February 24 at Taco Bell Arena in Boise, ID
ESPNU
We've had Drew Fellios and Sean Harrington before and they never disappoint.
Drew!
Sean!
"juice are flowing! lot of energy in this building"
"bracketologist"
"joey brackets"
"that's a heat check, and the heat is on!"
"he doesn't have the green light, he has the neon green light"
"quiet assassin"
"Caleb Martin going to dunkland"
"one shot away from really setting Taco Bell Arena ablaze"
534 - Utah State at New Mexico
February 14 at The Pit in Albuquerque, NM
Mountain West Network
Huge performance from long range for Anthony Mathis, who hit 7-of-10 from behind the arc in a 78-63 win for the Lobos.
Both teams came in 7-6 in league play, but Mathis, and a 33-point effort from the bench, allowed the hosts to pull a game ahead of the Aggies.
Sam Merrill was somehow a bit better than Mathis from distance (7-of-8), scoring a career-high 33 points, but Merrill's teammates added just 30 themselves and that ultimately doomed the visitors. Utah State committed 23 turnovers, which didn't help either.
* Each time the broadcast came back from a commercial, a graphic like this one
would appear on screen.
Rebounds, fouls, blocks, steals, assists - fine.
Hustle stats?
I'm sure it meant an accumulation of deflections, charges drawn, things like that. But there was no explanation from the broadcast team about what it meant. So, I'm sorry, Mountain West Network, but you can't just put HUSTLE STATS on the screen, assign a number to each team and not explain what is going on.