Tuesday Morning Dump

It's Tuesday, a.k.a. The day after The Day After, a.k.a Day Two. The flow of hoops-related news is likely to pick up as the week progresses, so stay tuned.

Yesterday, Rob Dauster provided his brief commentary on the significance of Obama bin Laden's murder, so today it's my turn.

Let's try to remember that what happened isn't the be-all-end-all. Yes it's a significant day in American history, and it will serve as a huge moral boost to citizens and military personel. But let's not forget that we have a lot of work left to do. People in Alabama are still trying to regroup and recover. The same goes for those in Japan. Terrorism will continue exist. Yes, we can embrace this and enjoy it, use this as a moment to reflect on those we lost on 9/11 and the ten years since that moment.

But let's not forget that we have a lot of work ahead of us.

Now, back to your regularly-scheduled programming.

- Rick Pitino lost a family member in the 9/11 attacks. Yesterday he responded to the news of Osama Bin Laden's assassination

- Jacob Pullen is concerned about the safety of homeland security following the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death

- The departure of Louisville assistant coach Tim Fuller is not having a good impact on the future of the Cardinals program. Highly-touted recruit Rodney Purvis has decided to decommit from Louisville and will open up his recruiting process again.

- Washington Post writer John Feinstein provides a great-read on the legacy left by Jim Larranaga at George Mason, and how Paul Hewitt must carry that burden. Eric Angevine notes that Hewitt is stuck in a "win-now" situation

- Jay Bilas takes issue with the removal of the early-entry deadline (Insiders Only)

- Jeff "Two Scoops" Goodman may leave Fox Sports for CBS and their stocked-cabinet of college basketball bloggers, reporters and columnists

- Within the past two weeks, Pitt's Ashton Gibbs has expressed his desire to stay in the NBA draft. But is is possible that the junior guard is having second thoughts?

- Matt Norlander is 50-50 on Brandon Knight's statement of being "50-50" on returning to Kentucky next season

- Former K-State guard Wally Judge enjoyed his visit to Maryland and has trimmed his list down to three

- Maryland senior Cliff Tucker has his doubts about teammate Jordan Williams return to College Park

- With Jim Larranaga at the helm of the program, Miami center Reggie Johnson continues to debate his draft options

- According to Adam Zagoria, George Mason-signee Corey Edwards may end up joining ex-GMU head coach Jim Larranaga at Miami

- Jay Larranaga, the son of the new Miami head coach, has turned down an offer from his father in order to stay on as an assistant coach with the Erie BayHawks of the NBA D-League

- George Mason introduced Paul Hewitt yesterday as the new head coach of the Patriot's basketball team. Despite just recently being formally introduced, he has already put in some work. He has already hired his first assistant coach as well as retained two GMU-recruits. Eamonn Brennan provides some insight on the CAA perspective of George Mason's hiring of Paul Hewitt

- Kentucky head coach John Calipari took some time out of his busy off-season to visit with some coal miners in the eastern part of the state

- Bucknell head coach Dave Paulsen received an extension from the university after leading the Bison to a Patriot League championship

- Former-Indiana player and assistant coach Stew Robinson has been named as an assistant coach at Illinois-Chicago

- Why should undeclared class of 2011 center Joseph Uchebo choose Charlotte over Kentucky, Wake Forest and Florida State? Green Tinted Glasses provides your answer

- Penn State spent their last availible scholarship on un-ranked JUCO point guard Matt Glover

- Marquette needs to fill three more spots on their non-conference schedule. Cracked Sidewalks provides some good information on the possible opponents

- Your meme-lede-headline-thingy-of-the-day, courtesy of Casual Hoya

- !!!New Club Trillion post!!! Titus on Osama. Need I say more?

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Hawaii head coach Gibb Arnold spent some time teaching incoming freshman how to surf


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