Wednesday Morning Dump

- It's OK if you haven't been keeping up-to-date on the off-season recruiting moves because Rush The Court will catch you up to speed

- Luke Winn chimes in on the late off-season ACC coaching carousel

- NCAA Mark Emmert summons his inner-Roger Goddell; wants harsh penalties for rule-breakers

- Gus Johnson is taking his talents to Fox Sports, and it;s not just for football. Gus-Jeezy will be able to flex his pipes for the network during the Pac-12 conference basketball tournament. He will also continue to work for the Big-Ten Network and will call 30 games next season. A great-read on the end of the paradox of Gus Johnson. Every Month Should Be March pens their ode to Gus Johnson

- Take a look at some of the stats of the ACC head coaching ranks (Interesting stuff). There are five coaches with 20 or more years of head coaching experience and five coaches with under ten years

- A fantastic-read on how you determine the precise offensive value of every player to your team. Would it surprise you if I (or Cracked Sidewalks for that matter) told you that Wisconsin's Jordan Taylor was the most valuable player to his team last season?

- Now that Maryland has found their new head coach, it's time for Texas A&M's coaching search to begin. The Aggies targeted Memphis' Josh Pastner, but the boy-wonder quickly rebuffed their offer. Jeff Goodman says the time is now for Texas A&M to show if they want to be a major player or not

More and more links after the jump

- A great-read from Brendan Prunty on the tragedy that has struck the Rutgers basketball program

- After heavy protesting and posturing, it looks like UCLA students are getting their sideline seats back

- Arizona sophomore guard Corey Hawkins has decided to transfer from the school. Hawkins had to potential to start for the Sun Devils this upcoming season and his departure came as somewhat of a surprise

- Christian Salecich, a sophomore guard for St. Louis, will transfer to Missouri Southern (D-II). The Australian import started 31 games his freshman year but started only four last season

- In roughly 1000 words, Matt Jones tells us why Scotty Hopson made a huge mistake

- Zac Bohannon, the brother of former-Badger Jason Bohannon, will transfer from Air Force to Wisconsin

- Xaiver has extended the contract of head coach Chris Mack until the 2018 season, signifying that the university has full support of the head coach

- Jason King put together a pretty-solid Q&A session with new George Mason head coach Paul Hewitt

- St. John's will present Hall-of-Fame coach Lou Carnasecca with the St. Vincent De Paul medal for service at Saturday's commencement

- After turning down the Maryland job, Villanova's Jay Wright addressed how he can change the Wildcats recent string of late season collapses

- Sean Miller turned down the Maryland job in order to continue to revive the Arizona program. Wildcats fans must be happy to hear that Miller is "sticking around for the long haul"

- Mark Turgeon has been on the job for less than 60 hours, and he is already eyeing up recruits. Terp fans are know to be quite the rebeluous group. Are they willing to give Turgeon a chance?

- Billy Donovan is losing a chunk of players to graduation and has revamped his entire coaching staff. What lies on the horizon for the Gators?

- Vermont has named assistant coach John Becker as the program's interim head coach. Last week, Mike Lonergan left to take the head coaching job at George Washington. Becker spent four years as an assistant on Lonergan's staff

- The Oklahoma Board of Regents is going to vote on Lon Kruger's contact

- Cuonzo Martin got a huge commitment yesterday as six-foot-nine center Yemi Mankajuola announced his intentions to play for the Vols

- Trevor Lacey will announce his college decision on May 18th and will choose between Kansas, Kentucky, Alabama and Auburn

- A nice breakdown of the recruits being targeted by new George Mason head coach Paul Hewitt

- With the return of Jared Sullinger, William Buford and Aaron Craft, we can probably expect tOSU to be in and around the top five most of the season

- A look at St. John's ridiculously-loaded 2011 recruiting class (I know you've probably seen posts like this before, but I mean, damn, this is just silly-good)

- Former-Louisville-commit Rodney Purvis has announced that his short list no longer includes the Cardinals program

- Bioled Sports offeres up their ideas on how to solve the running list of problems with the NBA

- A solid list of the guys still in the NAB draft who you have never heard of

- Josh "Jorts" Harrellson continued his "Jorts Tour" in Hazard, KY; visited a local school to play hops with the kids (Harrellson is quickly making his way to the top of the "Good-guys in college hoops" list)

- Kansas players (And Bill Self) boogie down to disco music in order to raise money for Self's charitable foundation