Weekend Dump

There are 143 D-I basketball games on the docket today. That seems like reason enough to provide a weekend dump.

- Joe Lunardi provides some updated Bracketology notes

- Chris Dobbertean provides his version of BubbleWatch

- Andy Glockner is mystified by Texas A&M this season

- Gary Parrish looks ahead at the weekend slate of games

- Seth Davis makes his picks for Saturday's games

- Eamonn Brennan provides us with some numbers we may need to know

- In his latest "3-pointers" column, Mike DeCourcy explains why Kendall Marshall needs to start for UNC

- A great-read on the dangers of social media and the concerns coaches have

- A 39-year-old Gulf War vet, also a freshman at DuPage Junior College, has dreams of playing D-I hoops

- For the first time in what will seem like forever, Arizona will have a sellout crowd for a home game

- I totally forgot that Tony Mitchell was still ineligible at Missouri

- I've seen articles on this subject before, but it's just such a compelling story: Bruce Pearl's involvement with the Deon Thomas recruiting scandal

- Oregon debuted their brand-new Matthew Knight Court on Thursday night. The pregame festivities were, um, very Oregon-like

- Former LSU coaching legend Dale Brown will return to Rupp Arena this weekend to see the Tigers take on the Kentucky Wildcats. Brown coached LSU from 1971-1997 and beat Kentucky 18 times during his tenure in Louisiana

- Cameron Ridley, the no. 5 player in the class of 2012, committed to Texas

- A solid preview of all the Big-12 action on Saturday

- A weekend preview of Mid-American Conference action

- Rush the Court checks in on the America East Conference, the Horizon League, Ivy League and the Southland Conference

Game Previews
- Butler at Detroit (Victory Firelight)

- Dayton at Xavier (Blackburn Review, Dana and Victory)

- Fordham at Charlotte (Green Tinted Glasses)

- Georgia State at George Mason (GMU Hoops)

- Georgetown at Rutgers (Casual Hoya, On the Banks)

- Illinois at Wisconsin (Hail to the Orange, Bucky's 5th Quarter)

- LSU at Kentucky (Wildcats Thunder Blog)

- Marquette at Louisville (Cracked Sidewalks)

- Maryland at Villanova (Testudo Times, VU Hoops)

- Michigan at Indiana (UM Hoops, Inside the Hall)

- Missouri at Texas A&M (Rock M Nation)

- North Carolina at Georgia Tech (From the Rumble Seat)

- Northwestern at Michigan State (Sippin' on Purple)

- Siena at Marist (Siena Saints Blog)

- Vanderbilt at Tennessee (Anchor of Gold)

- Wake Forest at Virginia Tech (Tech Hoops)