Tuesday's WAC basketball roundup

Sam Wasson writes about the Aggie Sunday loss to UTEP.

Jason Groves does also, looking at some of the on-court lapses in the contest plus in earlier matchups.

Teddy Feinberg serves up a commentary on the Aggies and the game.

Anthony Esparza has started up a New Mexico State blog -- bookmark it.

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Chris Murray identifies a major factor in the Wolf Pack rise this season.

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Jeff Portnoy's latest is in praise of Miah

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Matt Sonnenberg had PTW at Pre-Med.

Dayton Morinaga reminisces

Dayton Morinaga -- Mr. Hawaii basketball for the Honolulu Advertiser -- offers a farewell column featuring his memories associated with UH hoops. To the best of our knowledge, Dayton isn't transferring over to the Star-Advertiser so we wish him all the best and thank him for his coverage (of which we have greatly partaken of since our inception).

Go here.

Sunday's WAC news and notes

Dayton Morinaga has a lengthy piece today about Gib Arnold's recruiting class. It is an impressive feat and one accomplished in a very short time. What will be fascinating is how well it goes with the blending of all these players, plus the returnees. Josten Thomas should be getting the most touches next season which should keep him satisfied but he is going to have to keep earning such an offensive ranking. Trevor Wiseman's temper will be another factor to monitor because all freshman are going to bump into barriers and hurdles.

We (generally) get all excited over recruiting classes and rightly so -- they provide hope and are the future. But nowadays, it seems at least a third of recruits end up at another address before the completion of eligibility so which players in each WAC team's recruiting class are candidates to fall into this category?

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I guess we woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning but we feel compelled to add our two cents on the possibility of Memphis' Roburt Sallie heading to a WAC team as Fresno State fans are speculating.

There are so many factors at play here:

1) Which school still has a scholarship available?

2) Which WAC coach is willing to wait until mid-to-late summer to see if Sallie is eligible and available?

3) Sallie is more a complementary type player and not a game changer

4) With but one season to play and obviously a desire to impress foreign and domestic scouts, what are the odds that Sallie will accept a role as the say the third option on offense?

Ultimately, we believe Sallie will try his hand overseas. Another college season just won't add much to what he is trying to accomplish.