Tuesday Morning Dump

- The breaking news story of the day features a possible NCAA investigation into the recruitment of Josh Selby. The story was originally broken by Kent Sterling. According to Sterling, the NCAA will be investigating all the schools who sought Selby's services (Kansas, UNC, Kentucky, and Kentucky). After all, it just wouldn't be a true NCAA investigation unless Kentucky was involved, and as always, the BBN media isn't too thrilled about these accusations. I'm no NCAA compliance officer, but if I were one, I'd certainly look at all the programs that recruited the individual in question, especially if one of the programs were coached by John "the C is for clean" Calipari. I just don't understand what the problem is?

- In other Kentucky-related news, highly-touted 2011 recruit DeAndre Daniels has decided to spend a year at prep school rather than head directly to Lexington. That's probably a smart choice, after all, have you seen how many players have been declared ineligible this year?

- UNLV got a verbal commitment from six-foot-six Israeli shooting guard Karem Mashour. The Rebels had already failed to sign Cory Joseph, Dwayne Polee Jr. and Jonathan Loyd. Looks like UNLV got a good roll of the dice.

- LSU suffered a huge blow as point guard Bo Spencer was declared academically ineligible. What's even worse for the Tigers is that Spencer will be leaving LSU all together, in favor of Big-Ten-bound Nebraska.

- Andy Katz thinks Chicago native Howard Moore has the proper credentials to take on the challenge of being a late-replacement head coach at Illinois-Chicago.

- I mentioned yesterday that the Michigan hoops team lost their first exhibition game oh their European tour. Well today we find out they lost again, this time, a 30-point drubbing to a Belgian pro team. And you think things couldn't get any worse, think again, because we also learned that a tour bus carrying the Wolverines team had the roof fall off. Clark Griswald ain't got nothing on Jon Beilein.

- Eamonn Brennan breaks down the best/worst case scenarios for all the teams in the SEC. This conference could have five or six representatives in the NCAA tournament if everything goes right. This is a big year for teams like Alabama, Georgia and Auburn. because this conference could also have only two or three tournament teams.

- Last year, Texas' problem was that they had too many players. Their problem this year might be that they don't have enough. First, DeAndre Daniels changed his mind about Texas, and now guard Varez Ward has decided to transfer to Auburn in order to be closer to his mother

- Rush The Court has all the latest recruiting rumors. Adam Zagoria reports that French-import Remi Barry will attend New Mexico State.; Zagoria is always the go-to-guy for east coast recruiting updates

- Pittsburgh adds fourth recruit to class of 2011. Six-foot-eleven Malcolm Gilbert verbally committed to joining Jamie Dixon's squad

- Virginia lands a much-needed top-100 recruit. Six-foot-four Malcolm Brogdon, ranked 66th overall by Maxpreps.com will be a good fit in Tony Bennett's system.

- A great-read on St. Louis' Brendan Kelly, a sleeper who could turn into a breakout star in '10-11

- Like Father, like son. According to some deleted twitter posts, it seems like Marcus Jordan got his B.M.F on in Las Vegas. Clearly, Marcus is unaware that "what happens in Vegas, doesn't get posted on twitter"

- Since Coach Kryzewski is in Turkey with Team USA, assistant coach Steve "Wojo" Wojciechowski is running the show for the time being. Mike Miller poses a rather excellent question: Would Wojo ever be a serious contender to replace Coach K when he retires? my answer: Only somebody with a name more difficult than Kryzewski could. Wojo definitely fits the bill.

- Hopefully it is corrected by now, but ESPN posted an article about Arizona-bound point guard Nick Johnson. The only problem is the headline read "Nick Johnson picks Kentucky". That must have been an auto-generated headline.

- Oregon cancels exhibition trip to Europe due to injuries (they probably saw what happened to Michigan)

- George Mason handed GMV Ghezzano a 70-point-drubbing, and were given pasta and other gifts in return. Italy must be the best place on Earth.
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