Weekend Dump

- The mid-season Naismith Award top-30 watch list has been released

- Chris Dobbertean provides a Bubble Watch for us as we head into a crucial weekend of college hoops

- Seth Davis makes his picks for the big games this weekend

- Gary Parrish shows off his versatillity, as he steps off the page and in front of the microphone

- After looking at the rosters of the 2011 McDonald's All-American teams, Jeff Goodman thinks the selection committee still has some work to do. Evan Daniels offers his opinion on the selections as well as the snubs

- Andy Katz previews the weekend's worth of college hoops action. Katz also explains (via video) why Texas is playing as good as anybody in the country

- Rush The Court put together a fantastic team-profile on San Diego State, because well, they know you've only seen them play once

- Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith put his team on blast after a dissapointing home loss to Illinois on Thursday night

- Ryan Greene provides us a frosty six-pack of the college hoops variety

- Finally somebody breaks down the Coach of the Year standings

- Kansas' Thomas Robinson will be out for the next two weeks as he recovers from knee surgery. The backup forward injured his meniscus his team's win on Monday against Missouri

- Jay Bilas talked to Cardiac Hill about the Gameday game featuring Villanova and Pittsburgh

- Will Kentucky finally get the tough road victory they need when they face Vanderbilt this Saturday?

- There are some important games being played today in the Big-12. Does that mean we can expect a couple of upsets? I think it does

- Former Golden Gopher and now-Cyclone Royce White has to sit out a season before he can play for Iowa State. So White has embraced Cyclone Alley in support of his future teammates. Pretty neat stuff.

- For every transfer who ends up like Wes Johnson or Drew Gordon, there is a Freddy Asprilla. Are transfers a good thing for a program in the long term?

- According to Jeff Goodman, Providence's freshman guard Gerard Coleman won't play against UConn this weekend because of academics

- Bruce Weber didn't start Demitri McCamey on Thursday night against Minnesota, and it proved to be effective. The guard scored 17-points and displayed a level of effort we havent seen from him before

- A solid Q&A session with Vermont's Evan Fjeld, owner of the best mustache in college basketball

- Duke seems to be the favorite to win the ACC, but is that really the case? A look at the favorites, the contenders and the darkhorses

- With Thursday's win against UConn, St. John's has put themselves back on the good-side of the bubble. Take a look at their remaining schedule to see if they will be dancing come Selection Sunday

- Jacoby Brissett recently signed his letter of intent to play quarterback at University of Florida. But the highly-touted recruit may chose to suit up for the basketball team as well. (Notable QBs who also played basketball: Donovan McNabb, Charlie Ward)

- An interesting story about a course being taught at University of Michigan called "The Culture of Basketball"

- A look at what some home-courts could look like if they used Oregon's designer

= Is it just me, or does it seem like anytime somebody says something offensive on twitter, they claim their account was hacked? Texas' J'Covan Brown is the latest baller to cry foul

- It is likely that Louisville will have Rakeem Buckles and Gorgui Dieng back in the lineup today when they face syracuse

- While it seems highly-unlikely that Northwestern will make the NCAA tournament, it's not entirely out of the question.

- The Michigan Wolverines have been playing sharp basketball for the past month or so. With their tournament status still on the bubble, they must keep hope alive

- Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson is aware his team isn't that good. But he wants fans to stay patient

- An interesting list of recruits that have left Bruce Weber at the alter

- Athletic departments are slowly realizing that if you want to attract more fans to basketball games, you have to give them free stuff.

- File this under "You can't make this stuff up": Pac-10 can't buy new domain name because Tupac Shakur owns it


Game Previews

- Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech (Tech Hoops)

- Indiana at Michigan (UM Hoops)

- Iowa State at Kansas (Rock Chalk Talk)

- Kentucky at Vanderbilt (A Sea of Blue, Kentucky Sports Radio, Wildcat Thunder Blog, Anchor of Gold)

- Marquette at Georgetown (Casual Hoya, Anonymous Eagle, Cracked Sidewalks)

- Missouri at Oklahoma (Rock M Nation)

- North Carolina State at Wake Forest (Blogger So Dear)

- Ohio State at Wisconsin (Bucky's 5th Quarter, The Buckeye Battle Cry)

- Southern Illinois at Creighton (White and Blue Review)

- Stanford at Washington (Montlake Madness)

- Syracuse at Louisville (Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician)

- Tennessee at Florida (Rocky Top Talk)