WAC has some wild geography . #NEWMEXICOST is on a nice roll. Their only conference loss is and they face Seattle tomorrow. They've beaten Illinois, UTEP, Colorado St , & New Mexico and lost to USC in OOC play. Utah Valley and Seattle are the most likely teams to upset them in the WACT which returns to the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas for the eighth year in a row. Utah Valley led by UVU #Manyang (14.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 1.0 APG) faces UTRGV on Feb 17.
Leading scorers
1. Dixon, Nick-UTRGV 20.6
2. Lofton, Zach-NMSU 20.0
3. Kavas, Matej-SU 16.1
Leading rebounder 12.4 rbg is Jemerrio Jones #NMSU
WAC standings
New Mex. St. 9-1 22-4
Utah Valley 7-3 18-8
Seattle 7-3 18-9
Grand Canyon 6-4 17-9
UT-Rio GV 5-5 14-13
UMKC 4-7 9-19
Cal-Baker. 3-7 10-15
Chicago St. 0-11 2-26
feb 18 update: Jordan Hill (24 PTS, 6 REB, 1 AST) led #seattle to a 73-63 upset over #nmst despite
Zach Lofton's (26 PTS, 12 REB, 5 AST) effort. UVU won to keep things tight among the top 3.
Bakersfield beat GC. Cool first day checking out the WAC
feb 22 forecast: #nmst should stop their two game losing streak against Chicago St tonight.
Seattle plays GC and UVU plays Cal Bakersfield. Three conference games left. Obvious must win for the top three WAC teams
feb 23: Grand Canyon got a great game from Alessandro Lever who scored 30 points , grabbed 10 rebounds, and hit 14 of 15 free throws in a win over Seattle. NMST won and Conner Toolson scored 22 in UVU's win. Two WAC games to go.
New Mex. St. 10-2 Utah Valley 9-3 Seattle 8-4
feb 25 update: NMST led Jemerio Jones (15pts , 23 rebs)crushed UMKC to wrap up the WAC regular season title. UVUmade alate push but fell to Grand Canyon. Seattle's slide continued when they couldn't hold back a late Cal-Baker push. UT Rio kept Chicago St winless in WAC play.
March 4 update: Props to #deiontesimmons (20 PTS, 11 REB, 1 STL) leading Chicago St squad to it's first #WAC win this season . CST 96 UMKC 82. They'll face #NMST in rd1 of the WACT . Utah Valley crushed Seattle in a matchup of two teams going in opposite directions. Seattle's loss allowed Grand Canyon who beat Bakersfield, to move into the 3rd slot. WACT March 8 PST times on ESPN3
6 UMKC vs. No. 3 Grand Canyon, 12 p.m.
7 CSU Bakersfield vs. No. 2 Utah Valley, 2:30 p.m.
8 Chicago State vs. No. 1 NM State, 6 p.m.
5 UTRGV vs. No. 4 Seattle, 8:30 p.m.
march 9 rd 1: Do you remember #danmajerle when he played for the Phoenix Suns? His Grand Canyon squad edged #UMKC as they try to to recover from a four year probation with a Dance ticket. Their next opponent is Utah Valley who got solid efforts from the #toolson brothers in a win over Bakersfield. NMSU handled Chicago St easily as it appears winning the WACT is their only Dance option. #seattle recoverd from its recent slide in a win over UTRGV. Solid game from Richaud Gittens SEA - G (17 PTS, 10 REB, 3 AST).
My gut says Utah Valley is the biggest threat for NMST.
march 10- My gut was wrong (what's new) as Grand Canyon with Lever and Braun scoring 15 each beat UVU to advance to final against NMST who beat Seattle. Zach Lofton NMSU - G (31 PTS, 5 REB, 2 AST)
March 11: The Aggies weren't betting on the committee so they took care of business defeating Grand Canyon 72-58 . The WAC made a solid move naming #jemeriojones the WACT MVP for grabbing 55 rebounds in three games. I'm guessing #newmexicost will be a 13 or 14 seed.
march 15 : I'm rolling the dice on #newmexicost winning its rd1 game over Clemson. #jemeriojones gets 20 rebounds
march 17: Clemson is better than #Newmexcost, who didn't shoot well , particularly from the free throw line. J Jones is a great rebounder who needs to work on free throw form. Great game from Lofton ( 29 points, 3 rebounds)
march 25, 2018
Is #chicagost looking to hire a Loyola Chicago ASST Or will they hire #markaguirre, former #Depaul star.
april 3, 2018
Now that #gonzaga has rejected an offer to move to #MWC , is New Mexico St their next target?
april 6, 2018
Some off-season news: South Dakota hires Todd Lee, associate HC at #grandcanyon , as new head coach replacing Smith who took the Utah St job
april 13, 2018
Some coaches view the #chicagost HC job as the worst position in college basketball. I wonder if the #WACwill be losing a team
april 17, 2018
Here's one reason Chicago St job is tough. CSU coaches have been told to recruit only in the Chicago area to save money. Chicago has a lot of talented high school hoopsters, but you can bet they weren't lining up to stay in town.april 28- Maybe I should apply for the #chicagost job ?
April 30, 2018
#danmajerle is taking the transfer route to move #grandcanyon closer to New Mexico St in #WAC play. Forward Michael Finke, a graduate transfer from Illinois , will join his brother Tim at GC. Also coming but sitting a season are is Isiah Brown from Northwestern and Carlos Johnson from Washington.
May 10, 2018
#chriszorich, a former LB for Notre Dame and the Chicago Bears, is the new Chicago St AD. They can only hope his recent stint as the Prairie ST CC AD helped him learn some lessons and that his 2013 personal tax evasion conviction is the rear view . Obviously he needs to hire some basketball coaches.
June 9, 2018
On Jan 13, 2017 California Baptist University Lancers accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference in three weeks July 1, 2018, and will not be eligible for WAC postseason competition in any sport in which the winner is the league’s automatic qualifier for an NCAA. Unlike Chicago St, they have a head hoops coach #RickCroy.
June 13
It's not often a big time rebounder wins PoY in any conference. He's definitely going to be an NBA rd2 draftee. #JemerrioJones (NMST) was named WAC PoY after averaging 11.3 points at a 54.5 percent clip, 14.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game in WAC play.
June 21
Cal St Bakersfield kids probably will dig visiting the Bahamas to face #CMU (MAC) in rd1 of #JunkanooJam in November
june 24, 2018
I've seen stranger things happen so I'll toss this into the cybersphere as an unsupported hunch . Will #zorich of #chicagost interview the beleaguered ex #Uconn HC, #kevinollie
june 27,2018
History lesson: The #Wac had 16 football teams in 1996 and was on the cusp of hanging with big boys. It started as six-team league in 1962 -- Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Wyoming New Mexico and Utah. WAC history
july 14, 2018
#chicagost may not remain the the #WAC and 1A hoops if all they can pay a hoops head coach is in the $70,000-$90,000 range.
july 28, 2018
Former #NMST basketball student-athlete #JemerrioJones has been awarded the 2017-18 WAC Sportsmanship Award. Jones, a Memphis native, played on the #Grizzlies NBA summer squad.
aug 3
Cal Baptist will play in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Holiday Invitational#Grandcanyon will play in the #woodenlegacy
Chicago St official website doesn't have many updates, but James Farr is listed as the Associate Head Coach.
aug 15
I looked away and #chicagost hired #LanceIrvin, an assistant at Chicago’s Morgan Park High School for his brother Nick, as its hoops head Coach . He's had NCAA 1A assistance gigs in the past and his father, Mac Irvin, was known as the “Godfather” of Chicago basketball.
nov 7, 2018
I haven't started on WAC predictions but Chicago St won't be near the top . Hoosier 104 Chic St 55
nov 9
Chicago St needs a break from Indiana teams . They lost 89-62 to Notre Dame.
