Sunday, October 19, 2008

An overall look at this season's WAC

We're posting a Jason Groves article here because it has some quotes from a number of the league coaches and a good one from Aggie Jonathan Gibson:

A new era of WAC basketball set to tip off
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
10/18/2008


LAS CRUCES — It is a new era in the Western Athletic Conference.

All five of the All-WAC postseason first teamers from a year ago were seniors. Eight of the top 10 scorers from a year ago are gone. Only Louisiana Tech junior guard Kyle Gibson remains. Gibson was seventh in the league in scoring last year. Nevada's JaVale McGee was 10th, but he is now in the NBA. McGee was also the only underclassman among the top five rebounds and Boise State point guard Anthony Thomas is the only returning top assist men from last year since Jordan Brooks is no longer on Idaho's roster.

The youth movement is upon us.

"I think it's good for us," said New Mexico State head coach Marvin Menzies, who lost five seniors following his first season in Las Cruces. "We are one of the teams that had such a huge turnover. I'm happy that there are a lot of teams facing the same situation. I don't know how good it is for the league though. I think it's better to have a more consistent product year in and year out, but if the young teams do well in out of conference, we could still be a multi-bid league..."

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