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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Fairly hidden from the national conscious in the Mountain Time Zone, Utah is hardly the first place most think of as a hotbed for college basketball. Tobacco Road it is not-in so many ways-but when it comes to consistent quality among its NCAA Division I programs, few can match The […]
Wishing a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving to all today. A pair of top 10 ACC teams faced similar opponents on Wednesday, with dramatically different-but ultimately successful-results.
The WAC’s demise has been much-noted over the years, sometimes with almost a morbid glee, but the league is still playing basketball and actually had three very nice teams this year.
New Mexico State continues to be the class of the WAC and thoroughly dominated the league this past year after some early season injuries.
The thinking seems to be that the main motivation for St. John’s to be ready to hire Chris Mullin is that the school wants to follow the Fred Hoiberg model of hiring an alumnus who was a former NBA front office before making a splash as a college coach, but the Red Storm will get far more with Mullin.
The ever-changing WAC is hanging on, with a few positives in 2013-14 led by its top program and the surprise regular season champion.
