Monday Morning Dump

OK folks. The Superbowl is over, time to put football back on the shelf. Selection Sunday is only 35 days away.

Things you may have missed: Utah State's "I believe" chant gets mashed up. Northern Iowa loses a critical piece in Lucas O'Rear. Is it possible that Washington is on the bubble? Alabama could win the SEC and not make the tournament.

- Eamonn Brennan provides a succinct recap on Kentucky/Florida that's longer than my college thesis. He also provides insight on all of the early Saturday games

- Mike DeCourcy takes a look ahead to Rivalry week

- Jason King dishes on everything going on in the Mid-Major world of college hoops

- Mike Miller compiled some notable quotables from the busy weekend of college hoops

- Raphielle Johnson put together a solid recap of the weekend action

- Matt Norlander fills us in on a couple of Big-12 teams that have kept their bubble hopes alive

- Adam Zagoria describes Kemba Walker's desire to win. The PoY candidate isn't thinking about the NBA just yet

- Matt Norlander tries to unearth what is causing white guys at Indiana to dunk so much

- Matt Jones discusses something not about Kentucky? Now I've seen everything. Jones explains Northwestern's growing habit of putting teams on the bubble

- Dick "Hoops" Weiss thinks Butler may not make the tournament this year, and I think he may be right

- In Jeff Borzello's final column for Fox, he details the road taken by Utah State's Brockeith Payne

- Andy Katz made five observations from the past week of college basketball. Eamonn Brennan does the same

- Rush the Court goes Around the Blogosphere to wrap up the Superbowl weekend

- Brendan Prunty checks the pulse of the college hoops weekend and takes a look ahead at the upcomming week

- JimmerJam2011 may not end up being the National Players of the Year, but there is now doubt he will be the most watched player of the year

- The Washington Huskies have lost three-in-a-row and have yielded the Pac-10 lead to Arizona.

- Kentucky just can't seem to close out games, and that is a true sign of a young team

- Kendall Marshall recorded a record 16 assists in the tar Heels 89-69 win over Florida State. That sure is a quick way to get people to forget about Larry Drew

- In case you missed it, NC-State's Travis Leslie was suspended indefinitely for violating team rules and did not play against Duke.

- Pittsburgh's Ashton Gibbs injured his MCL in the Panthers 71-59 win over Cincinnati. Gibbs will not play against West Virginia on Monday and is scheduled to be out 10-14 days

- Kansas will likely be without Josh Selby when they host Missouri tonight. The freshman is suffering from a stress reaction in his right foot and did not play in the Jayhawks 20-point win over Nebraska on Saturday

- Suspended-Michigan State player Korie Lucious is transferring. Iowa State and Marquette seem to be the two top choices. Cracked Sidewalks debates the pros and cons of adding Lucious to the Golden Eagles squad

- A look at the current state of the ACC

- NBAdraft.net put together a nice Q&A session with Colorado star Alec Burks

- A look at some Big-Ten bracketology

- Some player ratings for the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big-Ten

- Some international awards are handed out in the America East Conference

- Harvard an Penn went toe-to-toe in an Ivy league heavyweight showdown at the Palestra. Harvard won in double overtime 83-82 thanks to a game-winning block by Kyle Casey

I know this is a college hoops site, but we have a closet man-crush on Anderson Silva, and it's because of stuff like this:



Game Recaps

- Alabama 65, Tennessee 60 (Alabama Basketball Blog, Rocky Top Talk)

- Albany 62, Hartford 59 (Purple and Gold Nation)

- Arizona 107, California 105 (Arizona Desert Swarm, California Golden Blogs)

- Boston College 58, Virginia Tech 56 (Tech Hoops, Gobbler Country)

- Butler 73, Cleveland State 61 (Victory Firelight)

- Clemson 65, Georgia Tech (From the Rumble Seat)

- Cornell 91, Brown 79 (Cornell Basketball Blog)

- Dayton 85, La Salle 81 (Blackburn Review)

- Duke 76, North Carolina State 52 (Duke Blog)

- Florida 70, Kentucky 68 (Kentucky Sports Radio)

- Georgetown 83, Providence 81 (Casual Hoya, Friar Basketball)

- George Mason 62, old Dominion 45 (George Mason Basketball)

- George Washington 73, Charlotte 67 (Green Tinted Glasses)

- Harvard 83, Penn 82 (Soft Pretzel Logic)

- Iowa 64, Indiana 63 (Black Heart Gold Pants, Hoosier Scoop, Inside the Hall)

- Kansas 86, Nebraska 66 (Rock Chalk Talk)

- Kansas State 86, Iowa State 85 (Clone Chronicles)

- Louisville 61, DePaul 57 (Card Chronicle)

- Maryland 91, Wake Forest 70 (Testudo Times)

- Memphis 62, Gonzaga 58 (Slipper Still Fits)

- Michigan 65, Penn State 62 (MU Hoops)

- Missouri 89, Colorado 73 (Rock M Nation)

- Ohio State 82, Minnesota 69 (From th Barn)

- Oregon 81, Washington 76 (Montlake Madness)

- Pittsburgh 71, Cincinnati 59 (Cardiac Hill)

- Syracuse 72, South Florida 49 (Orange Basketball Blog)

- Texas 76, Texas Tech 60 (Longhorn Road Trip)

- UCLA 66, St. John's 59 (Bruins Nation, Johnny Jungle)

- UConn 61, Seton Hall 59 (The UConn Blog, South Orange Juice)

- Vanderbilt 78, South Carolina 60 (Anchor of Gold)

- VCU 70, James Madison 66 (VCU Ram Nation)

- Villanova 66, West Virginia 50 (VU Hoops, Villanova by the Numbers)

- Washington State 61, Oregon State 55 (CougCenter, Building the Dam)

- Wisconsin 82, Michigan State 56 (Bucky's 5th Quarter, The Only Colors)