Friday's WAC hoops wrapup

Ryan James tweeted: "Prior Lake C Carson Shanks is taking his official visit to Utah State this weekend. Carson committed there last year"

Shanks is a 7-footer out of Minnesota.

Here's a January 30, 2012 interview.

USUStats has word on two other visitors coming to Logan.

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Coast2Coast Hoops tweeted: "UT-Arlington is now expressing interest in 2013 Belton (TX) shooting guard Thomas Barnes"

He's 6-foot-1, 165 pounds and listed as a combo guard.

In mid-July, it was tweeted that Louisiana Tech was evaluating him.

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Former New Mexico State backcourter Christian Kabongo is now at Morgan State, having departed from Southern Mississippi (it will take a bit of scrolling down).

Thursday's WAC hoops notes and link collection

LA TECH athletics makes it official on Chris Anderson, an athletic talent who should thrive in Coach Mike White's fast-paced system.

Philip Pongratz has tweeted: "Congrats to @LATechHoops Brandon Gibson and Romario Souza for graduating today and recently walk across the stage "

Gibson redshirted his second year due to injury and has one season of remaining eligibility. Souza earned his degree in two seasons, a pretty impressive feat nowadays.

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Caught this item in the prep notebook of Tony Ciniglio and Dave Thorpe on 6-foot-2 senior SoCal guard Kajon Mack: "Mack was the last to sign. He was choosing between Tulane and New Mexico State..."  

Does Coach Menzies still have a schollie available or was this earlier interest? 

Catch some nice Aggies hoops photos here. 

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Teddy Feinberg writes that New Mexico wants its brethren in the Mountain West Conference but is finding little support. 

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Fallout because of the 'I don't know who my bride is going to be at the wedding' conference realignment mess, from Andy Katz: "Boise State is having a difficult time finishing its nonconference schedule because the Broncos still don’t know what league they will be in 2013-14. The Big West has left the door open for Boise State to seek an invitation. Boise State is committed to the Big East in football so the MWC seems out. The only other option is to continue with the plan of going to the crumbling WAC. Boise State coach Leon Rice doesn’t know, though, if he can schedule Big West or WAC teams in nonconference games. He’d love to schedule MWC teams, but isn’t 100 percent sure the Broncos are out so he’s hesitating. Rice said long-term scheduling is impossible at this point."

Wednesday's WAC basketball roundup

Nevada receives a mention in the recruitment of 2013 SoCal backcourter Jordan Matthews, per Josh Paunil.

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MinerRush has tweeted this: "Former UTEP G @Perez23 has narrowed his potential schools to Penn St., Nevada, and Purdue"

Mike Perez is a shooting guard out of Arizona with very good athletic ability and solid shooting skills.


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This Jason Groves tweet has some Aggie fans hyperventilating. Credit to realaggie at the AggieAlert MB for bringing this to attention.

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Marcus Thompson writes about Big Wen and the Golden State Warriors.

Long term New Mexico State recruiting targets

For those New Mexico State fans with long memories, here's some news about down-the-road recruiting targets via Tom Krosschell: "Minnesota Pump N Run's 2014 PG Jordan Dembley and 2014 SF Reid Travis and 2015 PG Jarvis Johnson have been offered by New Mexico State"

This is confusing

In Alex Kline's report on Sim Bhullar heading to New Mexico State, this perplexing quote appears:

“The school system is different in Canada compared to America,” stated Bhullar on Tuesday night. “I would not have been able to qualify because my grades from Canada were messed up.”

The NCAA doesn't have different standards for Ohio (Xavier) than New Mexico so was it an Xavier standard that forced Bhullar to look elsewhere?

PTW senses that Jason Groves will be on this one, digging for an explanation.