Hey, Lobo fans; remember Kendall Wallace, the guy whose silk-smooth jumper from beyond the arc handed the Lobos their only homecourt defeat of the 2009-10 men's basketball season?

Well, you won't have to worry about a repeat performance in 2010-11. The UNLV shooting guard tore an ACL in a pickup game and is lost for the season. Regardless of your allegiance, you've got to feel for the young man.

It's hardly the first dose of bad news coach Lon Kruger's program has experinced since the balls went back on the rack in March. Forward Matt Shaw's career ended when he failed a random drug test at the NCAA Tournament. Star guard Tre'Von Willis has been arrested and arraigned on domestic-violence charges, though it's possible his case won't even come to trial before the upcoming season is over.

This will be the 60th consecutive year that the University of New Mexico and Brigham Young University have competed in the same athletic conference. It will also be the last.

At last, here's news on the BYU-Mountain West-WAC story with information attributed to a source with a name. Not to my surprise, that source is WAC Commissioner Karl Benson, one of college athletics' straight talkers.

Is BYU staying? Is BYU going? It seems to depend on which anonymous sources we want to believe.