson provides his weekly interview with Marvin Menzies.

Jason Groves previews the New Mexico State matchup with and at Idaho and wrote a commentary plus, who knows what this means but Troy Gillenwater, Hamidu Rahman and Wendell McKines tripped to Moscow.

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Nick Jezierny looks at the WAC as a whole and see a hole, especially compared to last season.Plus, the Idaho Statesman encapsulizes each WAC team plus what the BSU players will miss the most and least about the other WAC destinations.

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Marek Warszawski sees a backcourt offensive juggernaut with SJSU playing tonight in Fresno. Jeff Davis blogs about the Red Wave trickling into the Save Mart Center.

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Kraig Williams gives some pub to Tai Wesley, Shawn Harrison writes about the WAC this season and also Hawaii arriving at The Spectrum tonight while Tony Jones calls USU the best team in a lesser (from the 2009-2010 edition) WAC. The Standard-Examiner expects the crowd to be smaller tonight since the Aggie students are on break.

Tuesday's p.m. edition

Louisiana Tech rumbled past Houston Baptist 80-57 tonight. It was 43-35 after the first 20 minutes. Olu Ashaolu put up a 21/13 double-double. It's game on versus the Cape Canaveral Calvinists next...just kidding for the uber literal.

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Playing off of the above, Chris Murray writes about the overall league ranking at this point -- it isn't pretty. Some opportunity for improvement awaits but each game will have the WAC team as an underdog.

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Jason Groves blogs about Wendell McKines' will-he-or-won't-he status, plus includes a note on Hamidu Rahman.

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Per Steve Cleveland on his radio show, sophomore Jerry Brown will redshirt this season.

WAC Wednesday

Brian McInnis has more on point Anthony Salter's foot injury.

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La'Shard Anderson will miss BSU's opener because of his "Animal House" episode this summer -- so reports Nick Jezierny.

Nick also introduces Isaac Oeltjen to Bronco fans. 

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Hamidu Rahman receives some just recognition in Jason Groves' feature today.

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Meet freshman frontcourter Kevin Panzer courtesy of Nevada athletics.

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Armon Johnson aided the Trailblazers' win last night -- Chris Murray has the details.

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Tony Jones lays out why there was confusion over DeShawn Stephens' situation -- but, again, PTW has confirmed it with someone who would know that Stephens is going to San Diego State.

Jason Groves stays home with pick #6

Jason Groves didn't have to look far for his sixth selection in the Top 10 WAC talents -- go here.

This has to mean Coach Marvin Menzies will have three players in the rankings. So does this translate into New Mexico State being atop the WAC in pre-season predictions?

More Thursday WAC linkeroos

Marvin Menzies' weekly interview is brought to you here by Sam Wasson.

Jason Groves offers a feature here on the often overlooked Hamidu Rahman, who is definitely drawing more defensive attention this season.

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Travis Mason-Bushman's weekly WAC power rankings are available here.

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You have to love the young ballers who have yet to turn robotic in their dealings with the press. Daniel Lyght has a preview here of the Fresno State - New Mexico State matchup with a great quote from Jahmar Young. You thankfully don't get the inert "we play one game at a time" or "our opponent is very, very good and we'll be lucky to win" from Young. No, we are not going to give away what Young said -- hit the link.

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Nick Jezierny has a feature on possible Bronco enochlophobia here. We're going with plain ol' coincidence.

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Brian McInnis has a report on Jeremy Lay's season-ending injury here -- of course, this has to be happening at UH.

Hamidu Rahman is the WAC POW

Per Jason Erickson, the WAC Media Relations major domo, New Mexico State's Hamidu Rahman is the latest WAC Player of the Week:

"New Mexico State's Hamidu Rahman has been named the Verizon Wireless Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Jan. 25-31. The honor marks the first career WAC Player of the Week award for Rahman.

Rahman, a sophomore center from Somerset, N.J. (American Christian), led New Mexico State to a 91-77 road victory at Louisiana Tech, handing the Bulldogs their first home loss of the season. Rahman tied his career high with 22 points in the win. Rahman shot a career-best with 10 made field goals and 15 attempts, and was a perfect 2-of-2 from the charity stripe. He also pulled down a team-high 12 rebounds with one block. The performance marks the second time that Rahman has surpassed the 20-point plateau in his career.

Other nominees:

- Boise State senior guard Anthony Thomas
- Fresno State freshman guard/forward Jerry Brown
- Idaho sophomore forward Luiz Toledo
- Louisiana Tech senior forward Magnum Rolle
- Utah State junior forward Nate Bendall"

Additional Tuesday WAC links

Jahmar Young receives some major love from the Mid Majority folks here.

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With a top o' the hat to Sam Wasson at BleedCrimson.net, here's a feature on Hamidu Rahman.

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Jeff Goodman gives a national salute to the 2009-2010 Louisiana Tech squad here.