SJSU versus host Weber State on Saturday

The Weber State basketball team is going to be mad on Saturday night. Whether that transfers into better play and a win remains to be seen but the Wildcats are coming off a home loss to Utah State and own a 0-3 overall record, and the latter especially just won't do in Ogden.

Plus, Weber has never opened up a season with an 0-4 record and stand at 92-14 at home in Coach Randy Rahe's eight seasons.

Considering all the success Rahe and his guys enjoyed during the Damian Lillard era plus a 30-7 last year, the basketball program has produced justified high expectations. Even for 2013-14, both the league's coaches and the beat reporters selected the Ogden-ites as the pre-season choice to finish first in the Big Sky Conference.

So with road losses at BYU (not unexpected) and Colorado State (which is down from last season) and the aforementioned home downer versus USU, it should be a scratching and clawing squad looking to right itself.

6-foot-4 senior guard Davion Berry leads the Wildcats and his is an interesting history. He came out of Hayward High minus DI offers so he signed with Cal State Monterey Bay. After an extremely impressive freshman year, Weber came calling and he transferred. Berry is averaging 18.7 points per game, tops on the team, as is his 23 trips to the foul line.

6-foot-10 center Kyle Tresnak is second in scoring with 14.3 points an outing and he's shooting 61% overall.

At 14 points per contest is 6-foot-2 freshman Jeremy Senglin and he's at 5-9 from long distance.

The best athlete on the team is 6-foot-9 junior Joel Bolomboy with 9.0 and 8.7 averages in scoring and rebounding.

Senior point Julian Richardson has been up-and-down thus far and he's another former Bay Area resident, having played at West High in Tracy.

Three statistics jump out as major causes of Weber's current problems: being out-shot 44% to 49%, out-rebounded by four per game and having a 33/18 'proficiency' in turnovers.

So it will be a veteran (Richardson) versus a freshman (Jalen James) at the point as well as a possible matching up of frosh Rashad Muhammad against the senior Berry. Let's see if tomorrow night turns out to be a case of youth wasted on the young or the kids taking it to their elders.