Monday Morning Dump

Thank God Bizarro-basketball weekend is over with. My brain couldn't process all that tomfoolery. Seriously, the basketball gods seemed like they were messing with us on Saturday. This is going to be a recap-heavy dump for obvious reasons.

- Before we get to that, this Q-and-A between Jason King and Jimmer Fredette was quite entertaining.

- Dan Hanner has a succinct recap of all the mind-numbing action from Saturday

- Eamonn Brennan also recaps the head-scratching upsets and ridiculous overtime games from Saturday

- Rush The Court analyzed the storylines that were written on Saturday

- The quality is horrific, but here is video of Roscoe Smith's full-court heave with 10 seconds left on the clock. Watch the flight of the ball and let me know if you notice where it ends up:



- Jeff Eisenberg ranked the the ten biggest upsets from Saturday

- Former-Michigan player Rumeal Robinson has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail for financial fraud

- Brian Nash details Syracuse's first true road win on Jeff Goodman's blog

- Reggie Smith, a former Marquette guard who transfered after Christmas, has committed to UNLV. And Diamond Leung had a little bit of scoopage, as he says that Devoe Joseph will enroll at Oregon.

- Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhardt remains puzzled by the NCAA's decision on Enes Kanter

-= Speaking of Kentucky, they did not have a good weekend at all. Take a gander at a timeline of their brutal weekend

- Despite losing to Villanova and suffering their first loss of the season, the Cincinnati Bearcats remain the biggest mystery in the Big-East. But good teams learn from tough losses, and Cincinnati learned that nothing is going to be easy in the Big East

- Marshall gave Southern Mississippi the butt-whoopage of the weekend, running the Golden Eagles off the court 95-65. As the lead grew, the game started to get out of hand. Southern Miss coach Larry Eustachy was ejected and had to be escorted out by police

- Illinois is shooting at historic levels right now.

- Georgetown has lost three of their last four, with the lone win being against DePaul. The Hoyas are in a bad place right now. What is at the root of their problems?

- Scoring-machine Charles Jenkins isn't the only reason Hofstra is atop the CAA leaderboard. At 4-0, the Pride has overcome adversity on more than one occasion

- Tennessee keeps slipping and sliding. A loss against Arkansas has people wondering if a lineup change is on the horizon

- Cleveland State had a weekend they would probably like to forget

- La Salle got worked by Richmond on Saturday by 19. The Explorer's star player Aaric Murray was benched during the game, but head coach John Giannini thinks the benching will give his team a spark

- The Long Island Blackbirds have won four straight, all on the road, and look like true contenders to win the Northeast conference

- We should all be aware of UNC's point guard struggles. Well, Roy Williams is trying to fix it, at least in the long run. The Tar Heels got a commitment from Super 60 point guard Marcus Paige. He becomes the fifth player from Iowa to sign with Roy Williams (Raef LaFrentz, Nick Collison, Kirk Hinrich and Harrison Barnes)

- According to Jim Boeheim, Duke is still the best team in the country, with or without Kyrie Irving

- An ACC-centric recap of the weekend's action

- A nice conference breakdown on the Big-12