Greg Smith made his move to the NBA by signing with an agent, Fresno State athletic director Thomas Boeh said.

Smith, who averaged 11.7 points and 8.1 rebounds this past season, is a border-line second round pick.

Fresno State's new men's basketball coach Rodney Terry is telling his players that stifling, pressure defense will be a goal.

"That's his philosophy right there," said Jay Hobbs, an old friend of Bulldogs coach Rodney Terry. "Get that pressure defense going and make that defense turn into your offense."

Recent statistics for Fresno State indicate that Terry will be scouring video for strategies his players can use to improve offensively as well as defensively.

The Bulldogs were one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in the nation this season, hitting from deep 29.5% of the time and ranking 280th out of 335 teams. They also struggled from within the arc, shooting 42.7% and ranking 227th.

In Western Athletic Conference games, the Bulldogs were last in the nine-team league in field-goal percentage defense. They allowed WAC foes to shoot 46.5%,and also were last in 3-point field goal percentage defense (38.3%) and sixth in scoring defense (69.5%).

Rodney Terry was named the new Bulldogs men's basketball coach Thursday.

"I didn't want to just take some job just to be a head coach," Terry said. "I wanted the right job. Fresno State is the right job."

Terry, 43, spent the past nine years as an assistant under Rick Barnes at Texas. Before that, it was four seasons at North Carolina-Wilmington and two at Baylor.

At each stop, recruiting was his primary responsibility. Terry said he will continue to chase elite talent to bring to Fresno State.

"The same guys that UCLA, USC wants, those'll be the same guys that we'll try to go after," Terry said. "When you're trying to win your conference and dominate, you always want to play or recruit to the level above."

Daniel Gibson of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dexter Pittman of the Miami Heat and current Longhorns players and McDonald's All-Americans Cory Joseph and Tristan Thompson are among the players whom Terry played a key role in recruiting to Texas.