Davis versus Hamilton

It's too bad Utah State's Marcel Davis wasn't named Aaron Burr (that would give him an historical edge), at least for purposes in this particular duel as it appears the best freshman newcomer honor is currently a two-player race between Davis and Alex Hamilton of Louisiana Tech.

In WAC play, the latter stands at 14.0 points alongside a 9/4 assists-to-turnover ratio. Hamilton is playing 24.7 minutes an outing and shooting 52%, 25% and 81% respectively. His rebounding is at 2.7 a contest and he is pilfering the ball once per game.

Davis is scoring 6.8 points and connecting at a 48% overall rate and 40% from long distance plus he is tops in the WAC in assists at 5.3 a contest plus 1.5 steals each time out. His assist-to-turnover ratio is 3.5 (21/6) and that also leads the WAC.

The Newcomer of the Year race

Was there anyone predicting that 6-foot-9 redshirt freshman Deshaun Sunderhaus would be averaging 10.4 and 6.7 rebounds per game at this point in the season? Add to that, the Georgian is shooting 47% in just under 25 minutes a contest.

But coming up on the shoulder for Newcomer of the Year is Utah State's frosh backcourter Marcel Davis, he with 21 points in 20 minutes versus Western Oregon and then 17 points in 28 minutes against Utah Valley in the last two Agge outings. Overall, Davis is averaging 5.3 points in 13 and a half minutes each time out, shooting 59% thus far.

Additionally, Texas State JC transfer Joel Wright currently sits 14.6 points and 6.3 boards per game so don't count him out.

Of course, there's Jarred Shaw in the lead with averages of 14.3 points, 10 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots each time out.

Wednesday's WAC-aroo

From the If-It-Has-To-Happen, Better-Today-Than-Two-Months-From-Now Department: USU's Marcel Davis has a mysterious ailment and, also per Tony Jones, is impressing mightily as a freshman point.

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UT San Antonio athletics officially announces the addition of three new talents to Coach Brooks Thompson's squad, one 'shipped, two walk-ons.

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Ryan James tweets: "Conor Voss grabbed an offer from Texas- Arlington today. They were recently up to watch him workout, Voss visits MIT this weekend"

Voss is a 6-foot-11 2013-er out of Minnesota.

Per Rivals, he also has an offer from Seattle. He just visited Columbia and has an upcoming trip to Davidson and both have extended offers.

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Per Josh Gershon: "2013 Tulare (Calif.) Union PF Keonta Vernon is hosting Northern Arizona and Wyoming on in-homes tonight"

The 6-foot-6, 210 Vernon also has an offer from Seattle. He projects as a three in college.

Saturday's WAC basketball universe

The USU Stats folks shines the spotlight on soon-to-be Aggie Marcel Davis.

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Chris Murray has a background article up on Wolf Pack athletic donations.

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Jason Groves takes a similar route as some of the natives in Las Cruces are restless.

Teddy Feinberg writes that if Mike Martin gets the job as president @ Colorado State, well, it could pay dividends for New Mexico State.

Saturday's WAC basketball report

Brad Winton offers a report on an Arizona junior college point catching the interest of Fresno State and Idaho, among many others. A trip to Moscow will be happening soon.

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Brian Smith speculates via Twitter on Utah State commit Marcel Davis here and here and here now that club basketball teammate Jordan Loveridge has announced for Utah. No smoke and certainly no fire -- Smith just raises the question.

Tony Jones with a Marcel Davis update

Tony Jones blogs an update in the ESPN rankings of Utah State point guard commit Marcel Davis.

The top ESPN prospect in the nation is Shabazz Muhammad. What's fascinating is PTW saw Muhammad play three games in the Las Vegas-based adidas tournament at the end of July. He earned his ranking in two of the contests but ankle/ligament ailments made him quite ordinary in the third. If a scout had seen but the latter game, then any national ranking would have been out of the question. The moral of this story: one game evaluations are dangerous and may be harmful to your employment in the recruiting field.