Thursday Morning Dump

- Jimmer Fredette: The hype is real

- Purdue got blown out by Ohio State on Tuesday night. But Andy Katz believes the Boilermakers must regroup and keep their heads up

- Sport Illustrated's Paul Daugherty asks (and answers) the million-dollar-question: How do you stop OSU?

- Jeff Goodman believes tOSU is a different type of National Championship pick

- Seth Davis had a great-read about missing puzzle pieces of 12 tournament teams

- John Gasaway wonders if Texas can be trusted with such a high ranking

- Matt Norlander provides further evidence that Texas is in fact for real. Norlander also points out that SDSU's first loss of the season is a mere afterthought becuase of the environment it took place in

- Adam Zagoria reports on a touching story about Coach Kryzewski helping out the family of the Rutgers Director of Basketball Operations

- Rick Bozich says Louisville may not be the best team in the Big East, but they certainly have a lot of mojo

- Kyle Whelliston answer some mid-major reader mail

- Jimmer Fredette's brother, T.J., a budding rap artist, got on the mic before the game and pumped up the Marriott Center crowd. Speaking of Jimmer, his performance last night launched him into legendary status

- Former Missouri player Tony Mitchell will enroll at North Texas. Mitchell was a highlly-touted recruit but was deemed academically ineligible at Missouri. He would be able to get his eligibllity back if he served residence at a four-year institutuion, and may be able to suit up next season. An interesting twist to the circumstances

- Remember the name Bryce Jones? he's the USC guard who decided to trasnfer because of playing time. Well, word on the street is that he was going to be dismissed from the program if he didn't decide to leave

- Outside the Lines did a great peice on the plane crash ten years ago that took the lives of ten members of the Oklahoma State basketball program

- During rivalry week, coaches Lorenzo Romar and Ken Bone will put their friendship aside

- The Mountain West has decided to put expansionocalypse on hold and not add Utah State to their ranks

- How many games are the Marquette Golden Eagles going to let slip by?

- Robbie Hummel feels like his injuries have cost Purdue two Final Fours

- There has been a lot of talk about how good/bad the SEC is. To date, there is not team that is flat-out better than any other team. But watch out for Vanderbilt. They are starting to get healthy and starting to heat up

- Roy Williams apologized for lashing out at negative fans. But Eric Angevine seems to think Good Ol' Roy won't stop trashing people

- North Carolina State has some talent on their roster, but as a whole, they aren't very good. Is it possible to have a good squad but a bad team?

- Two good-reads on Duke's Nolan Smith

- Greivis Vasquez will get his banner raised in College Park at halftime of the NC-State game on February 20th

- Rumor has it that Dayton's Juwan Staten may be transfering

- Rupp Arena could be undergoing a face lift in the near future

- The Superdome is going to get some maintenance work done with the Final Four ahead

- Your daily look at some numbers you should probably know. Rush The Court provides more info behind the numbers

- Some interesting notes from the Syraucse/Seton Hall debacle on Tuesday night. Apparently, Dion Waiters has an attitude problem

- The ESPN BracketBusters match-ups are just around the corner, and George Mason want's to know who they will be playing

- With all the talent that Duke has on it's roster, is it possible that some of the payers, say, Andre Dawkins, are being underutilized?

- Rush The Court takes a peek inside the locker of Kentucky's Terrence Jones

- A look back at the epic collapse of the Missouri Tigers in 2004

- Lost Letterman put together a solid list of the ten best recruiters in college basketball. They also put together a "where are they now" for former Baylor head coach Dave Bliss. If you remember Bliss was the head cover who tried to cover up the murder of Patrick Dennehy

- Speaking of "where are they now" Arizona Desert Storm put together a solid list of former Wildcat ballers

- A solid Q&A session with former Xavier head coach Peter Gillen

- A kinda-funny letter to Jim Boeheim from the guy who wanted his $3 million back from UConn

Chandler Parsons hit a big three-pointer in Florida's Tuesday night double-OT win over Georgia and got a ball-tap for his services




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