Sunday's WAC basketball world

Brian McInnis serves up a UH basketball recruiting update.

Rainbow Warrior hoops and football related, it's truly amazing what Miah Ostrowski accomplished this sports year. Stephen Tsai reports that the young man is already a starter in spring practice at the slotback position and this soon after coming in during the basketball season and earning the job at the point. The point, not shooting guard or wing but running Gib Arnold's offense.

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Daniel Lyght reports that Rodney Terry's mantra for his players will be 'D up' -- that or else.

Marek Warszawski covers questions about Rodney Terry's hire. PTW will take this exception: Coach Reggie got an interview at UNLV because of his connection and that of Jerry Tarkanian's to Vegas basketball. It's not like a number of ADs have him on any short list. Plus, Ernie Kent wasn't successful enough in order to remain at Oregon (with all the funding available there) so why should it be deemed he would/could win in Fresno? Mike Dunlap is the most intriguing of this trio but it's beginning to seem that like he going to be a career assistant, albeit a highly respected one. Each search is simply an apples and oranges matter.

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Joey Hislop notes that 6-foot-9 Utah State commit Casey Oliverson has receive yet another honor: 2011 Herald Journal All-Valley Player of the Year.

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Joe Nocera, who usually covers economic matters for the New York Times, doesn't understand the logic -- or lack thereof -- displayed by the NCAA.

We don't mean to be glib but Joe has plenty of knowledge and experience in the real world -- it's he who has the gold, rules.

A Casey Oliverson feature

The Salt Lake Tribune's Bill Oram has a feature article today on 6-foot-8 Casey Oliverson who is two seasons (counting this one) and an LDS mission away from taking to the court in The Spectrum.

A correction

Per thelastdogman, Marcel Davis and Casey Oliverson are 2012 Utah State verbals, not 2011 as we typed earlier.

Friday and WAC hoops

Shawn Harrison has more on Casey Oliverson's USU commitment -- including the plan that he won't be in Logan until four years from now.

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Expansion, conference realignment -- call it whatever you will. Chris Murray offers his prioritized bucket list that schools must demonstrate in order to be an attractive candidate for being wooed elsewhere.

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Fresno State athletics provides a feature on academics and Associate Head Coach Jeff Reinert.

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CougarMVP at the Scout (BarkBoard) Save Mart Center basketball message board posts that Mychal Ladd has returned to his home state and will play at Washington State.

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Before we post them elsewhere, here's a couple of random thoughts on the college sports news of late:

* So Colorado, forfeiting scholarships in basketball and football due to a unacceptable APR, receives an invite to the PAC-10. Doing our Jon Lovitz/Tommy Flanagan best: yeah, yeah, that's the ticket for other schools to emulate.

* This just in: the NCAA says Tim Floyd is cool but has two provisos -- he can no longer drink OJ for breakfast and inspections of his refrigerator must yield no presence of any Mayo.

Thursday night WAC links

Jonathan Givony (of Draft Express) has a feature on five draft sleepers at Sports Illustrated and Paul George is included. We're not so sure anyone is snoozing on Mr. George any longer. Go here and scroll down.

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Casey Oliverson is apparently the one to back when the Oliverson family (think Shawn of Lousiana Tech) goes against each other on the backyard court. Tony Jones/Aggieville provides a feature.

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It seems a bit odd but we'll never know the full equations that landed former USF guard Kwame Vaughn, former Cal backcourter D.J. Seeley and former Cal frontcourter Omondi Amoke at Cal State Fullerton. The Orange County school is known as Transfer U, with but one high school recruit on the Titan roster. Amoke had a legal problem that spurred his departure. Seeley had been mentioned as a possibility on various WAC basketball message boards but that didn't happen.

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Chris Murray has a bunch of new articles so start clicking here (subtitled See You In September), here (Olek Czyz To Polka Across Europe) and here (a hoops tour of China that, who knows, may yield a prospect or two).