Tuesday Morning Dump

- Obviously, the news of the day is that TCU will be joining the Big East, despite having no ties to the east whatsoever. Luke Winn explains why this move won't help college basketball at all. Mike DeCourcy says that adding TCU won't change anything. But isn't that kinda like saying "if it's not broke, don't fix it"? Rick Bozich has an interesting take on the whole situation. It's more football-oriented, but isn't the TCU move football-oriented to begin with? I don't agree with Bozich at all. The type of suggestion he makes is what is wrong with college sports (really all sports in general) today. There is too much off-the-field tinkering. The question people are asking, did Jamie Dixon make this happen?

- The U.S. News and World Report issued a list of the top-10 colleges for college basketball fans

- Prior to the start of the season, many hoops writers and analysts believed the Big East would have a down year. Well, I guess they were wrong, because the Big East is home to six teams that won preseason tournaments

- The ByLawBlog's John Infante takes a look at how changes to facebook could change recruiting rules. Eamonn Brennan responds to it.

- Gary Parrish, as he does every Monday, with his poll attack column

- By helping TCU get an automatic BCS-Bowl bid, the school is essentially throwing the basketball team to the dogs

- Both Ken Pomeroy and John Gasaway previewed the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. We did too, but you probably already read that

- Diamond Leung interviewed Oklahoma State's Keaton Page. The under-sized sharp-shooter had 29 points in the Cowboys victory over Murray State. I love watching this kid play. He doesn't have the body of a D-1 player, but the kid can ball.

- Ronald Nored may miss the national championship game rematch.

- Kyle Whelliston of The Mid-Majority recaps the holiday weekend

- According to the KenPom rankings, Duke isn't the number-one team in the country

- A bunch of hoops pundits had Colorado as a sexy pick to make waves in their final season in the Big-12. But apparently Harvard was having none of that

- Sad news out of Lexington today, as Donna Calipari, the mother of Kentucky head coach John Calipari, lost he battle with with cancer. She was diagnosed in May and passed away just six short months later. Our deepest prayers and condolensces go out to the entire Calipari family

- This is obviously not the start Butler coach Brad Stevens predicted his team would have. But what's done is done, and they have to 'right the ship' and move forward

- Kansas defeated Arizona this past weekend in Las Vegas, but despite the loss, Wildcat fans remain optimistic

- If you are a fan of Patriot League hoops, this wasn't the best weekend for you

- Storming the Floor has a new logo for the Big East aka, The Big Eastern-kinda-Southern-sorta-Midwestern-and-now-Southwestern-Conference

- A NBA draft scouting report on two of the better guards in the country: Demetri McCamey and Ashton Gibbs