Monday Morning Dump

- Required reading on Marcus Denmon.

- Jason King does his weekly breakdown of everything mid-major

- Mike Miller notes that the return of NC State's Tracy Smith might not solve all the teams issues

- Mike DeCourcy previews the week ahead, including the start of Bruce Pearl's suspension

- The SEC West is bad. Like, really, really bad.

- Jeff Goodman updates us on his top-25

- Things got ugly towards the end of Memphis' 91-86 victory over Tennessee State. Jeff Eisenberg explains why this incident is a microcosm of the Tigers tumultuous season

- Western Kentucky freshman Brandon Peters has been declared academically ineligible. The point guard had averaged 6.5 ppg and 23 mpg. This leaves the Hilltoppers with only one scholarship guard, since junior Ken Brown was kicked off the team a month ago

- A look at conference player rankings for the Big-12 and the SEC

- Arizona State spoiled Oregon's plans on closing out their tenure at Mac Court with a win. What will happen to the famous arena now that it won't be used anymore?

- Kansas State's Wally Judge paid homage to Adrian Hillburn, the K-State wide receiver whose minimal touchdown celebration ended up costing the Wildcats the Pinstripe Bowl. Before every foul shot, Judge gave the same salute which Hillburn was flagged for

- St. Louis coach Rick Majerus suffered a deep gash on his left leg during his team's 69-61 loss to Bowling Green. Majerus collided with junior guard Paul Eckerle. Majerus tried to stop Eckerle from falling, and the cut opened up during the collision

- A solid preview of the Michigan State/Northwestern tilt tonight. The other marquee game tonight features Steve Lavin's St. Johns team hosting the Georgetown Hoyas in their Big East home opener

- A "Free Enes" supporter sent a letter to President Obama (Hey buddy, if you are going to write a letter to the President, try using spell-check)

- An interesting roundtable discussion on what the situation would be like if Enes Kanter had not decommitted from Washington

- The Sunday game between Nebraska and North Dakota was canceled due to a snowstorm. The game has been rescheduled for tonight

- Butler picked up a verbal commitment from 2012 combo guard Devontae Morgan. Get to know Mr. Morgan with a solid Q&A session

- We are still unsure when exactly DeAndre Daniels will make his college decision. But it should be soon. I hope.

- A great breakdown of what to expect from the Colonial Athletic Conference in 2011

- Ray Floriani updates Rush The Court on the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. RTC also checks-in on the Northeast Conference,the Ivy League, the Southern Conference, the Mid-American Conference and the Summit League

- Some interesting notes an analysis regarding UCLA's starting-five