Wednesday Morning Dump

- Jeff Goodman wonders if Florida's Mike Rosario (Formerly of Rutgers) could lead the SEC in scoring next season

- Eamonn Brennan provides a fantastic look at a production-only mock lottery. If words like "upside", "potential" and "length" were stricken from the lexicon, this is probably what the 2011 NBA would look like

- In case you missed it, the recruiting world was hoodwinked by "Jonathan Paige" a so-called "recruiting expert" that spent the early summer tweeting and blogging about recruiting updates. This is the ultimate case-study in the false-sense of security the Internet provides

- Dick Vitale provides a list of his six super sleepers in the draft

- Matt Norlander explores the NBA success, or lack-there-of, of former-Dukies. Did you know that Danny Ferry is the only Blue Devil to play for coach-K who has also won a NBA Championship?

- Duke may have the best college ballers, but in terms of players making the transition to the pros, UCLA leads the nation


- We may be a good 10 months or so away from March Madness, but that doesn't mean we have to ignore Joe Lunardi. He briefs us on a couple of teams over the past four years that have let soft-scheduling burst their bubbles (Insiders Only)

- The Big East made more money on it's basketball that it did in football (Take that BCS supporters. That is, if there are any of you still left)

- For the fifth consecutive season, a Big-5 player will not be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft

- In case you didn't already know or care, John Calipari is not bothered by the NCAA's refusal to accept his 500 career wins

- UCLA took a risk by adding Atlanta Celtics AAU coach Korey McCray as an assistant coach this off-season. But so far, that risk has paid off, as the Bruins landed the 69th-best player in the class of 2012, Jordan Adams

- A Sea of Blue reexamines the one-and-done rule (If there is one outlet I don't mind writing about the never ending saga of the one-and-done rule, it's Sea of Blue)

- Some Big-Ten news and notes in easy-to-read link-form

- Former-Louisville big-man David Padgett has been named as an assistant coach at IUPUI

- Paul Lusk, the new head coach at Missouri State, spent part of his career as an assistant coach at Missouri-Southern (D-II), located in Joplin, Mo. It is because of his ties to the small city that Lusk is compelled to help the relief efforts

- Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar continues to be upset with the off-the-court actions of Venoy Overton

- Jeff Calhoun, a former UConn-benchwarmer and son to head coach Jim Calhoun, expects his father to return to Storrs for another season at the helm

- One of the responsibilities that comes along with being a head coach is addressing the media. Many coaches will host "Coaches Shows" on local TV or radio stations. But Chris Mooney, the head coach at Richmond, is going to co-host an entire radio show broadcast. It won't be a just 30-minute weekly "Chris Mooney Show" taping. Nope, this will be a full-fledged "discuss the NL East, the Vancouver Riots and the upcoming women's World Cup" radio show. But if there's a coach out there that I would love to hear open up about the world of sports, it's Mooney.

- Rutgers has a "master plan" to provide alternative revenue to the athletic department, and as Mike Vorkunov explains, it's all about the names

- The WAC tournament will return to Las Vegas in 2012 despite a relatively low turnout. But to be fair, the conference held it's tournament a week after the WCC held theirs in the same building, and the same week as the MWC held theirs just a few blocks away at the Thomas & Mack Center

- Two former-Providence Friars, Dickey Simpkins (of B.I.A.H POSTERIZED fame) and Sean Holley are starting a interesting business campaign in order to raise the profile of Providence basketball

- Jacob Tucker, the Illinois College (D-III) guard who shocked the world and won the 2011 NCAA Slam Dunk contest, was drafted by the Harlem Globtrotters (Of course he was)

- Jeff Eisenberg evaluates the top five prospects in each category for the upcoming NBA Draft

- Some Jayhawk-centric draft updates: Selby's stock is slipping, Morri stock is on the rise

- A "By the numbers" look at the big-man prospects in Thursday's draft

- NBADraft.net provides a handful of top-5 lists (Not too much detail, but is a must-read for list-enthusiasts)

- Oregon State's Roberto Nelson (of "Played Their Hearts out" fame) hit the greatest trick-shot in the history of Macedonia (Ahh of course, Macedonia, the basketball powerhouse of the Byzantine empire)


Yup, that's LSU coach Trent Johnson. Dude definitely doesn't lack enthusiasm.