Weekend Dump: Final Four Edition Part I

This is it folks. It's crunch time. Only three more games are left in the 2010-2011 season. B.I.A.H has taken it's talents to Houston for the action and will provide you with adequate link-dumpage to prepare you for the Final Four. What we cannot do however, is prepare you for VCU or Butler winning the National Championship.

- In other NCAA post-season tourna,ment action, Oregon defeated Creighton in game 3 of the CBI thanks to a game-winning jumper from E.J. Singler. Rush the Court explains why this is significant

- Butler's mascot, Blue II is becoming a cult hero in Houston

- Eamonn Brennan briefs us on four underrated story lines from the final Four

- Seth Davis makes a case for and against each of the Final Four teams

- Jason Lisk provides some interesting insight on why basketball teams like VCU and Butler aren't the equivalent to football teams like Air Force and Northern Illinois

- Last season's Kentucky squad may have been more talented than this year's bunch, but talent will only take you so far. The 2011 roster is in the Final Four because the players checked their egos at the door, something last year's squad couldn't do

- The Nate Miles' recruiting saga has been getting a lot of publicity this week. It came out yesterday that Miles alleged that Jim Calhoun knew rules were being broken

- Speaking of violations, we have what may be the first Kelvin Sampson update in three years

- Tennessee-commit Chris Jones wants his release from the program immediately

- UCSB's Orlando Johnson, who was named the Big West Player of the year, will declare for the NBA draft

- Word on the street is that the Morris twins will hire an agent soon, thus declaring for the NBA Draft

- Oklahoma State's Darrell Williams is awaiting word from a judge if he should stand trial on felony charges that allege he inappropriately touched two women without their consent.

- Christian Laettner wants to become a college basketball coach

- After a lot of back-and-forth, UNLV's Lon Kruger has accepted the head coaching job at Oklahoma

- Young coaches are a hot commodity in the college hoops game. Every program in the country would be silly not to try and find the next diamond in the rough. Gary Parrish is puzzled as to why Cal-State Bakersfield went in the exact opposite direction

- Missouri State has named Purdue assistant Paul Lusk as their new head coach. The Bears former head coach, Cuonzo Martin took the job at Tennessee after Bruce Pearl was fired

- When Anthony Grant left VCU to take the head coaching position at Alabama, point guard Joey Rodrigueuz nearly transfered. But luckily for VCU Rodriguez stayed, believed in coach Shaka Smart, and well, as they say, the rest is history. Don't ever forget that VCU playin in the Final Four is a big deal

- St. John's assistant coach Mike Dunlap will consider applying for the Fresno State head coaching position

- The Butler coaching staff brought a small entourage of children with them to Houston

- Wether or not VCU deserved to be in the tournament can be debated until the end of time. Jay Bilas remains critical of the selection. If the selection committee used this method, VCU would never have left Richmond

- Your weekly NBA Draft stock report on players who competed in the NCAA Tournament

- A break down of all of Kansas' NCAA tournament mid-major upsets

- Due to the madness that took place this march, is a 96-team tournament on the horizon?

- The rosters for the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament have been released

- Fifty years of Final Four pictures

- One of the better April Fools Day-related hoops posts

- The top ten coaches to never coach in the Final Four

- Now this is my type of bracket: The coolest name tournament (Kinda upset they didn't contact me for this, seeing how I'm the foremost expert in college basketball etymology)