The WAC grabbed my attention in the early 90's, however it started in 1962 with these six-teams. Arizona, Arizona State, Brigham Young, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. It's most well known recent star is #PascalSiakham, former #NMST player and budding NBA star with the Toronto Raptors. Grand Canyon has moved to the top of the league this season, and new coach Bryce Drew has been a big reason for their success. ASBJORN MIDTGAARD leads the team with a 14.6 ppg. Meanwhile New Mexico St, the perennial league leader, has fallen to the middle of the pack.
march 7, 2021
Tarleton (10-10, 5-7 WAC) has won its last three games but Coach Billy Gillispsie's squad will not get a chance to vie for a Dance ticket WACT left Tarleton and Dixie St out because they are transitioning to 1A, and are ineligible for the Dance, but is moving forward with a six team tournament in Las Vegas. Chicago State canceled their season.
MARCH 12, 2021
Seattle beat Cal Baptist 83-66 and will face Grand Canyon while NMST beat UTRGV to face UVU. NMST. 3 seed NMST doesn't want to lose their annual hold on the WAC dance ticket.
March 14, 2021
Grand Canyon beat NMST in the WACT to make it to its first Dance and on the 23rd anniversary(3/13/98) of their head coach, Bryce Drew, hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer for Valparaiso to beat 10th-ranked Mississippi in the Dance.
March 16, 2021
Grand Canyon faces Iowa in rd1 and have ASBJORN MIDTGAARD , a 7' center, but I don't know if he can handle Garza.
March 21, 2021
Both centers had solid games, but the Hawkeyes shot better as a team in 86-74 win over GC
A. Midtgaard GC(18 PTS, 6 REB, 1 AST)
L. Garza IOWA(24 PTS, 6 REB, 1 AST)
March 25, 2021
I missed this story in February. Lew Hill, the head men’s basketball coach at UTRGV(WAC), died at the age of 56, after suffering through a variety of medical difficulties. He was an assistant on the Oklahoma staff that reached the F4 in 2016. They haven't hired a permanent replacement.
April 8, 2021
#MattFigger, who compiled a 76-51 (.598) in four seasons at Austin Peay (OVC) ,is the new men's basketball head coach at #UTRGV. For my buddies in Alabama he was an assistant at South Alabama (2003-07)
May 18, 2021
#WAC travel (Texas to Seattle ,WA) will get longer in 2022 with the addition of four teams, Sam Houston, Abilene Christian, and Stephen F. Austin from the Southland Conference, and Southern Utah from the Big Sky.
July 9, 2021
#FardawsAimaq ,the 6-11 Utah Valley(WAC) center who, averaged a double-double (13.9 ppg, 15.0 rpg) last season, withdrew from the NBA Draft and will return to UVU for the 2021-22 season. Smart move!
July 10, 2021
Jeff Hurd, who helped bring Lamar University and three other Texas schools into the WAC for 2022, will step down as Commissioner at the end of this year. He joined the WAC in 1985 as Director of Conference Relations, then worked various jobs before taking over as commissioner in 2012. That 's a long stint in one conference.
Aug 8, 2021
Coach Billy Gillispsie's Tarleton St squad visits Kansas on Nov 9. The last time he coached against KU was during the 2011/12 Big 12 season when he was HC at Texas Tech. Last year's matchup was canceled.
WAC Officially Welcomes ‘Texas Four’ to Conference .
Abilene Christian University, Lamar University, Sam Houston State University and Stephen F. Austin State University
Aug 9
it doesn't appear that WAC football will be 1a soon , but they just formed a schedule alliance with the ASUN .
New Mexico State, a WAC member competes as an FBS 1A football independent, IS WATCHING THIS CLOSELY.
The invitations of membership stated that during the first year of WAC membership, “football-playing institutions will commit to an analysis of all implications of a move to FBS.”
Oct 6, 2021
New Mexico St , whose favored by many to win the WAC despite Grand Canyon winning the WAC 2021 title has a nicer travel schedule with the new Texas teams in the conference this season.
Jan. 13: vs. Tarleton
Jan. 15: vs. Abilene Christian
Jan. 20: @ Sam Houston State
Jan. 22: @ Stephen F. Austin
In OOC play they face Washington St of the Pac 12 this season.
