Monday Morning Dump

- YOur must-read of the weekend comes from Mike DeCourcy of the Sporting News, who rips the Tennessee Athletics Department for their handling of everything Bruce Pearl.

- Gary Parrish gives you his best big men in the country.

- The father of Tobias Harris, Tennessee's star recruit, backs Bruce Pearl.

- The key to Ohio State's season just might be the kid that this whole Bruce Pearl fiasco is centered around -- Aaron Craft.

- Andy Katz takes a look at how Purdue will go about trying to replace Robbie Hummel.

- In case you weren't following along with Jeff Goodman's cross-country trip the last week, here is a nice video recap for you.

- I've seen multiple people propose this idea in regards to the July recruiting period -- reduce it from the two 10-days sessions, but allow coaches to go out and recruit another time during the offseason. (Like, I don't know, maybe April...)

- Playing with the numbers of coaching longevity.

- One of the crazier stories I've seen in a while. Point guard Ryan Boatright committed to West Virginia last week only to decommit on Friday after Jabarie Hinds, another talented point guard, made the decision to commit to the Mountaineers.

- In an effort to raise their conference RPI, the Sun Belt is demanding that member teams play every non-conference game against the RPI top-150 and do their best to boost attendance above 5,000 per game.

Youtube Cribs -- Oklahoma State's locker room. Its pretty nice...



Adam Zagoria asked some of the best players in the Big East who they thought the best player was. I loved Austin Freeman's answer.