Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Tuesday Morning Dump

- The highlight of your Tuesday morning: Gary Parrish's Poll Attacks. Parrish also takes a look back at the week that was in college hoop

- Andy Glockner provides his weekly Bracket Watch and Bubble Watch (These are must-read weekly watches)

- Speaking of Brackets, Dave Ommen provides his updated one. Joe Lunardi gives us the rundown on his brackets and tells us who the winners and losers were from the weekend

- Matt Norlander breaks down the eight contenders for that number-one spot

- Awesome story about how Charles Jenkins was tricked into thinking he was getting some bad news when his AD told him they were retiring his number.

- Seth Davis provides his weekly hoop thoughts. This week he discusses the "eye test" and the difficulty of selecting a mock bracket. Andy Staples, who took time out of his busy schedule of eating BBQ, tweeting about BBQ (I think Andy and I need to hang out more. Hey Staples, can I get an invite next time you head to Oklahoma Joe's? Saw that place on Man vs. Food. Beef tips = heaven!), and covering college football to help breakdown the NCAA Tournament committee's process.

- Eric Angevine handicaps the contenders for the head coaching gig at Wyoming and provides some notable quotables. Angevine also wonders which team will grab the four-seed in the ACC tournament?

- Andy Katz makes a handful of observations about the past week of hoops

- Coach K argues against the in-game interviews. I couldn't agree more.

- Yahoo Sports' Jerry Meyers opens up the reader mailbag and answers some questions regarding future one-and-dones as well as what the Terps can do to attract more talent to College Park

- It's Tuesday. which means Eamonn Brennan has released his weekly Poll Thoughts

- Asher Fusco provides an astute opinion on the Mid-Major top 25 rankings

- Jeff "Bro"zello breaks down the major bubble teams

- If you are an ESPN Insider, you may want to head over to Rumor Central and check out some of the newer posts they have published: Could Derrick Williams go #1 in the draft, the stock of ex-UCLA Drew Gordon is rising, and is St. Mary's out of the race to get an at-large bid?

- The Utah State Aggies won a bracket eliminator game on Saturday at St. Mary's. But does that mean the Aggies locked up an at-large bid? Kraig Williams isn't sure. Speaking of SMC, the Gaels have added a 31st game to their schedule in hopes of swaying the selection committee at the last second

- Utah coach Jim Boylen grabbed a seat-cooling win this weekend at New Mexico. With the University moving from the MWC to the Pac-12, and losing five players from the program in the off-season, there is a decent possibility that there is a different head coach next season

- An excellent recap of the Western-portion of the BracketBusters weekend

- The Mountain West Conference has been the talk of the town this season. But will the major-mid-major be able to get one of it's teams a #1-seed?

- No single play over the weekend was as controversial as Dwight Hardy's game-winning lay-up at the buzzer aginst Pittsburgh. Johnny Jungle compiled several videos of the play. Did he step out of bounds or didn't he? The world may never know

- For the first time since November of 2000, the St. John's Red Storm are in the AP Top-25. Dan Martin explains how they got there

- Have you thought about who could win the Big East Coach of the Year award? Notre Dame's Mike Brey, Louisville's Rick Pitino and St. John's Steve Lavin are all worthy candidates

- Not many teams in the country have a tougher end-of-season stretch than the Indiana Hoosiers. They still have to go play at Purdue, at Ohio State, at Wisconsin and at Illinois

- An interesting-read on former-Iowa coach Todd Lickliter. In his first interview since being fired back in March, the ex-skipper took the high-road about specifics regarding his dismissal

- The middle-part of the Big-Ten standings is one giant logjam. Take a look at what each team has ahead of them and what they can do to spread themselves out

- Despite having a forgettable season, Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo remains an upstanding citizen. The Detroit Free-Press reported that he helped a lady dig her car out of a snow-covered driveway

- Entering college, many believed Jon Deibler to be a stat-stuffing machine in college. But four years later, the marksman has gained many critics for his lack of stat-stuffing

- Kansas guard TyShawn Taylor has been suspended indefinitely by Bill Self for violating team rules. Matt Norlander briefs us on who can step up for the Jayhawks at the point guard position

- It is being reported that Virginia Tech freshman Jarell Eddie will play against Wake Forest on Tuesday despite being arrested last week for possession of marijuana. Eddie reportedly stated that the marijuana was "not his".

- St. Louis head coach Rick Majerus has had a rough year, but he hopes to return for another season as the head-Billiken

- Another week another Karen Sypher update. She was sentenced to 7 years in jail last week, but on Monday her lawyer filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. District court in Louisville

- Referees never get any respect. But the zebras work more days and travel more than just about anybody else in college basketball

- An entertaining-read on the proper etiquette to maintain while viewing a game from the press box

- The funniest thing you will read all day

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