The world of WAC hoops on Saturday -- Utah State edition

Former Utah State big Gary Wilkinson is looking for a new team and the line should be forming as this is being typed.

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Tony Jones reports on the improvement demonstrated by USU commit Jalen Moore.

Plus some tweets:

Moore is playing so much harder than he used to play...has the look of a potential four year starter for Utah state

Utah pump n run coach as well as SLCC coach Todd Phillips paid usu small forward commit the ultimate complement: "he has NBA potential" 

This is why Stew Morrill's program is ahead of everyone else's -- who else get commitments from such prospects so early, especially in-state ones?

Tuesday's digest

It's too bad some WAC team didn't sign a player with the surname Ruby yesterday.

USU Athletics profiles/interviews Gary Wilkinson.

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2014 6-foot-5 guard Jake Toolson already has an offer from Utah State (as well as others), as Frank Woodford/The Recruit Scoop reports on the Arizona high schooler (a Rivals sub is required).

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All sorts of recruiting changes are soon to be happening -- go here.

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At Silver & Blue Sports, basketball takes six spots in the Top 10 Wolf Pack Moments in 2011-12.

Wednesday's WAC basketball wrap

Evan Daniels has the news that 6-foot-7 IMG forward David Andoh has given the green light to San Jose State University.

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About halfway down Michael Brown's article is a sort of update on the status of Gary Wilkinson and the New Zealand Breakers.

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Add in-state 6-foot-10 Gilbert Talbot to Coach Mike White's recruiting class plus 6-10 Oklahoman Sean Young as a walk-on, the latter thanks to rebelboi @ the Bulldog Barks & Bytes MB.

Here's Gilbert's beRecruited.com profile.

Here's a photo:

Here's Young's recruiting profile plus a photo:

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Teddy Feinberg serves up an interview with New Mexico State University President Barbara Couture.

Thursday's WAC hoops collection

Jason Groves has the news about a pair shooters launching into Las Cruces.

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Two championships in a row and Gary Wilkinson might not be back in New Zealand. Here's another article covering that territory.

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From a Gilbert Muako tweet: "Weber St, Seattle & UC Riverside offered '13 G Manroop Clair of @DRIVEBasketball expect more to come. Kid is talented"

He's a 6-foot-1 backcourter. Here's a late July 2011 article.


Here's videotape from last summer:

Gary Wilkinson's team in New Zealand

Here's an interesting article on former Utah State center Gary Wilkinson's squad in New Zealand, one on the verge of winning another league title. The owner has a pronounced policy on who he signs.

Friday and the WAC basketball galaxy

More accolades (PTW thinks) for the game night atmosphere in Logan:

"Majerus went on to say (the Spectrum) is like the Oakland Coliseum without the guns and knives."

It's from Rhett Wilkinson's article on USU in the Standard-Examiner.

Seattle Pacific topped Arizona last night so it's time for a Modou Niang update: in 13 minutes of play, the Utah State transfer went scoreless but did grab four rebounds.

Ex-Aggie big Gary Wilkinson receives more press in New Zealand.

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Dario Hunt responds to his Five Questions.

Chris Murray looks at the NBA draft rankings of Dario Hunt and Olek Czyz, plus much more.

Chris writes about the effect of the NCAA legislation passed today on Wolf Pack athletics.

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Dayton Morinaga covers another Rainbow Warrior scrimmage, this one worked by regular officials.

Thursday's wide world of WAC basketball happenings

We're amazed anything is left after posting 5-6 separate entries yesterday afternoon.

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Gary Wilkinson receives some major props from a new New Zealand Breaker teammate:

"[Daryl] Corletto believes centre Alex Pledger will step up this year and tips Gary Wilkinson might lead the league in scoring"

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Tony Jones reports that USU's Antonio Bumpus isn't 100% -- that could be a problem as Coach Stew Morrill is replacing four starters, plus Brian Green.

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Alex Kline/The Recruit Scoop tweets that Utah State (among others) is showing interest in a 2013 SoCal power forward.

Here's a video on the young man, who appears ambidextrous.

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Dan Hinxman writes about former Nevada stalwart Nick Fazekas, who is adding Hungarian citizenship to his basketball portfolio.

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Jason Groves tackles (sorry for the mixed sport metaphor) the WAC juniors in another very interesting read.

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2013 Arizona prep big Torren Jones has an offer from San Jose State University:

"Jones is a 6'8" forward who has the athletic ability to play in an up-tempo system and run the floor, and when the effort's there he's a tough player to keep in check. The schools that have shown the most interest are Colorado and San Jose State (offers), Arizona State, Auburn, Penn, Oregon State and Washington. But the five schools he'd like to receive offers from are Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA and USC."

A brief Sunday roundup of WAC basketball items

Gary Wilkinson keeps doing it for his New Zealand squad.

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The WAC so far is breaking a trend -- the latter being junior college transfers signing late rather than in November so that they can know who else will be on the roster and thus their competition for immediate PT:

IDAHO

* Tim Johnson, guard, LA Trade Tech

LOUISIANA TECH

* Demetrius Moore, forward, Northwest Florida State College

UTAH STATE

* Sean Harris, forward, Yuba College

NEVADA

* Rafael Carter, forward, Diablo Valley College

* Marqueze Coleman, guard, CA HS

Thus far, only Coleman is out of the high school ranks.

Sunday's heavenly WAC hoops chronicle

Gary Wilkinson is back on the court in New Zealand and picking up where he left off.

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Texas prep frontcourter Holt Harmon has given a verbal to Cornell and cancelled his other trips, one of which was to be Logan.

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Dayton Morinaga again goes multi media on open gym Rainbow Warriors style

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Matt Christensen at the Aggie Fanatics site looks at the USU starting five in 2015.

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Ryan Gorcey reports (a Rivals sub is required) that CA high schooler Arik Armstead is still mentioning Nevada among his top suitors. PTW finds it difficult to believe that some of those major football powers in Armstead's list are ultimately going to buy in to him playing both sports in college. Plus, he's surprisingly still listing Miami which may not even have a gridiron program a couple of years hence.

Friday's WAC basketball compendium

Chris Murray offers up -- to mix sports metaphors -- a doubleheader: someone new has arrived in Reno, someone old is still involved with hoops.

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Gary Wilkinson, coming off an Australian National Basketball League championship, says that a repeat will be tougher and details the keys in doing so.

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Brian McInnis is back blogging and has some important news about the UH schedule.

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From the New England Recruiting Report folks:

"Today marks the beginning of the NCAA contact period, meaning division I college coaches are permitted to conduct “in-person, off-campus evaluations and contacts.” 

Essentially, that means coaches are permitted to attend school workouts and meet with prospects and their families for in-home visits..."

Gary Wilkinson re-ups

No, don't even go there -- further eligibility hasn't been discovered for Gary Wilkinson at USU. It's that he has signed a new contract with his New Zealand club, one that recently lost top scorer Kirk Penney.

Thursday's a.m. WAC-aroni

Sam Wasson/Bleed Crimson has a New Mexico State recruiting note up today as well as the news of another coaching change and a well known name as a possible replacement.

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Dayton Morinaga checks in with a summer league update -- landing Hauns Brereton is looking more and more prominent for UH as time goes on.

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Chris Murray has news on Luke Babbitt's financial future.

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Louisiana Tech signee Raheem Appleby left a mighty mark on a state all-star basketball game.

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The USU Fans site has the latest on former Aggie Gary Wilkinson.

Friday's WAC basketball rundown

Don't fret for Greg Smith or Adrian Oliver as it's actually better to be a free agent than a second-rounder. Time to set the ego aside.

Speaking of the former, Daniel Lyght spent the draft evening at Smith's home.

Contrary to what Joe Abunassar said yesterday in another of Lyght's features on Smith, "energy guy" and "high energy" are not descriptions associated with Smith but they can be.

The real work begins now.

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Matt Sonnenberg has gone legit (not that he ever wasn't in our minds) as a member of the Utah State Athletic Media Relations staff and offers a Gary Wilkinson Q-and-A

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It's time for UH basketball fans to step up (actually, open their wallets) in order to send Dayton Morinaga to Asia this summer with the Rainbow Warrior basketball team. PTW predicts this will happen as generosity is big for Hawaii athletics in the islands and the outcome of Gib Arnold's initial season plus this season's recruiting class has provided the necessary momentum.

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Neal Henderson is back with another edition of "The Howl" and about 52 minutes of it related to Wolf Pack hoops. Enjoy.