Tuesday's WAC roll out

 Tony Jones comes through with a Steve Thornton update plus information about the USU schedule and also Jared Quayle's replacement -- the latter just may make such a framing passé.

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Chris Murray is back with a bunch of Nevada posts. Go here, here and here. The latter is penned by Dan Hinxman.

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New Mexico State has an impressive non-conference slate, maybe the best of the WAC teams -- go here to read the opponents per Jason Groves.

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So maybe (or maybe not) for BYU's basketball programs coming to the WAC. It's way too early but is it the Mountain West Conference being more in need of some super glue than the WAC?

Straight from Steve Thornton's father

Sometimes, a matter just doesn't seen right. The item about California prepster Steve Thornton trying to walk-on at Hawaii was just such an item. But heck, it appeared in a longtime local southern California newspaper.

So PTW dialed up Thornton yesterday, reached his father (a very nice man) and here's the deal: The younger Thornton is heading to Logan next week, period. He wants to and will be part of the USU basketball program. Hawaii is not a possibility and the elder Thornton wishes the newspaper had contacted him him before posting that UH was a new destination as he could have set them straight.

Our plan is to do a feature in the near future on Steve Thornton for the Rivals southern California basketball site and we'll make sure PTW readers have access to that.

Tony Jones has the scoop on a USU recruit visiting

Tony Jones has posted a blog about a Stoneridge Prep (southern California) player -- Steven Thornton -- visiting Logan this weekend. Go here for the article.

We're relying on our memory here (a dangerous avenue to travel) but we seem to recall talking to a southern California club team coach last year and Thornton's name popped up. The kid was described as an excellent athlete who needed to work on his jumper/shooting consistency.

Thornton was being coached at Stoneridge Prep by Derryck 'Tank' Thornton -- who we are presuming to be a father or brother but have no confirmation of such.

We used "was" because Kentucky Ink Recruiting had a Jim Tirey-penned February 23 post about Derryck Thornton being let go by the Stoneridge A.D.

Many thanks to PremierBall.com for the Steven Thornton photo.