Friday Morning Dump

- Luke Winn's power rankings. Need I say more?

- Another great-read on the decommitment of Ricardo Ledo from Providence. It seems like Ledo would be best served to go somewhere outside Rhode Island

- Jason King wrote an interesting piece trying to define "basketball IQ"

- A solid list of sleeper-picks for the first-round upsets, the Sweet Sixteen, and the Final Four

- Northern Iowa's Lucas O'Rear, owner of the best beard in college hoops, will miss the rest of the season after fracturing his right ankle (O'Rear was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds and is suppose to join the farm system after the college basketball season ends)

- Eamonn Brennan details the first encounter between Isaiah Thomas and Isaiah Thomas

- Adam Zagoria updates us on the recruitment process for DeAndre Daniels

- Jeff Eisenberg provides two fantastic-yet-obscure hoops notes: nobody showed up at the Samford game, and two Kansas womens athletic teams spoof the Jayhawks basketball squad using puppetry

- Gary Parrish provides his insight on the Michigan State downward spiral

- Penn State's Jeff brooks, the team's leading rebounder is still day-to-day following a disloacted shoulder injury he suffered on Tuesday night. It is still unclear if he will be able to play against Michigan on Sunday

- Pitt's Dante Taylor banged knees with a teammate at practice on Tuesday and his status is unknown for the Panthers next game

- Bruce Pearl in tears?

- Rhode Island news -- Billy Baron has left UVa and will be returning to URI to play for his dad

- Michigan and Ohio State played last night, and beforehand, Lost Letterman took a look-back at one-of if-not-the most popular (and swaggerific) basketball uniforms of all time

- The guys at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective have put together the 2011 free-throw plus standings and rankings. You can read more on these stats at College Hoops Journal

- A fantastic-read on why/how Missouri has such vastly-different results playing on the road

- A solid compilation of links about the media writing-off Michigan State. Speaking of MSU, did you know that it's been exactly one month since the Spartans won a game in regulation?

- If you want to knock the selection committee for leaving a team out, that's fine and dandy, but you should probably read this first