Wednesday Morning Dump

- Mike DeCourcy explains why Bruce Pearl's situation is different from Butch Davis'

- Most of the country's best point guard recruits in the past 12-months have taken their game to Tobacco Road. But why exactly are most of them heading to Durham instead of Chapel Hill? Blue vs. Blue provides some friendly banter on this subject.

- A neat list on the best players to play for Jim Calhoun. (It is a testament to how well he can could recruit. Even the fourth team is kinda loaded.)

- Fran Fraschilla identifies the top defenders in the country, now with video! (But you have to be an insider)

- The work that Mark Fox has done at Georgia thus far is helping build a fanbase, so sayeth Gary Parrish. (Something their football team seems to be lacking right now.)

- Luke Winn ranks the 16 best frontcourts in the country

- A great-read from Adam Zagoria on Cincinnati's Sean Kilpatrick. The Bearcats lost Deonta Vaughn and Lance Stephenson, their two best players from a year ago, but Kilpatrick and company are eager to get back on the court and prove ney-sayers wrong

- Northwestern has quite the lineup scheduled for Midnight Madness; Syracuse is going old-school for their Midnight Madness (It's kinda sad/depressing that, as a 25-year-old, I have to refer to a popular hip-hop group from my youth as "old school")

- Andy Katz explains why an underrated-Marquette team is destined for over achievement; Jimmy Butler is the perfect guy to lead this Golden Eagles team; A Marquette morning dump.

- Jeff Borzello gives us his position-by-position rankings.

- Blogger So Dear, the terrific Wake Forest blog, takes a look at the impact Tony Wood's dismissal will have on the basketball team this season.

- Part four of RTC's series on Life as a Mid-Major.

- The Pac-10 can't be as bad as it was last year, right? Five Pac-10 storylines to pay attention to this season. Dan Hanner also has a statistical prediction of the Pac-10 standings while Mike Miller wonders if UCLA is in-store for another sub-par season.

- Bob Hurley Sr., the iconic New Jersey high school coach and father of legendary Duke point guard Bobby Hurley, had a street named in his honor.

- I'm actually quite surprised I haven't heard more about this: How will Notre Dame fare without the services of 'Gody.

- According to Sparty head coach Tom Izzo, he doesn't want another National Championship, he "needs it".

- Even with the loss of their big-3 and their head coach, Cornell is not thinking about rebuilding.

- The Chanticleers are projected to sit atop the Big South Conference.

- The predicted order of finish in the CAA and what teams will have to do to move up in standings. Here's what we thought the preseason rankings should look like. My advice? You should probably trust the other link.

- DePaul junior Eric Wallace will miss the entire 2010-2011 season after fracturing his tibia and fibula during a preseason workout last week.

- A breakdown of the possible/probably starting-five for the new-look St. John's Red Storm

- The five stages of college basketball talent evaluation

- A solid Q&A session with 2011 VCU commit Pierria' Henry. (And yes, that apostrophe is there on purpose. Why? I have no idea. Maybe that should have been addressed in this interview.)