All-Conference Dry Spell: Waves Crashing in West Coast for Pepperdine

Pepperdine is runner-up to San Francisco for most all-league selections in West Coast Conference history. But the Waves have fallen on hard times and are the nation's only school not to have an all-conference choice in the last eight seasons. The best bet for ending Pepperdine's string of futility is sturdy Stacy Davis, the WCC's newcomer of the year last season.

Elsewhere, Rutgers might need to visit its archives and bring Dick Vitale back as a recruiter. Vitale helped lure diploma-less coach Eddie Jordan to Piscataway before the Scarlet Knights reached the 1976 Final Four. Rutgers, failing to secure All-Big East Conference acclaim since Quincy Douby in 2005-06, has the longest all-league famine among members of power alliances. Unless guard Myles Mack earns acclaim, the Big Ten Conference might have more Nebraska, Northwestern or Penn State mediocrity on its hands - trio combined for three NCAA playoff victories in previous 58 years (all by Nittany Lions) - after the Scarlet Knights complete their one and only campaign in the American Athletic Conference.

Perhaps the biggest surprise among schools seeking all-league famine relief is Southern Illinois, which had at least two All-Missouri Valley selections six times in a seven-year span from 2001-02 through 2007-08. Following is an alphabetical list of schools enduring honor droughts having no all-league picks at least the past five seasons:

School	Conference	Last All-League Selection(s)
DePaul	Big East	Draelon Burns in 2007-08
Louisiana-Monroe	Sun Belt	Tony Hooper in 2006-07
Pepperdine	West Coast	Alex Acker and Glen McGowan in 2004-05
Rutgers	Big East	Quincy Douby in 2005-06
Sacramento State	Big Sky	Alex Bausley and DaShawn Freeman in 2005-06
Samford	Ohio Valley	Travis Peterson in 2007-08
Southern Illinois	Missouri Valley	Randal Falker and Bryan Mullins in 2007-08
Texas Tech	Big 12	Martin Zeno in 2007-08