Friday Morning Dump

- Tremendous column in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on Antonio Burks, a former Tiger that was shot at a dice game that is now coaching.

- Great read from Jason King on Josh Selby and Enes Kanter and their pending eligibility as the season starts.

- Baylor barely snuck by Midwestern State in their exhibition on Friday. You know what isn't comforting? That the Bears, whose biggest question mark is at the point, had 23 turnovers. Against Midwestern State.

- Rollie Massimino springs another upset! This time, he led D-II Northwood to an exhibition win over Florida Atlantic. Little known fact -- I was born during Villanova's win over Georgetown in that 1985 title game.

- We've been saying it for a while -- LMU is really talented. Their problem? Scheduling. Its not all that likely they will be able to pull an at-large bid.

- Emmanuel Negedu played basketball again. That's pretty incredible, considering he was all but dead 13 months ago.

- If you don't know who Kenneth Faried is by now then I can't help you.

- Memphis will be counting on Wesley Witherspoon to provide some versatility.

- Pretty funny story about a player who couldn't get anyone to spell his name right.

- ESPN 3's college hoops schedule is out. There is a lot to like in here.

- Kansas City as the college basketball capital of the world? I think Tobacco Road would argue with that.

- Loved this line: "Lastly, maybe one of those fake baking, fake accent, too-small-T-shirt-wearing, fist pumping idiots from Jersey Shore could take our recruits out for "T-shirt time" and convince them SIUE is the place to be. They are about as relevant to athletics or the world in general as Kutcher."

- Loved this one too: "We sent recruiting mail out in color on plain white paper,
" McCaffery said. "If it was on letterhead it would have been legal. If it was in black and white on plain white paper it would have been legal. But since it was in color on plain white paper it was a violation and we self-reported. So that's the extent of my transgressions with the NCAA, but it gives you an idea of what we deal with. We called it the 'Color Paper Caper.'"