Friday Morning Dump

- Your must-read-of-the-day comes courtesy of Andy Katz. He details new Monmouth coach King Rice and his path to redemption. Rice, a former-UNC Tar Heel and former Vandertbilt assistant struggled with alcoholism in the past, but is ready to help the next generation face the problem head on

- Drew Lipsky of Yahoo Sports lists the ten Big-10 players with the best chances of getting drafted next season

- NCAA President Mark Emmert believes that his organization may in fact need some sweeping changes

- ESPN released it's schedule for "Big Monday", and seven of the ten Big XII conference teams will participate at least once

- Jeff Goodman tries to explain that Florida State is no longer an ACC also-ran (Ehh, I'll still need more convincing)

- Luke Winn details Tony Mitchell's journey to North Texas and the comeback he has in store for opponents

- Just because Isaiah Thomas isn't a Washington Husky any more doesn't mean he isn't still outspoken

- The University of Houston did an internal review and found no compliance issues linked with the late David Salinas, the financial planner and Houston booster who is alledged to scammed millions of dollars from college head coaches. However, some of these coaches may meet to discuss the possibillity of pooling funds together

As always, there are more links after the jump

- A two part series on the top sleepers in the 2012 NBA draft class

- This season the Bradfley Braves will return home to play a home game on-campus for the first time in 30 years

- Jabari Parker might be having the best summer season of any recruit in the country. Jeff Borzello, everybody's favorite yuppie top-sider, explains why Parker could be the next Oscar Roberston

- Justin Young previews the USA basketball team for the World University Games

- Ian Powers of Swish Nation recaps the Peach Jam and lists the players that stood out

- Rush The Court wonders what it would be like if Duke had a television network similar to what Texas is trying to get away with

- What's this? Derrick Williams is having second thoughts about leaving Arizona?

- after six eyars of hard work, Mic Cronin has finally brought a level of consistancy to the Cincinnati program. The Bearcats showed last season that they are a viable contender in the Big East, and will continue to climb the ladder this season

- Kansas State administrators want their school's brand to be more identifiable. What is more identifiable than a purple-andf-black color scheme and arena frequently referred to "The Octagon of Doom"?

- The University of Maryland's athletic department has found itself in financial trouble. Despit recieving large donationgs from Under Armour, the University lost roughly $10-million in 2009-2010, despite spending nearly $83-million

- With the graduation of turbulent point guard Demetri McCamey, Bruce Weber is hoping his Illini have a serious attitude adjustment

- Morehead State has announced the addition of three JuCo transfers (And one of them kinda sorta looks like Kenny Faried!)

- Jon Teitel put together a great Q&A session with Kenneth Lyons, the greatest player in North Texas basketball history

- Villanova freshman Tyrone Johnson will not join the Wildcats on their trip to Europe because a foot injury he suffered last month

- Apparently, there were some reporters out there that didn't know MarShon Brooks spelled his name with a capital "S" (Not us, we've been in the loop the whole time)

- I saw this on Wednesday, but maybe you didn't: Louisville is backing out of the 2012 Maui Invitational

- The Baylor Bears will join West Virginia, Saint Mary's, Missouri State, Bethune-Cookman, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Kennesaw State and Tennessee Tech in the 2011 Las Vegas Classic

- A Rush The Court summer update on the ACC

- A nice litte pirmer on Ed Cooley's return to Providence

- Anything related to ultimate frisbee automatically gets moved to the bottom of the dump

- Roy Williams adopted a highway?