Wednesday Morning Dump

- Reading this will make you respect Jorge Gutierrez a little bit more.

- In this week's edition of the Bubble Watch, Andy Glockner says San Diego State should be a #1-seed

- Pat Forde's Minutes is a weekly must-read (well at least it is once he finished up with the college football season)

- Joe Lunardi aka "Joey Brackets" explains how the Big East can get 11 teams into the NCAA tournament

- Rick Bozich believes we should just give Kemba Walker the John Wooden Award right now

- Rush The Court has a great-read on California's Jorge Gutierrez and his family back in the violent, drug-infested Mexican border-state of Chihuahua

- Chad Ford Updates us on on the stock market of potential NBA draftees

- John Gasaway details Illinois's erratic and somewhat nerve-wracking season thus far. Demetri McCamey may be the best Big-10 player not named Jared Sullinger, but the Illinois can't seem to find consistency

- Wes Rucker details the ending to the Tennessee/Georgia game. Brian Williams tipped in a Tobias Harris-miss as the clock expired. I bet Bruce Pearl was losing his mind when it happened.

- Kyle Whelliston takes a look at the progress of the teams who faced off in last season's national championship game and wonders what if Gordon Hayward's shot went in

- Matt Jones tells us about a new tournament forming in the Bahamas

- Former-Mississippi State captain, and Renardo Sidney TKO-victim Elgin Bailey will transfer to Southeast Louisiana. Bailey, a senior, will only be able to play one semester of basketball

- A nice piece done by Lost Letterman about the where-abouts of the 1996 Kentucky squad aka "The Untouchables"

- Jeff Eisenberg landed an interview with Duquesne head coach Ron Everhart.

- Memphis' Wesley Witherspoon will sit out two more games before being reinstated

- Reggie Moore may be reinstated soon as well.

- Freshman guard Bryce Jones has announced that he will transfer from Southern California. The issue at the forefront seems to be playing-time (go figure)

- BYU forward Chris Collinsworth will miss the rest of the season due to micro-fracture knee surgery

- A very interesting-read on how Hofstra's Charles Jenkins may have saved the UNC-Wilmington basketball program thanks to one possession in which he scored eight points

- A film session on the three different ways the Indiana Hoosiers put the ball in the basket en route to their first Big Ten victory against Michigan

- Bowling Green, doing big things

- Studies show that damn-near every athlete at Purdue is injuring their ACL

- Michigan State's resident high-flyer, Durrell Summers, was benched late in the Spartans overtime win over Northwestern over the weekend. Apparently it was due to his lack of enthusiasm. He didn't start against Illinois either. Add this one to the laundry list of personnel problems plaguing the Spartans this season

- Creighton freshman Doug McDermott (son of head coach Greg) is on pace to put his name in a bunch of record books

- Illinois debuted some new digs last night against Michigan State (They could be a bit more outrageous, but I like them)