Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Tuesday Morning Dump

Hope Everybody had a solid Memorial Day Weekend.

But it's time to get back at it.

- Mike DeCourcy provides a fantastic list of the teams that are on the verge of ending tournament droughts next season

- Jason King previews the top newcomers in non-BCS conferences

- The curious case of Kevin Ware seems to be over. The former-Tennessee recruit who then decommitted and signed with Central Florida before decommitting, has now committed to play for Rick Pitino and the Louisville Cardinals. Card Chronicle breaks down the saga and what this will mean for potential-transfer Juwan Staten

- Say what you will about John Calipari. But there is no denying that he is one of the most charitable college coaches in the country. Calipari was honored at the sixth annual Dick Vitale Gala, which raised $1.5 million in one night for the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research

- Justin Young delves into the subject of projecting international talent in the NBA. For every Tony Parker, Pau Gasol and Yao Ming, there is a Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Saer Sene, and Oleksiy Pecherov (And then there was Darko, but well, you all know how that went)

- Villanova By The Numbers has been killing it recently. They provide an excellent breakdown of post-deadline roster moves in the Big East


- Duquesne head coach Ron Everhardt, along with three other coaches, are set to interview for the Penn State job. What will life be like at Duquesne after Ron Everhardt leaves?

- Tennessee head coach Cuonzo Martin will attend the the Vols’ hearing before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The hearing is scheduled to take place in Indianapolis on June 10 and 11

- Former Connecticut assistant coach Patrick Sellers, who resigned in the wake of NCAA allegations of recruiting violations in 2010, will be named an assistant coach at Hofstra

- Former Arizona guard Damon Stoudamire will join the Memphis staff as an assistant coach

- Wisconsin-Green Bay will bring in a solid five-man recruiting class next season. But the biggest off-season move the Pheonix made was hiring Rick Lefebvre as their new strength and conditioning coach

- Former Kentucky forward Derrick Jasper is reportedly headed to Lubbock to join Billy Gillespie's staff at Texas Tech. Jasper played for Gillespie at Kentucky before transfering to UNLV. It was widely speculated that he left Kentucky because Gillespie had forced him to return from a serious injury before it was fully healed

- Siena scooped up a late 2011 addition in the form of five-foot-nine point guard Evan Hymes

- VCU got a verbal commitment from Class of 2012 power forward Mo Alie-Cox

- Utah State is graduating a hefty portion of their production. But luckily for the Aggies, they play in the WAC

- A 2011-2012 season preview on the LaSalle Explorers. Their biggest problem will be how they replace Aaric Murray, who was unquestionable the team's best player. But that's not the only difficult problem the Explorers will have

- A look at the potential frontcourt recruits being scouted by the Texas Longhorns

- A tribute to the much-improved 2010-2011 St. John's Red Storm

- A fantastic draft analysis on the athletic testing results

- A draft profile on Richmond's Justin Harper, Illinois' Demetri McCamey, Morehead State's Kenny Faried and Michigan's Darius Morris

- Is tOSU's Jon Diebler the next Kyle Korver?

- Another day, another mock draft


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