Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Wednesday Morning Dump

- Andy Katz explains why Larry Shyatt wanted to go back to Wyoming

- Seth Davis breaks down the best and the worst of the off-season coaching hires. A list of all the coaching changes

- Rush the Court provides an excellent breakdown of the 2011 recruiting class (Must-read stuff right here)

- Jay Bilas fills us in on what teams he believes will be dangerous next year (Insiders Only)

- Fran Frascilla details a few of the coaching hires featuring experienced head coaches (Insiders Only)

- The Ten Twitter Commandments for fan interaction with athletes

- With the departure of Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes, Maalik Wayns is excited to take over the leadership position for Villanova

- Sean Miller may have to do something no coach likes doing. You see, Arizona is set to have 13 scholarship players next season, but they only have 12 scholarships availible. If a player doesn't decide to trasnfer, Miller may have to take a scholarship away from somebody

- Florida is holding off on 2011 recruits in order to stockpile for 2012

- North Carolina has a top recruit in CJ Leslie, but they just found out that former top-recruit Ryan Harrow is transferring. It was also revealed yesterday that Harrow was seen on the Kentucky campus. UPDATE: Maybe KSR was wrong

- Michigan State forward Garrick Sherman has chosen Notre Dame as his transfer location

- It may take Texas fans a while to get over all the departures from their squad

- For the third straight season, Hofstra's Charles Jenkins has been named as the best college basketball player in the metro area

- Jeff Borzello believes Hollis Thompson should return to Georgetown. Ironically, BIAH's Rob Dauster thinks the exact same thing

- Missouri's Laurence Bowers is close to making a decision on his NBA draft future, but it looks like he may return to school

- New Mexico should be the early favorites to win the Mountain West in 2012, and it may be in large part to their success during the spring recruiting period

- A solid update on the assorted mid-major and low-major signings

- Scout.com has released their final Top-100 rankings for the class of 2011

- Word on the street is that John Calipari may end up coaching the Dominican Republic national basketball team

- New Miami head coach Jim Larranaga believed that Frank Martin would end up getting the job in Coral Gables

- Vermont head coach Mike Lonergan has been granted permission to speak with George Washington about their recent head coaching opening. He may also be a candidate at George Mason. Kansas assistant Joe Dooley may be in the running at George Washington

- The Colonial Athletic Conference released it's conference scheduling format for the next two years

- According to statistics, there was a slight increase in attendance amongst division one basketbzall

- Diamond Leung tells us that the UMass marketing department is trying to generate increased student support

- Wait, Tim Higgins is getting awarded for his service? That makes absolutely no sense

- Some ass-clown poisoned the food of the North Carolina State live mascots

- An artists' rendering of what the UNC-MSU aircraft carrier game might look like


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