Friday Morning Dump

- Luke Winn details the inner-beauty of UConn's "ugly" National Championship performance

- Andy Katz provides some notes on a bunch of upcoming draft decisions

- Andy Glockner wonders where UConn's post-season run stacks up historically. Rush The Court wonders about the exact same thing

- Pete Thamel provides a great-read on numbers-guru Ken Pomeroy. You should be ashamed of yourselves if you don't know who KenPom is

- Eamonn Brennen wonders if Miami will make a move on Frank Martin. The K-State coach stated that no contact has been made yet. Martin has done wonders at Kansas State but has a bunch of local ties to Miami, and is of Cuban decent, one of the main ethnicities represented in the Miami area. More on the Martin-to-Miami saga

- It is not often that a head coach goes from a BCS-Conference school to a low-major school, even after being fired. But Pat Knight is hoping for success at Lamar. Eric Angevine provides must-read insight on the matter

- It shouldn't come as a huge surprise to a lot of people that the Morris twins are entering the draft and will hire an agent

- Remember about the player at Holy Name College who got hit by his coach during a practice? Well that player, who's only 19, got arrested at a Phillies game for stealing beer from a vendor

A bunch of links on coaching changes and draft decisions after the jump. Oh yeah, plus video of Brandon Rozzell throwing out the first pitch at a minor league game

- As we pointed out yesterday, Duke's Kyrie Irving is declaring for the draft after an injury-plagued freshman year. But Irving stated that his toe injury had nothing to do with him deciding to enter the draft

- Northwestern's sharpshooter John Shurna is pondering early entry to the NBA draft

- After John Pelphrey was fired by Arkansas, sharpshooting guard Rotnei Clarke asked for his release. But then Mike Anderson took the job and now it has come out that Clarke will stay at Arkansas for his senior year

- Derrick Williams' post-season play solidified himself as a top-5 pick. But as of now, he is in no rush to make a decision on entering the draft or not

- We mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but now it's officially official: Seton Hall's Anali Okoloji will transfer

- A quick look at the draft statuses of high-profile Big-12 underclassmen

- As expected, Butler's Shelvin Mack will weigh his options before making any decisions on his future

- Despite reports that Iowa's Willie Lowe asked for his release from the program, a family member is reporting that he will remain on the team

- Speaking of Iowa, recently-released Cully Payne stated in an interview that he "would still be a Hawkeye if coach Lickliter was still there"

- It could be said that no D-I school has lost the number of talented players due to transfer and early entry as UCLA. In recent years Ben Howland has struggled to keep talented players for more than two years

- Texas assistant Rodney Terry will be named head coach at Fresno State says Jeff Goodman

- Apparently Jim Calhoun offered to sit out games this year as a result of the NCAA-imposed sanctions on his program. Instead Calhoun will sit out the first three games of next season

- Lost Letterman takes a look at the remaining head coaching vacancies

- West Virginia will travel to Wichita, Kansas to face Kansas State in a non-conference game on a neutral court next season. This will be the first time Bob Huggins has coached against his former team. Huggy Bear left K-State in 2007 after just one season to take over at his Alma Mater

- A great-read on weighing the pros and cons of giving Mic Cronin an extension

- New Providence head coach Ed Cooley is pursuing Wake Forest's Jeff Battle as a potential assistant coach

- Don't look now, but the Chicago area is becoming filled with talented young coaches

- Debbie Yow vs. Gary Williams: The History

- Southern University has fired AD Greg LaFleur after his arrest in Houston for soliciting a prostitute

- ESPN released it's final conference power rankings of the season. A Sea of Blue provides some insight on how the SEC fared this season

- Draft Express recaps day one of the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament

- The Grand-Wizard of Kentucky, Matt Jones, interviewed Jeff Goodman at the Final Four about his timely article referencing allegations against John Calipari and impermissible phone calls

- Northern Kentucky will be the next university to join Division-I college basketball, The Division-II school could end up joining the Ohio Valley Conference or the Horizon league when they make the jump. But some wonder if the Horizon League would be a good fit for the Norse

- Do you want to become a sportswriter? Yes? Well, I have some bad news and I have some more bad news. Which would you like first?

- The UConn Blog dishes on the different types of Championship swag available for purchase

- Virginia Commonwealth's Joey Rodriguez appeared on The George Lopez Show a couple days ago. (No word yet on whether or not UNI's Lucas O'Rear had an appearance on The Conan O'Brian Show...)

- Despite not playing a single minute this season, Enes Kanter will throw out the first pitch at Kentucky's baseball game today, in which the school will honor the team's trip to the Final Four

VCU's Brandon Rozzell toes the mound at the Richmond Flying Squirrels home-opener



h/t VCU Rams Nation

(Only at a minor league baseball game will you see a pig on a leash)