College Basketball: Bishop named POTW

Texas State head coach Doug Davalos can rest a bit easier this week since senior forward Tony Bishop was named Southland Conference Player of the Week.

You can read the SLC's press release by CLICKING HERE.

Spring Training Update

Former Texas State first baseman Paul Goldschmidt launched a three-run home run in the Arizona Diamondbacks' game this afternoon against the Colorado Rockies. Goldschmidt's bomb, which you can see here by clicking here, tied the game in the ninth inning.

College Basketball: Texas State/UTSA

• Texas-San Antonio leads Texas State by five at halftime, 38-33.
• Got a little bit chippy in the first half as four technical fouls were dished out. UTSA's Larry Wilkins and Texas State's Tony Bishop got tangled up in the paint and then Doug Davalos and Brooks Robinson got into it a little bit.
• Not sure why the Bobcats decided to sit in a 1-3-1 zone while the Roadrunners lit them up in the first half from beyond the arc. UTSA knocked down 6 of its 12 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes.
  
• Texas State won at home again, thanks to a pair of free throws by Ryan White with 0.3 seconds left in the game. The final score was 82-80.

College Basketball: If the SLC Tournament began today...

• Texas State's men would be the No. 2 seed at 9-4 even though it has the same record as McNeese State. The Cowboys own a tiebreaker against the Bobcats from a win earlier in the season.
• Texas State's women wouldn't be in the tournament as Suzanne Fox's team is currently sits in ninth. The Bobcats fell to Southeastern Louisiana Wednesday night and the Lions improved to 4-9, earning a tiebreaker against Texas State.
  

How about a poll?

College Football: Wright hired by Wharton ISD as AD/HC

Former Texas State head coach Brad Wright was hired by Wharton ISD as its new athletic director and head football coach. Wright will make $80,000 per year, according to the Wharton Journal-Spectator.

College Basketball: If the SLC Tournament began today

Here are the seeds in the men's tournament...

1. Texas State (8-3)
2. McNeese State (7-4)
3. Northwestern State (7-4)
4. Southeastern Louisiana (6-5)
5. Stephen F. Austin (6-5)
6. Sam Houston State (6-5)
7. Texas-San Antonio (6-5)
8. Texas-Arlington (6-5)

Here are the seeds in the women's tournament...

1. McNeese State (10-1)
2. Lamar (9-2)
3. Sam Houston State (8-3)
4. Texas-San Antonio (7-4)
5. Central Arkansas (7-4)
6. Stephen F. Austin (6-5)
7. Northwestern State (6-5)
8. Texas State (4-7)

College Basketball: Texas State finds place in recent Bracketology

According to ESPN's Joe Lunardi, Texas State is the favorite to earn the Southland Conference's bid to the NCAA Tournament. Lunardi released his recent "Bracketology" report this afternoon.

The Bobcats would play Florida Atlantic in the first round play-in game and if they won, Texas State would tangle with Ohio State.

College Basketball: Davalos sounds off

Talked with Texas State head coach Doug Davalos this afternoon about his team's recent success and senior forward Tony Bishop. Eventually the topic about Bishop NOT being named Southland Conference Player of the Week came up and this is what Davalos had to say...

"The guy they gave it to (Devon Baker) had a good week, but it was all offensive," Davalos said. "He’s the worst defensive player in the conference but they gave it to that guy, because he scored."

Baker averaged 24 points per game last week to lead Northwestern State to a pair of wins.

Bishop put up 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds Wednesday night against Central Arkansas, so another big performance Saturday afternoon against Texas-Arlington might put him in line for the award.

College Basketball: A Graphical Representation

StatSheet.com does a great job of putting together pages for each team in Division I with graphical representations of who leads said team in each category. As you can tell for the Bobcats, it's pretty close to being equal across the board in several categories.

NCAA Basketball

College Football: Signing Class Breakdown

Offensive Linemen — 6
Wide Receivers — 4
Defensive Backs — 4
Defensive Linemen — 3
Tight Ends — 2
Linebackers — 2
Running Backs — 2
Kicker — 1

College Football: How the rest of the WAC fared on National Signing Day

Here is a list of how the rest of the remaining teams in the WAC did on National Signing Day according to Rivals.com.

Louisiana Tech — 17 3* commits — Click Here
Utah State — 8 3* commits — Click Here
San Jose State — 6 3* commits — Click Here
Idaho — 5 3* commits — Click Here
New Mexico State — 4 3* commits — Click Here

No WAC schools pulled in any four-star recruits, but out of the 25 players Louisiana Tech will bring in for the 2011 season, 17 were three-star recruits.

College Football: National Signing Day

Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.

To tide you over, take a look at the list Rivals has of verbal commitments by CLICKING HERE.

Here is the list of signed recruits from the Texas State web site.

Here's a quote from new Texas State offensive line coach Dennis Darnell on his recruits — "We don't have any of what people call, 'hogs,' or those who just line up and can only run straight at you. We have some athletic kids with great strength backgrounds. We want to have the strongest line in the state. We're not there yet, but we will get there."

Here's a quote from new Texas State defensive coordinator Craig Naivar on the defensive recruits — "Tylond Robertson and David Mims really stood out to us on tape. Those guys have an immediate ‘It’ factor and speed off the edge but every single one of these guys can play."

College Football: Talking recruiting

Had a chance to talk about Texas State and its recruiting with Christopher Lyke, the owner of TexasHSFootball.com. You can check out the interview by CLICKING HERE.

National Signing Day, by the way, is tomorrow (Wednesday).