Saturday's WAC report

The collective groans you just heard is from the various fan bases hoping to land BYU's Brandon Davies who, according to this Steve Laum article, is working towards being back on the Cougar team next season.

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Despite some chatter indicating some movement afoot, Beehive State prep frontcouter David Collete has remained steadfast and officially aligned with Utah State hoops. Go here for the details.

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Rachel Roberts reports on 6-foot-5 junior college freshman Mitch Bruneel's USU LOI signing.

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Jason Groves has the scoop on an immediately eligible D-1 point guard transfer taking in the sights and sounds of Las Cruces this weekend.

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Chris Murray offers a link to a Toronto newspaper article that has the news about Olu Ashaolu declaring, minus an agent, for the NBA draft. He'll either be in college or overseas next season.

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Dayton Morinaga serves up multiple forms of media on the UH basketball banquet.

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George Hostetter has a fascinating article on the financials of Fresno State athletics -- one in which is certainly being duplicated at various other locations throughout the WAC and across the country.

Tuesday's WAC basketball links and notes

With a tip of the hat to Sam Wasson for alerting us, the Fresno Bee's George Hostetter checks in on the money side of Fresno State athletics and makes a pair of predictions on the future of Coach Steve Cleveland.


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Dayton Morinaga writes about the Rainbow Warriors roadtripping the final two games of the regular season and the WAC tourney. Two weeks away from home sounds like the NBA.

Jeff Portnoy has a News and Notes column up the whole triumphing over the sum of its parts, who will finish where, plus a good surprise in closing.

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Chris Murray offers an article detailing what Nevada is doing to turn around its approach to games.

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Sam Wasson analyzes the Aggies, and no, a couch was not involved.

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Nick Jezierny writes that seven players and five starting spots might require some of that new fangled math courtesy of Coach Leon Rice as Boise State is having its Senior Night Wednesday instead of Saturday.

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Tony Jones is impressed with Utah State recruit David Collette. Tony also details USU's interest in another in-state prospect.

Catch Stew Morrill's latest news conference here.

From Tony Jones on recruit David Collette

Here's an item from Tony Jones' Twitter account:

Murray High star David Collette tells Tribune's Bill Oram that he's visiting Utah State tomorrow....6-9 power forward with skills

Here is a July 2010 article on Collette.

It's a recruiting weekend

It's been pretty much a given but an article this weekend confirm that southern California frotncourter Damiene Cain is deciding among three schools: Boston College, San Diego State and Colorado.

Hawaii made a run at him and offered but Cain has decided to either head south, way back east or go Rocky Mountain high.

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MiniStew is reporting at the Utah State Scout basketball message board that one Josh Monroy, all 7-foot-2 of him, was in for a visit to Logan recently. He's a 2011 prospect and a likely redshirt candidate with whatever college coach and program he chooses. Mooney is out of South Dakota. We don't know what to make of his high school squad's 2-18 record last season but we are also unsure how many games Mooney played in 2009-2010..

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From seldomseensmith, per Jay Drew's Salt Lake City Tribune prep blog, USU is doing an in-home with 6-foot-8 in-stater David Collette. Go here.

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Per the Rivals Texas basketball site, San Jose State has received a verbal from 6-foot-7 Stephon Smith, a Lone Statr State basketballer doing a prep season at a school in New Jersey. Damon Sayles has an article here, (a Rivals sub is required).