NM State: Jabari Rice may be the scorer the Aggies need to repeat as WAC champ.
Grand Canyon: Majerle's kids went the trey way in a bruising loss to Illinois (B10). Isiah Brown Jovan Blacksher Jr are players to watch.
California Baptist: #MilanAcquaah , a guard who's been averaging nearly 20 PPg and doing a solid dishing assists and grabbing rebounds, will lead the Lancers closer to the top of the WAC.
Utah Valley- Is Havsa, the guard from Turkey, a potential solid guard who can assist and rebound?
Seattle U: Terrell Brown is the Redhawk to watch this season
CSU Bakersfield: DeMonte Buckingham is far way from his hometown of Richmond VA, but he'll be a major factor in the Roadrunners' on-going improvement improvement.
UT Rio Grande Valley- Tyson Smith and Terry Winn III are Vacqueros worth watching.
UM Kansas City: McKissic remains the key player
Chicago State: Cougars won't get out of the basemnt this season but Xavier Johnson opened the season scoring 37 points in a win against a non 1A team
Nov 13: Cal Baptist hung with Texas most of last night before losing 67-54 MILAN ACQUAAH (17pts, 7 reb , 3 assists)
Dec 15: Cal Baptist has the best OOC record among WAC teams and UVU , the worst. I don't catch many televised WAC games but did get to UTRGV lose to Creighton 89-58 the other night.
dec 22
Quinton Johnson II led the UTRGV Vaqueros (4-8) with 17 points and seven rebounds in a 69-59 loss to Texas Tech, who madeit to the final game of the Dance last season.
dec 25
Terrell Brown had 17 points, eight assists and four steals in a 79-57 Seattle win over Long Beach St(BIG West). Redhawks needed this win to shake off a rough OOC December heading into WAC play.
dec 29
Seattle turned around and gets crushed by St Mary's 80-58.
I'm getting an education on school names from the WAC OOC schedule. Cal
Baptist beat Ottawa University Arizona 92-75, and UVU beat Antelope
Valley 80-65.
dec 30
Back to more recognizable names: CS Bakersfield was within 3 points (44-41) of Texas Tech with 12:54 left but lost 73-58 last night.
jan 3, 2020
WAC play is underway and nothing changes for Chicago St who lost Utah Valley. UMKC beat Seattle, and #brandonboyd (25 PTS, 5 REB, 4 AST ) led Cal Baptist to a 76-67 victory of UTRGV.
jan 12
Brandon Boyd had 16 points as Cal Baptist edged past Grand Canyon 61-57 and trail NMST, who barely beat UMKC last night, by a half a game in the WAC. In other games Seattle beat UVU and UTRGV beat Chicago St.
jan 17
Grand Canyon beat Chicago St 78-64, but either they're low on talent or Chicago St is improving. Rajeir Jones scored 19 points in the Cougars' loss. NMST(4-0) beat UVU to stay a game up on idle Cal Baptist(3-1) and Seattle (3-1) who beat UTGRV. Bakersfield beat UMKC.
jan 27
Franck Kamgain registered 16
points and six rebounds for UMKC in a win over Cal Baptist(4-2) who fell
two games behind NMST (6-0) , a winner over UTRGV yesterday.
jan 30
#De'jonDavis tallied 19 points and 17 rebounds for Cal Baptist in a win over UVU. Big win that keeps them 2GB of NMST .
feb 2
Milan Acquaah had 18 points and eight assists as Cal Baptist defeated Seattle 72-65 to remain 2GB of NMST, a winner over Grand Canyon, in the WAC. UMKC beat Chicago St. UTRGV beat Bakersfield.
feb 9
Cal Baptist's(7-3) comeback against an improving Grand Canyon(5-4) squad fell short in 103-98 loss . NMST(10-0) remained undefeated in WAC play witha 67-61 win over UMKC, Seattle(5-4) beat UVU(3-6). Chicago St(0-10) got closer to it's first conference win in a long time, but Lesley Varner II made 4 of 5 treys and 9 of 10 free throws to score 23 points for UTRGV(5-5) in a comeback 75-64 win.
feb 15
Coach Majerlie has Grand Canyon getting into gear for a late season run . They beat UMKC 71-66 to move to 6-4 in WAC play but NMST beat Seattle to move to 11-0. Second place Cal Baptist (7-3) played an OOC game against Westcliff. UTRGV beat UVU and Bakersfield beat Chicago St.
feb 21
Seattle(6-6) put the brakes on Grand Canyon's(7-5) recent run with a 95-89 win. Terrell Brown
SEA
- G(31 PTS, 6 REB, 10 AST) had a big night. UVU(4-8) beat Bakersfield (5-7). NMST (12-0) has 4.5 games lead on second place Cal Baptist(7-4).
feb 23
Yes, Chicago St is a bad team but they were handed one of their worst defeats this season by Cal Baptist who hit 18 treys in a 95-53 victory. NMSt beat remained undefeated in WAC play with a win over UTRGV. Seattle continued to improve with a win over Bakersfield, while Grand Canyon lost to UVU.
feb 27
Milan Acquaah scored 24 points and De'Jon Davis added a double-double for California Baptist(20-8, 9-4 WAC)
in a 73-66 win over UVU
March 1
De'jon Davis scored 31 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and Milan Acquaah added 27 points for Cal Baptist(10-4) in a narrow win over Seattle. UMKC crushed Chicago St and UTRGV beat Grand Canyon.
mARCH 4
i THINK Chicago St men's hoops may be working its way out of the WAC and 1A hoops the men's team would not travel to Seattle or Utah Valley for WAC games this week, and the woman's team won't be hosting the same teams . And also may not attend the WACT. tHE REASON: coronavirus . No response yet from the WAC.
March 6
Wow, Cal Baptist got a taste of the big dog. NMST 83 CB 50. UMKC beat UVU
March 13
Tarleton St near Dallas TX, and Dixie St in Utah are joining the WAC in 2020.CAL St Bakersfield is leaving the WAC for the Big West. UMKC is leaving for the Summit League which leaves Chicago St, the lone member from the Midwest section of the USA. All of these moves were scheduled a few years ago.
March 17
Jerry Colangelo, Grand Canyon strategic advisor,said this after the school fired Dan Majerle "GCU has become a premier mid-major basketball
destination with its resources, facilities, and student and community
support." Just a bit of overhype. So much for Phoenix Suns alumni hanging tough.
March 28
Looking back to 1962: The WAC’s original
six-team league: Arizona, Arizona State, Brigham Young, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming. AZ and ASU exited the Pac 10 in 1978.
March 31
look who's back: Tarleton St who's moving to 1A and the WAC hired #BillyGillispie , who had decent stints at the first two schools: UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Texas Tech. He 's been a coaching at Ranger College, a community college in TX, since 2015.
may 7 2020
I was kind of surprised Chris Jans, the NMST HC, considered replacing
Forbes, who took the Wake Forest job, at E Tenn St (Southern
Conference). At best it would've been a lateral move with maybe a few
more $$$$. ETSU elevated Shay an asst to the HC job.
may 20, 2020
#WAC hoops stays in the off-season spotlight. Dan Majerle, ex GC HC, is suing Grand Canyon for waging a campaign to disparage him as part of its
effort to avoid its severance obligation. He was replaced by former Valparaiso and Vanderbilt coach Bryce Drew.
May 26, 2020
#terrellbrown (PTS 20.7 REB 6.2 AST 4.9 last season), a native of Seattle , used the grad transfer portal and left Seattle U for Arizona.
July 10, 2020
Is hiring ex NBAers to be college head coaches a growing trend? Mark Madsen had a rough season(11-18, 5-11) at UVU(WAC) replacing Mark Pope who went 24-8 at BYU(WCC) and was probably going to get the Cougars to a No. 6 or No. 7 seed.
dec 10, 2020
#BillyGillispie , who had decent stints at the first two schools: UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Texas Tech has Tarleton (WAC) off to a 2-2 start including battling Texas A&M hard before falling 73-66.e slated to play Kansas on Dec 13.
