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Your Friday p.m. WAC edition

Chris Murray offers a preview of Nevada's Saturday night matchup in Las Cruces against New Mexico State. Chris also serves up four keys to the contest and a prediction. 

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Brian McInnis writes about Hawaii's projected matchups in the WAC tourney. The key line: If UH wins tomorrow, it will play Fresno again in the 5-8 matchup. If UH loses, it could be 5 or 6 and play either Fresno or San Jose State."

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Jeff Portnoy covers similar territory. 

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Jason Groves goes over the various ifs, ands and buts of the regular season finish and the subsequent tourney seeding implications for all the WAC teams.

Tonight's scores so far

Boise State beat host Idaho 70-67 tonight. Nick Jezierny tweeted the game.

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Host Utah State leads New Mexico State 35-23 at the half. It's now 45-29 with 11:48 left.

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Nevada leads LT 57-49 with 6:33 remaining. Now at the 3:22 mark, it's 60-56 W9olf Pack.

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Brian McInnis is tweeting the UH - SJSU game which just started.

More from Brian McInnis

On his Court Sense blog, Brian McInnis keeps us up-to-date on UH hoops and also offers a Q-and-A with Douglas Kurtz -- go here.

A Brian McInnis blog

Thanks to Al, we came across a UH basketball blog started by Brian McInnis of the Star Advertiser -- do bookmark it.

Your Wednesday WAC links

Another early road test
Shawn Harrison
Herald Journal
November 18, 2009

Playing in-state rivals is never easy.

Try playing back-to-back road games against in-state rivals to open the season. That’s exactly what Utah State is doing for the first time under head coach Stew Morrill. The Aggies (1-0) take on Utah (0-1) tonight at the Huntsman Center. Tip-off is set for 6.

“It’s kind of weird to have two in-state games this early and both on the road,” Morrill said. “It’s a little odd, but we will get ready and go play.”

Back in 2007, the Aggies opened the season with two straight in-state foes in Southern Utah and Weber State, but one of those tilts was in Logan. USU opened the 2009-10 season last Friday with a 66-60 win at Weber State. Meanwhile, the Utes were dropping their opener at home, 94-87, to Idaho...

Go here for the remainder.

Hey, is the a Super Bowl contest for the Aggies too? Normally, we don't get this worked up but hey, we're counting on Stew Morrill's team to add insult to injury to the Utes and the Mountain West Conference. For the background on this paragraph, go here.

Harrison also has an article on Stew Morrill's 2010-2011 class.

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Jared Eborn also has a piece onUtah State's trio of basketball signees:

At long last, USU's fall basketball recruits
Jared Eborn
Deseret News |
November 17, 2009

It took a while, but Stew Morrill's fall recruiting class has finally been released by Utah State.

As expected, Bingham High's Ben Clifford, Midland College (Texas) point guard Brockeith Pane and Los Alamitos (Calif.) combo guard James Walker put their signatures on paper after giving verbal committments a while back...

Go here for the remainder.

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Teddy Feinberg/Las Cruces Sun-News offers his take on last night's New Mexico State - New Mexico game.

Jason Groves/Las Cruces Sun-News provides his reaction in his blog entry here.

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Sam Wasson/BleedCrimson.net has his Aggie-Lobo game summary. We like the contest being called the Rio Grande Rivalry.

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Tony Jones/Salt Lake City Tribune says here are the keys to the Ute kingdom for the Aggies.

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Dayton Morinaga/Honolulu Advertiser writes quite the catchy opening in his article on UH's loss to Northern Colorado.

Brian McInnis does the same with his game story.

A few more Monday links

Travis Mason-Bushman/Vandal Nation has a great photo today along with a story about the reaction to Utah Coach Jim Boylen's unfiltered arrogance. Take it from us, this isn't the first time Boylen has lifted his leg and aimed towards the WAC.

Jason Groves/Las Cruces Sun-News offers a retrospective on the Aggie loss to St. Mary's.

Nick Jezierny has a full-length report on Boise's win over North Dakota. Daequon Montreal playing the point on D? That's imposing.

Hawaii is in the championship game per Dayton Morinaga here and Brian McInnis here.