Thursday Morning Dump

It's gameday folks. I hope you have been preping all week.

this is the Sweet Sixteen we are talking about.

If you take a day off (Kansas, Wisconsin, Villanova), someone will steal your place in line (Northern Iowa, Cornell, St. Marys).

Will it happen again?

I can't answer that question, but I can give you the links to the best college hoops knowledge of the past 24 hours.

- The best frontcourts and backcourts in the Sweet Sixteen

- Reasons why the underdogs have a chance in the Sweet Sixteen

- Gary Parrish examines the role transfers have played on teams in the Sweet Sixteen

- A look at the "real" numbers for the Sweet Sixteen

- I hope the BCS selection Committee was watching CBS this past weekend

- Luke Winn on how a new rule could benefit Kentucky (I was under the impression that they didn't need anymore help)

- Is the media stereotyping Cornell?

- I am turning to Pat Forde for all my Sweet Sixteen picks

- I've been told that if you want the real lo-down on coaching rumors, Jeff Goodman is your guy

- Adam Zagoria explains how Brian Williams has changed since New Years Eve

- Kyle Whelliston wrote a scholarly report on Butler (seriously, I thought I was reading a analytical essay analyzing good and evil in "MacBeth")

- The old addage fits Syracuse perfectly: defense wins (will win) championships

- After all these years it is hard to still consider Xavier a mid-major

- You might wanna keep this on the back-burner (things could get interesting)

- For the Wildcats, Syracuse, New York is a long way from home

- West Virginia's backcourt is as thin as honey-baked ham

- Hofstra coach Tom Pecora is scheduled to meet with Fordham officials

- UTEP head coach leaves in favor of Auburn

- Coach Calipari is leading the social networking revolution

- You won't find a more fiery, intense, borderline-insane sideline general than Frank Martin; Nobody could have predicted the impact Martin has had on the KSU program

- I would hope to god that Cornell wants to keep Donahue as their head coach

- Oklahoma freshman Tommy Mason-Griffin is going pro, but it aint not cuz he cant read good; Sooners need to figure out what they are going to do

- Kyle Singler is battled-tested and ready for the Sweet Sixteen

- A must-read article chronicling Ali Farokhmanesh's rise to fame (unfortunatly, there is no mention of "The Sultan of Swish")

- Don't expect to see Arinze Onuaku on the court today

- You really aught to know more about Moses Abraham