Nevada Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:05:22 PDT

It has been a whirlwind of an off-season for Nevada, which has a new coach in David Carter, but when the dust settled for practice the Wolf Pack still had arguably two of the top five players in the WAC.

That's how the league coaches saw it last season, when guard Armon Johnson and forward Luke Babbitt were selected first-team All-WAC.

Johnson averaged 15.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.6 rebounds per game in his sophomore season. Babbitt, completely living up to his McDonald's High School All-American hype, averaged 16.9 points and 7.4 rebounds as a freshman.

Given the usual improvement between freshman and sophomore seasons, Babbitt, who has an all-around game and 3-point range, projects as the frontrunner for WAC Player of the Year honors.

Nevada had won...