Tuesday Morning Dump: Long Weekend Edition

We're still allowed to love America on the 5th, right?

OK, good.

- Jason King get's festive with his 2011-2012 All-Frecracker Team

- John Calipari wants all locked out Kentucky alumni to know that Rupp Arena is always open for them. But as Sea of Blue eloquently explains, there may be some NCAA implications. Speaking of Kentucky, who would you put on their Mount Rushmore? (NOTE: The Mount Rushmore debate for every team, league, position or sport is a instant conversation starter. Great for awkward moments at social gatherings.)

- The twitter chess-match between Kyrie Irving and "Miss Hawaii" continues. Irving has now filed a police report against the attention whore video vixen. If you are wondering why we are discussing this at all, just click here

- Adam Zagoria wants to know where Sonny Vaccaro is

- Jason King breaks down the cream of the crop of top returning defenders

- Miami big-man Reggie Johnson did not have a good 4th of July. The dominant sophomore center decided against entering the NBA draft and was thought to have made a good decision in doing so. But a torn ACL and reconstructive surgery will put him on the shelf for 5-6 months

- Former-Vanderbilt forward Andre Walker has decided to transfer to Xavier. Walker graduated from the SEC school in May and has one year of eligibility left. He tore his ACL during the early part of the2008-2009 season, and received an injury red shirt year.


- Gary Parrish's "Five for the Weekend"

- The achievments of Lorenzo Charles are remembered by anybody who has seen the clip, and that included President Obama

- Part-III of Curtis Kitchen's profile piece on Kansas State head coach "Generalissimo" Frank Martin (Note: I just came up with that nickname, but it's perfect. People, let's make sure this one catches on)

- With a plethora of incoming freshman, You would think that St. John's road back to the Big Dance would be easy. But that doesn't seem to be the case

- Bill Self wants to nix the "one and done" rule

- Kansas' Thomas Robinson believes his former teammates Marcus and Markeiff Morris should have been drafted earlier

- Jon Diebler on why he like's taking 3-pointers: Three is more than two. So why waste time shooting anything but three-pointers? (He clearly is a graduate of the "Mark Titus School of Fundamentals")

- Former-Kentucyk star Tony Delk has been named as an assistant coach at New Mexico State

- Blogger So Dear explains the risk involved with hiring Jeff Nix as the Director of Basketball Operations at Wake Forest

- Former-Indiana forward Bobby Capobianco is transferring to Valparaiso

- The top-ten things to like about the July recruiting period

- A great list of NCAA-certified recruiting events that take place this month

- Justin Young provides a pretty cool list of ten college basketball books you should take to the beach this summer

- Should Shabazz Napier come off the bench for UConn next season? Statistics prove that he may be mroe effective if he didn't get his name called during player introductions

- Former-Morehead State star Bob McCann passed away over the weekend

- Have you ever wondered why Phil "Flip" Pressey didn't follow clsoe family-friend Mike Anderson to Arkansas when the coach switched schools? Mike Miller has your answer

- A rough look at what Louisville's schedule will look like next season

- The 2012 draft is a year away and there might not even be a season in 2011, yet there are five pressing questions about the next draft class

- A quick list of the four best homecourt advantages in college basketball (I am sorry, but if a list like this ignores the Smith Spectrum at USU, I must ignore this list)