The continued recruiting of Washington State has paid off again for the Cowboys. This news comes from Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times.

While the Huskies were gaining a kicker last night they were reportedly losing a legacy recruit.

Dawgman had the details on the news that Jason Thompson, a Kennedy High senior and the brother of Everrette Thompson, has decommitted and will instead sign with Wyoming, where he can play quarterback. Washington had recruited Thompson with the idea he would play safety. But he said Wyoming offered him as a QB this week and he decided to pursue his dream of playing quarterback at the next level.

Obviously you can tell that Thompson is very serious about playing QB in college and not moving to defense. He is giving up the opportunity to play with his brother at a PAC 12 school. He chose UW over UW. Bad pun intended. Thompson is a 6-3 195lbs dual threat QB with a two star rating from Rivals.

With the loss of Adam Pittser the Cowboys certainly needed to add at least one quarterback in this class. They may have another addition as well.

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Less than a week till signing day and there is still work till be done. Wyoming picked up another commitment this week on the offensive side. WR Nico Brown from Leander HS in Leander, TX is the latest commit. This is certainly a position that the Cowboys were looking to add depth with this class. Brown is an interesting athlete because he has some great tools but is also sort of a mystery. Scout has him listed as 6'4 200lbs with a two star rating. It also shows that he has offers from Arizona, Houston, Kansas State and Missouri. Certainly a very solid group of schools and even better that he chose Wyoming.

Rivals doesn't have him in their database yet. 247 has him listed as 6'2 190 with an offer from Houston but no rating. So there appears to be some dispute on how tall he is right now. Either way he has great size and caught the attention of some big programs. We scoured the internet for video highlights but came up empty. I'm sure the school will post a video of him after signing day.

There was some other bad news that did happen to Wyoming recruiting class.

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So the second half against San Diego State didn't go the way that the Cowboys hoped in their 52-42 loss. Still the Cowboys hung close with the Aztecs in first half and were only down 25-22. The highlight of game and likely season was Larry Nance. Jr. doing a dunk that was a perfect silhouette of the Air Jordan "Jumpman" Logo. The dunk topped the Sportscenter Top 10 plays of the night and gave some nice exposure to the Wyoming program.

The bigger news for Wyoming would have been knocking off the #13 team in the country. That didn't happen as the Aztecs were able to hit plenty of shots in the second half. The Cowboys scored a season low 42 points and barely had much happening in the second half. Right now the Pokes are showing they are a good team but not quite ready to compete for 40 minutes with teams like New Mexico, San Diego State and UNLV. Without Derrious Gilmore in the lineup it makes it really hard for Wyoming to try and run the offense when JayDee Luster needs a break. Luster's played at least 34 minutes in the last four games. He is playing hard on both sides of the court and been very strong on defense.

Hopefully Gilmore can get himself eligible and Wyoming will be able to get back some of their depth. If you want to see a video of Nance's dunk it is posted after the jump.

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The Aztecs arrive in Laramie today so there will be basketball. Join us here to chat during the game

The Wyoming Cowboys (16-3,2-1) are coming off two solid victories last week over Air Force and Colorado State. Now they are hoping to use that momentum to try and knock off the Mountain West leading San Diego State Aztecs (17-2,3-0). The only two losses this season for the Aztecs have been to #6 Baylor and #15 Creighton. Coach Steve Fisher hates the trip to Laramie but he may have over thought things this time.

Instead of taking a commercial flight to Denver and driving vans up to Laramie he decided they needed a charter plane instead. So school splurged an extra $20k for the nineteen seat plane so they could arrive quicker to Wyoming. Unfortunately their charter plane has a fuel tank the size of a teenage girl and couldn't make the 868 mile flight without refueling. They were originally scheduled to refuel in St. George, Utah but bad weather conditions forced them to land in Cedar City, Utah instead. Once on the ground the snow arrived and all flights were halted. So instead of taking the 8 hour trip the Aztecs are in Utah for the night and won't fly out till 8a.m. on Tuesday.

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The Cowboys were looking for another defensive end to add to this recruiting class and looks like they found their man. Sam Awrabi is a 6-3 230lb defensive end from Clovis East HS in Clovis, CA and is the latest commit for the Cowboys. Awrabi carries a three star rating from all the recruiting services like Rivals, Scout and 247. Rivals is the site confirming that Awrabi has committed to the Cowboys. He also held offers from Washington State and Hawaii.

I was very high on Awrabi when we reported the offer earlier this month and that is still true today. I like his size, motor and his aggressiveness on the field. He certainly hands out some punishment when he is tackling the ball carrier. This another very good get for the Cowboy staff who has had an amazing January with recruiting. Wyoming now has 18 verbal commitments and six of those are rated three stars by Rivals.

Footage of Awrabi from his junior year is posted after the jump.

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Can victories get any sweeter than this one? Beating down your arch rival in front a raucous crowd certainly feels good. Wyoming (16-3, 2-1) started off strong and their pressure defense gave Colorado State (13-5, 2-1) fits all game long. Leonard Washington had the best game of his collegiate career with an incredible 32 point 14 rebound effort. The big man could do wrong in this one. He was menace inside on both sides of the court. He also hit three three pointers: including a bank shot with the shot clock expiring. That pretty much summed his night rightthere.

The AA was rocking once again with a crowd of 7,901 in attendance. That's nearly a 1,000 more then showed up last week. Hopefully this momentum continues and the stands will be packed with more then 10,000 by the end of the season.

I think Tim Miles summed things up perfectly with this postgame statment:

"It was Wyoming's day. They kicked our butts." - Tim Miles

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Join us here as the Pokes look to knock off Tim Miles and his crew of basketball shooting sheep.