Thursday Morning Dump

- Rush the Court takes a closer look at the NCAA attendance statistics (Must-read stuff). Here is the full list of attendance statistics for the 2010-2011 season. A Villanova analysis of attendance. The same goes for Seton Hall and Maryland

- Jason King continues his 2011-2012 preview with a list of teams who may drop down a peg or two

- Eric Angevine tells us how North Carolina State could seek backcourt help from two Ole Miss graduates

- Doug Gottlieb provides some excellent analysis on the early entry decisions (Insiders only, but if you are, I highly recommend reading this)

- Andy Katz throws us some quick-hitters in his Daily Word

- Doug Haller provides a great off-season round-up of Pac-12 information

- Jim Calhoun and Kemba Walker spoke out to defend UConn's academic standing. if you remember correctly, Walker was quoted during the Final Four saying he just finished reading his first book, despite graduating from UConn in three years. Walker clarifies that it was the first book he enjoyed reading cover-to-cover (I believe him. Reading for pleasure isn't everybody's cup of tea. I didn't read a book on my own personal time until I was probably close to Walker's age). Calhoun is still waiting to learn if he will lose his championship bonus due to his team's academic progress report

- Rick Pitino is backing out of an agreement to coach the Puerto Rican national team in preparation for pre-olympic qualifiers

- Kevin Nickelberry, the head coach at Howard, visited local schools in Washington, D.C. this week to speak out against bullying

- Former-NBA star (and NBA Jam sleeper stud) Kenny Anderson could end up becomming an assistant coach on Jim Larranaga's staff at Miami

- So who exactly is the top recruit in the country? Is it Austin Rivers or Anthony Davis?

- Kansas' senior Tyrell Reed gets high praise from state legislators (Did you know: Reed is the winningest player in KU basketball history? I may or may not have been unaware of that)

- Highly-touted JUCO transfer God's Gift Achiuwa will make his college decision today. But Johnny Jungle is reporting that God's Gift is headed to St. John's

- Bruce Pearl was scheduled to take the Tennessee Volunteers on an overseas trip next fall, but athletic director Mike Hamilton has announced that the trip has been cancelled. New head coach Cuonzo Martin will still take his team to Hawaii to compete in the Maui Invitational

- Illinois will start their rebuilding process with a trip to Italy in August

- In August, Creighton and Louisville will travel to the Caribbean to play exhibition games against teams from the Bahamas Basketball Federation

- The Puerto Rico Tip-Off will feature Maryland, Colorado, Iona, Purdue, Temple, Western Michigan and Wichita State

- Got $100,000 to spend? How about the historic center circle from UCLA?