Sunday, December 19, 2010

Monday Morning Dump

- Matt Norlander of College Hoops Journal writes his final post before heading to "the land of milk and honey" aka CBS sports

- Andy Katz took away 30 things from this weekend

- The Dominican Basketball Federation is eyeing coach John Calipari as their next head coach. (So, lets see: America has Coach K, Puerto Rico wants Rick Pitino and the D.R. wants John Calipari. What's next? Is Tom Izzo is going to coach the German team?

- Speaking of Coach Cal, he got ejected from the Kentucky/Mississippi Valley State game on Saturday night. The ref who tossed him has issued 12 technical fouls in just 26 games. Calipari said afterwards that he had never gotten ejected before, but he was wrong. This was his second career ejection

- Jason King had a fantastic article on the best of the non-BCS-conferences. Central Florida has come out of nowhere to become one of the hottest mid-majors in the country.

- Mike Miller compiled a solid cluster of quotables from the weekend of hoops

- In case you missed it, Arkansas and Texas A&M got into a scuffle during their game on Saturday. A late foul occurred simultaneously to the benches getting upo and onto the court for a TV timeout., No punches were thrown unfortunately (After all, there's nothing like a good ol' fashioned donnybrook)

- Jeff Goodman chimes in on Renardo Sydney's college debut. Goodman also issued his Memphis-less top-25 poll

- And will you look at that, six minutes after Goodman posts his top-25, Gary Parrish posts his

- It wasn't too long ago that we were writing off Gonzaga as a legitimate tournament team. Well, a big win over Baylor may have changed that. Hopefully it did.

- Vanderbilt's senior forward Joe Duffy explains why exam week sucks and why traveling during exam week sucks even more

- A long flight across the country gives Arizona time to reflect on where they have been, and where they can go

- Last week was the first time in the 90 year history of the San Diego State men's basketball program that they had been ranked. Now, just one week removed, they will be ranked in the top-10

- Members of the Horizon League had a solid weekend. Wednesday will be another big day for the Horizon League

- player power ratings for the Big East and Pac-10

- Try to list the remaining unbeaten teams. Forgot one? yeah, Cincinnati

- Dan Hanner explains what is ailing a couple of would-be/should-be contenders. Hanner also breaks down freshman effectiveness thus far

- A recap of Oakland's busy week, which included a marquee upset of nationally-ranked Tennessee, followed by tough loss to Michigan (This is really one of the better weekend recaps I've seen in a while)



- Iowa State's Clone Chronicles gives out it's first semester grades for Fred Hoiberg's club

- Syracuse freshman C.J. Fair missed practice on Sunday because of a tweaked ankle

- Well will you look at that? Holy Cross finally won a game. It must suck to be a Marist fan right now

- A weekend review of the Atlantic-10

- Move over "Free Enes" because there is a new viral movement about to take over the country

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