Friday Morning Dump

- Required Reading -- Luke Winn's Power Rankings

- Matt Jones ponders if now is the appropriate time to start taking Cincinnati seriously

- Andy Katz details the progress made by Harvard under coach Tommy Amaker

- Mike DeCourcy answers a handful of interesting questions, including why he left Jimmer Fredette off his midseason All-American team.

- Sad - A player for John Carroll died due to complications from a fall on New Year's

- This is so awesome -- John Henson got his car sticky-noted

- Jeff Goodman details the emotions displayed by Donnie Jones as his new team defeated his former team on Wednesday night

- Kwamain Mitchell has been readmitted to St. Louis. No word yet on whether he will be allowed back on the basketball team

- Kyle Whelliston briefly details the history of conference identification

- UNLV is eyeing a couple of transfers

- Oh jesus, not Karen Sypher again. Apparently she wants a new trial. (Just leave us alone already!)

- An inside the numbers look at the action from Wednesday night

- Jason King dishes on why the SEC East is so tough and the SEC West is so bad

- The Midseason top-30 list for the Wooden Award was released yesterday

- Jerry Tipton believes that Enes Kanter's case is more similar to the Derrick Rose's than Cam Newton's

- Ken Pomeroy has noticed that a couple of coaches don't give a damn about FG%

- Remember when Mmemphis was ranked 15th in the AP polls? Voters are probably kicking themselves for that one because Memphis is playing pretty awful right now

- Northwestern is running out of chances to make a statement to the selection committee that they belong in this year's NCAA tournament

- UTEP players are doing their best to rewrite the Conference-USA record books

- The Dayton Flyers won last season's N.I.T. They are hoping to use some of that post-season experience to carry them into the NCAA tournament this year

- A solid recap of Siena's non-conference schedule. The Saints went 3-7 but had losses to St. Bonaventure's, St. Joseph's and Albany

- Speaking of the dreary Northeast, Hoopville has a couple of good-reads on teams from damn-near-Canada

- If I told you that a team who lost to a D-III school a month ago, would now be at the top of their conference, would you believe me? What if I told you that team was Air Force?

- The Kentucky basketball team rebounded from last season's UK2.0K fiasco and got a cumulative 2.85GPA in the fall semester

- Anchor of Gold, the fantastic Vanderbilt blog is bringing back their great series, SEC's Worst Losses. With how bad the SEC is this season, you know the column is going to be good

- Bracketology predictions for the DMV schools (District, Maryland, Virginia)

- UNC's John Henson got Punk'd by his teammates. The sophomore forward had his SUV covered in sticky-notes by his Tar Heel teammates

- Maryland's Adrian Bowie was moved from the point guard position to the wing in favor of freshman Pe'Shon Howard and Terrell Stoglin. Initially upset, Bowie has become more effective from the wing and while his assists are down, so are his turnovers

- Kemba Walker could become the first BCS-conference player to win the scoring title since Purdue's Glenn Robinson won it in '93-'94

- Is Jim Boeheim better than your dad?