Thursday Morning Dump

- John Gasaway provides a fantastic-read on the myths surround Jim Boeheim's vaunted 2-3 Zone (Subscribers Only)

- Gueredwich Montimere is going to prison for 3 years (this may be the last time we hear about Jerry Joseph for a while, so PLEASE, make sure you get caught up what could go down as "the most bizarre news story in the history of basketball")

- UCLA senior Jerime Anderson was indefinitely suspended by the University after he was arrested in connection to a laptop theft (CBball players sure do love stolen laptops, huh? Marcus Williams anybody?). Now that Anderson is out, Lazeric Jones will have to step up. UCLA sure has had an up-and-down off-season

- Former UNC-Charlotte star Rodney White was arrested and accused of growing marijuana plants in his North Carolina home (#dank). White is considered to be one of the biggest draft busts in the past decade. He was drafted ninth overall in 2011 by the Detroit Pistons, but was out of the League by 2005

- Former-Duke guard Nolan Smith got ejected from an AAU game last night

- Tennessee believes that some of the violations brought against the university should be considered secondary instead of major

- Washington's Terrence Ross is on the verge of having a superstar sophomore season

- The field for the 2012 Maui Invitational was officially released yesterday

- Every Month Should Be March ranks the pre-season tournaments (Great stuff if you are tired of reading about recruiting mumbo-jumbo, which I know you are)

- A team of former-Kentucky NBA players will take on the Dominican Republic National basketball team, coached by John Calipari, on August 15th at Rupp Arena (Hmm, I wonder if any recruits will be in Lexington on 8/15....)

- The NCAA may need to tweak some of the "First Four" Logistics

- I think Gary Parrish just called Jim Calhoun "an enabler". Check out The UConn Blog for more on this subject

- Mike DeCourcy briefs us on the plethora of big men in the Class of 2012

- Baylor freshman Quincy Miller is about 80-85% ready to be able to lace up the sneakers. The 6-foot-9 phenom suffered an ACL tear back in December but will be a key member of a stacked Bears lineup

- Wichita State is ramping up their non-conference schedule in the hopes of avoiding another tournament snub

- You probably heard rumors about Utah State heading to the Mountain West Conference. WAC commissioner Karl Benson squashed any and all rumors

- Inside the Hall put together a solid timeline documenting the program's impressive recruiting streak

- The Louisville Cardinals won the Big East Conference's award for academic excellence

- Is Draymond Green really the 14th best returning player in the country? Methinks not, but I wouldn't dare tell The Only Colors that

- Who will be Kentucky's "X-Factor" next season? (+100 for the WWE Titantron reference)

- Take a gander at the non-conference schedule for Penn State

- Here is what Dayton's non-conference schedule looks like

- Minnesota's Rodney Williams is one of the top-5 best dunkers in the country. Big Ten Powerhouse wants to know what his best dunk from last season was

- A Rush The Court summer update on "The Most Entertaining Conference In the Country" a.k.a. the Missouri Valley Conference

- The Pac-12 TV network will consist of seven channels and every men's conference basketball game will be nationally televised

- A 2011-2012 team preview on the DePaul Blue Demons

- Eamonn Brennan stepped away from the keyboard and put together a video on the top seniors in the country (Where the hell was he filming this at? a patio bar-b-que?)