Friday Morning Dump

- Luke Winn's power rankings are a must-read as always

- Adam Zagoria's piece on a Rutgers assistant is a great read as well.

- Les Carpenter wrote a touching story on La Roche College, whose coach died earlier this season

- Yesterday was the ten year anniversary of the plane crash that killed ten members of the Oklahoma State basketball program. Brett McMurphy and Tom Friend both wrote tear-jerking pieces on it.

- Jeff Borzello breaks down the mid-major conferences and the potential number of tournament bids they may receive

- Matt Jones provides a breakdown of the five teams he believes are locks for national title contendership

- Gary Parrish has seen a lot of good basketball teams play this season

- Jeff Goodman provides his observations from JimmerFest 2011, and explains just how good this kid is (If you didn't already know)

- John Gasaway wants to introduce us to Duquesne, also known as "the other Pittsburgh team"

- Apparently NBA scouts differ on their analysis of Jimmer Fredette's potential

- The good people over at Yahoo's The Dagger caught up with Tamir Goodman aka The Jewish Jordan (Holy crap, I totally remember this guy. He was a cult icon back when I was in high school in the DC/MD area)

- Harrison Barnes finally came through in the clutch for the Tar Heels, hitting two big shots down the stretch, including the game-winner against Miami. Ryan Greene wonders if the young superstar can build off of this momentum

- Matt Jones touches on the future of Rupp Arena. The school officials want to do one thing, and the new mayor of Lexington wants to do the exact opposite

- A great series is being done by College Basketball Talk about former rising-stars who never quite rose, conference-by-conference

- What do West Vriginia and Michigan State have in common? Both teams were in last season's Final Four and both are falling off the face of the Earth

- The chatter has died down in recent weeks regarding the UW rape case, but it isn't going away, it's just still in the reviewing process

- Being a former soccer hooligan, I have no problem with aggressive heckling form student sections, except if they are getting on opposing coaches. ECU students starting heckling Southern Miss head coach Larry Eustachy because of a alcohol-related incident involving Eustachy and some college students eight years ago

- A primer for Saturday's Big East battle between Villanova and Georgetown

- Speaking of Georgetown, reserve forward Aaron Bowen is out for the year after undergoing surgery on his shooting shoulder

- In the Big East, it's hard to have a quick turn-around season. That is something Seton Hall fans need to understand

- Searching for Billy Edelin tries to explain exactly who Marshon Brooks is

- !!!New Club Trillion post!!! Titus thinks this is the best post ever

- Cal's Jorge Guttierez had his life shaped by a treacherous voyage from the rough streets of Mexico

- A quick update on the status of suspended Villanova freshman JayVaughn Pinkston

- There are a couple of interesting games taking place in the Atlantic-10 this weekend. Most notably, undefeated Xavier travels to Richmond to take on the 5-1 Spiders

- What is the status of the Northwestern basketball team? Are they underachieving or did we overvalue their talent?

- Speaking of Northwestern, John Shurna, their star-player, got a concussion during their game on Wednesday against Minnesota and is still suffering from some of the symptoms. He may not play against Ohio State

- Gary Williams believes his team needs to come together and unite

- Former-Pittsburgh Steeler coach Bill Cowher talks college basketball, and even has some words of advice for Roy Williams

- Arizona head coach Sean Miller gives the 'Zona Zoo some tips on how to be loud and rowdy

- Georgia suffered a tough loss to Florida in double-OT on Wednesday night. This is just another example of the mediocrity of Georgia's basketball program

- A former-Kansas official has admitted to conspiracy as part of a university ticket scam

- A solid-read on Rod Moore the athletic trainer at Valparaiso. The lives of athletic trainers usually go unnoticed, but they do deserve recognition for all the hard work they put in

- Four takeaways from Thursday night including Kenny Faried's duel-23s and a late-night buzzer-beater

- Rush The Court checks in on the Western Athletic Conference and the Pacific-10 Conference

- An interesting read on why the Cleveland Cavaliers should not draft Jared Sullinger

- Oregon State picked up a commitment from a 6'10" center in the class of 2012

- It's an interesting question that will become discussed more and more in the next year or so: Can Kentucky continue to reload and still be successful?

- Lost Letterman put together a pretty solid informational review on future-Memphis Tiger Adonis Thomas. L-L also takes a look at the old K-State "two-toned" jerseys. (I love me a good-peice on uniforms)

- A solid Q&A session with two solid CAA coaches: Hofstra's Mo Cassara and VCU's Shaka Smart

- Some updated scouting reports on a handful of standout pro prospects

- I know this is a couple days late, and I passed on it then, but I realized I just can't p[ass on links I don't think are interesting: The Govenor of Indiana would rather watch his Boilermakers get smacked by 20+ than watch the President speak

- I don't think I've ever seen graffiti quite like this

- A hilarious photo of Ryan Kelly that doesn't help fight the raging Duke stereotype