Wednesday's WAC-itude

Nevada Assistant Coach Dennis Gates has moved on to Tallahassee as A.W. Prince and Chris Murray report.

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Per Daniel Lyght, The hiring of Rodney Terry gets a thumbs up from Yahoo's Jason King.

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Josh Wright covers the Pacific/Steffan Johnson/Idaho situation

Travis Mason-Bushman features Steffan Johnson

It's going to be extremely difficult for any other WAC team to offer a backcourt better than the pair of Mac Hopson and Steffan Johnson up in Moscow. As usual, Travis Mason-Bushman is on that very subject and offers an interview with Johnson at Vandal Nation:

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Vandal Spotlight: Steffan Johnson
Travis Mason-Bushman
July 29, 2009

In the 2007-08 season, Steffan Johnson lit up the courts of the Big West Conference as the Pacific Tigers’ star point guard. He earned First Team All-Big West honors, averaging 14.5 points, 4.9 assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 46.2% from the floor and a solid 41% from downtown. Last year, he ran into some troubles at Pacific and transferred to Idaho to join Coach Don Verlin’s rebuilding program. Teaming with First Team All-WAC point guard Mac Hopson, Johnson could give the Vandals the most feared backcourt duo in the conference.

Vandal Nation: How’d you get your start in hoops?

Steffan Johnson: It was early. I started when I was two years old, thanks to my dad. He taught me the game and I was hooked right from the start...

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