Friday's WAC hoops compilation

Denver athletics takes a look at conference opponent Louisiana Tech.

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RioGrandeAg posted an update link about Wendell McKines at the AggieAlert MB.

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Just asking: what happens to the triangle offense of teams when the plane touches down in Bermuda for a summer trip?

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Love this pre-season tweet from Dave Telep: "Cannibal of the year award goes to a Big East assistant who just asked me if I knew of any transfers. It's only been a week!"

Tuesday's WAC items

Jason Groves is all over the forcing of the WAC's hand to bid adieu to football.

Teddy Feinberg checks in with a New Mexico State assessment.

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George Pfeifer, the former Idaho head coach, is leaving Montana State. Maybe Gonzaga will have a future opening as the names of Ray Giacoletti and Donny Daniels pop up every now and then for other positions.

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According to Blue Zertuche (a Rivals sub is required), Denver has been in touch with 6-foot-8 Texas prep frontcourter Michael Hoffman.

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Former So Cal prep backcourter Cezar Guerrero is departing Oklahoma State and Fresno State is among the transfer possibilities. This is being listed because 1) the Bulldogs would not be in play without Mountain West Conference affiliation and 2) Rodney Terry's mojo. No WAC possibilities.

UC irvine is also mentioned -- interesting. Would Guerrero go with San Diego State or Long Beach State? (also Big West Conference but winning programs who get to the Big Dance)

Sunday and the WAC basketball universe

Blue Zertuche (a Rivals sub is required) writes that UT San Antonio recruiting target Michael Grant, a 6-foot-4 Lone Star State prep wing, has decided to attend Abilene Christian.

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Jason Groves checks in with a very interesting story involving the Denver Pioneers. As PTW has noted, Coach Joe Scott's squad lacks size and experience at the one and two spots, plus co-leading scorer and outside sharpshooter Brian Stafford has graduated. Call Denver the most stylized team in the new WAC and now someone is chiming in as also the second best.

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Check out Brian Murphy tweeting away:

WAC and Big Sky are back in discussions about alliance to keep WAC alive & keep 2 NCAA bids, according to Idaho officials.

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Will have much, much more about Idaho's situation in Sunday's @IdahoStatesman

Here's Murphy's Sunday column.

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At the USU Fans Stew's Spectrum MB, Spectrum Magic has the destination for Dalton Nixon, an Aggie 2014 target but someone with certain bloodlines which made it impossible to overcome.

Thursday's WAC hoops roundup

Inside Roadrunner Sports reports that 2013 Texas prep backcourter Michael Williams has checked out Texas San Antonio as one candidate for his basketball future.

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Matt Sonnenberg is the source that keeps on giving and that's going to last a while as he will begin his countdown of the Top 20 Players of the Stew Morrill Era. Here's one vote for Nate Harris to make the cut. Nobody maximized his talent to the extent that Harris did, nobody.

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Irv Moss reports that going non-football is being looked at by the WAC and that a decision is imminent.

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David Ramsey reports that Denver Coach Joe Scott has Nate Engresser on his mind for the one opening in the Pioneer starting lineup.

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From Blue Zertuche/Texas Hoops (a Rivals sub is required), "(6-foot-8 Dustin) Thomas is currently getting interest and offers from Kansas State (offer), Texas, Nebraska, Lehigh, UT-Arlington (offer), Colorado State (offer), Arkansas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State."

Sunday morning's WAC connections

Joey Natale tweeted: "'14 Utah Pump N Run F Dalton Nixon heard from Stanford, Creighton, BYU, Utah, San Francisco, Utah St, Portland & Harvard since last night"

Here's Bill Oram and Kyle Goon on Utah State and Nixon back in April.  

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Eric Hampford writes about 2013 Land of Enchantment prospect John Dawson who has been offered by New Mexico State and Denver among others. He's a 6-foot-4 backcourter. 

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Dayton Morinaga has the latest on play in the Hawaii Summer league as the Rainbow Warriors have Jace Tavita and Charles Standhardinger participating.

Friday and the return of actual WAC hoops news

The Chris Udofia Bandwagon was started yesterday and now has another member.

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Since PTW is writing about Basketball Prospectus, it would be remiss not to mention that Preston Medlin was at the #100 spot. These rankings are based on last year's performances.

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USA Basketball has 22 players in camp and one of them is Fresno State signee Robert Upshaw. The Draft Express folks are predicting he makes the team (12 man roster) and have written this: "Inside the paint, there is no shortage of size, girth, length and athleticism, but we haven't seen one big man emerge as a reliable back to the basket presence as of yet. Robert Upshaw has tried to fill that role at times, and has had some success at times, while the likes of Robert Carter and Shaq Goodwin have preferred to float to the perimeter and shoot jumpers instead."

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Alex Kline/The Recruit Scoop has the latest on 6-foot-3 shooting guard Mike Perez: "Nevada had UTEP transfer Michael Perez on campus today, he announced"

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Jason Groves has been a-tweetin':

"McKinley Boston said the school and head hoops coach Marvin Menzies are still in contract talks"

Gotta nail him down -- bball is the best thing NMSU has going 

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"2012 C Norvel Pelle will take his next official visit to DePaul per @RunninRams3, Pelle had a "really good" visit to NMSU last weekend"

Has a recruit ever come back and said (not thought): "No way in hell I'm ever going back there." Pelle would be a great get even if he likely can't play next season. MM is working it.

Saturday's WAC basketball compilation

A recent Joe Davidson tweet: "SacBee hoops Player of Year D'Erryl Williams of Sheldon picks up offers from LMU and Fresno State. Superb leader, skills, toughness"

He's a 6-foot-4 2013 prospect and a 4.0 student with excellent dribble-drive to the hoop talent.


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Dayton Morinaga has video with Shaq Stokes, all about the latter's departure.


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Looking way ahead ...


A recent Alex Kline/The Recruit Scoop tweet: "2014 Oregon D1 Ambassadors (OR) trio Ryan Shearmire, Yadie Dunmore & Ty Cleland are taking an unofficial visit to Denver"

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Chris Gabel has the latest on a Reno prepster with seven offers, going on 70.


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A Seattle assistant coach is departing for another position.