Tuesday Morning Dump: National Championship Edition

The 2010-2011 college basketball season is officially over. This has been by-far the most successful season in Ballin' is a Habit's four year history. We would like to thank our readers, twitter followers, supporters and critics for reading what we have to say. It means a lot to us that you value our opinion and intellect. And I believe some congratulations are in order to the UConn Huskies for winning the National Championship.

-The Bulldogs could not buy a bucket last night. Butler hit just three shots from inside the arc and shot a record-low 18%

- Kemba Walker will be able to graduate after just three years at UConn. But that might not mean he's leaving for the NBA

- Adam Zagoria explains how Kemba Walker's halftime speech lifted the Huskies to the top

- Mike Miller compiled some stats about teams playing in back-to-back championships. he also provided some numbers on old coaches winning titles. Miller also put together a link-heavy recap of "the Houston Brickfest 2011"

- Andy Staples wonders if Jim Calhoun will go out on top, or return to Storrs and face his suspension

- Even the smartest experts are wrong sometimes. Take a look at what Nick Fasulo wrote about UConn back in November

- Doug Haller put together a must-watch list of the past 16 years-worth of "One Shining Moments"

- Is it too early for a 2011-2012 preseason top-25? of course not

- Well I'll be damned, Jeff Borzello actually wrote something interesting (But need not worry about him seeing this. He refuses to read any work other than his own)

- Kemba Walker's mom said that dance classes he took growing up helped him to shine on college basketball's biggest stage

- Gregg Doyel tries to explain just how bad last night's title game really was

- Kevin Pelton discusses Jeremy Lamb's role in UConn's impressive title run

- Gary Parrish explains why it was appropriate that UConn won this season's National Championship

- Riots broke out in Storrs following UConn's championship victory

- Houston football players got to watch a national championship game, courtesy of UConn's athletic department

- Luke Winn played photographer for the weekend in Houston

- Rich Bozich explains how UConn ground out the school's third National Championship

- Ohio State fans provide an interesting perspective on watching last night's championship game

- Southern Universtiy Athletic Director Greg LaFleur was arrested in Houston for soliciting a prostitute

- Fiarfield has hired Princeton's Sydney Johnson as their new head coach. Ed Cooley left the Stags after the season to take the job at Providence

- Towson has hired Pittsburgh assistant Pat Skerry as their new head coach

- Wichita State head coach Greg Marshall has become one of the many coaches to turn down the North Carolina State job opening

- Cincinnati's Mic Cronin also turned down the NC State offer. Instead, Cronin recieved an extension from the Bearcats to remain their head coach until the end of the 2016-2017

- Ohio State assistant coach Jeff Boals is the leading candidate for the Fresno State opening

- Lon Kruger, the new head coach at Oklahoma, does not believe his program needs to rebuild
. Speaking of Kruger, who will UNLV hire to replace him?

- Word on the street is that St. Louis assistant coach Porter Moser will be named the new head coach at Loyola (IL)

- Four reasons why John Calipari won't leave Kentucky

- Oklahoma State's Darrell Williams faces trial on rape charges

- Missouri's Kim English and Laurence Bowers are eyeing the NBA draft. This comes on the heals of the school naming Miami's Frank Haith as the new head coach. Miami may have not had overwhelming success during Haith's tenure, but he did coach the Hurricanes to six of the ten best seasons in school history

- North Carolina's Harrison Barnes and John Henson will decide on their futures in the next week or so

- With a potential lockout looming for the NBA, many NBA prospects are uncertain about their futures. A look at some of the undecided NBA prospects from the Big Ten. The same goes for Kentucky

- A look back at some Pac-10 predictions

- Morehead State's Kenny Faried was named the 2011 Under Armor Defensive Player of the Year

- St. John's recruit D'Angelo Harrison stated that the Johnnies will be part of the 2012 Final Four in New Orleans

- Roy Williams won a cook-off against fellow-ACC coach Seth Davis

- Steve Kerr wants to see some changes with the First Four

- The winning bracket of ESPN's Tournament Challenge


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