Friday Morning Dump

- The NCAA has finally decide to make some changes. Some of the changes will open up contact between coaches and recruits. Other changes will help the players financially, and some rules may keep UConn out of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Could this all lead towards a giant NCAA reformation?

- Sad, sad news out of College Station, Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy has been diagnosed with early stages of Parkinson's Disease

- A fantastic Q&A session with Julie Roe Lach, the NCAA Vice President of Enforcement

- You want to know how to make it to a Final-Four? Be really good in a certain number of specific statistical categories

- In case you missed it, Michael Beasley has been outted for receiving improper benefits. But as Gary Parrish explains, it's not just a Beasley-problem, it's a system-problem. This predicament raises a lot of questions, none of which have easy answers. Glen Logan chimes in on dirty recruiting

- Dana O'Neil examines whether or not one of the members of the group of elite young guards can lead their team to a National Championship. Speaking of point guards, Jay Williams tells us who he thinks are amongst the 12-best point guards in the country (Insiders Only)

- Part-2 of Eric Angevine's look at the All-Name Teams (For our 2011-2012 All-Name Teams, just go here)

- Mark Turgeon's job just got a whole lot more difficult. Star guard Pe'Shon Howard will be out three months due to a broken foot. It looks like sophomore Terrell Stoglin will have to carry the load

- Eamonn Brennan opens up this week's edition of The Hoops Mailbag

-Kansas' Thomas Robinson tweaked his knee in practice and will have to sit out a couple of days

- Really "ScoopMaster"? Do you really think any of us would be surprised if Butler made another deep tournament run?

- Arizona lost an exhibition game to Seattle Pacific. That can't be good, can it?

- Carmelo Anthony can't remember who the other starters for Syracuse were on the National Championship-winning team (and they say marijuana doesn't affect the memory.....)

- VCU and UNC-Wilmington, two CAA schools, are amongst the youngest teams in the country

- Ohio State was chosen by Big ten media and coaches as the favorites to win the conference

- Another year, another article about Stew Morrill and Utah State being the cream-of-the-crop in the WAC

- DePaul freshman Marcari Brooks has decided to transfer after being declared ineligible

- It's a shame we won't be able to see any of these games (Not on a stream, not on a live-blog or nothing)

- According to the SEC website, Missouri is en route

- This is the year Northwestern will finally make it to the NCAA tournament? Right?

- An excellent-read on the best-case and worst-case scenarios for the Minnesota Golden Gophers

- Jeff Goodman has some preseason thoughts about Cincinnati

- Bill Self and "Ladies Night". Not exactly four words I ever though I'd hear in the same sentence

- Wait, are you implying that people often forget that Eloy Vargas still plays for Kentucky? (With the word "plays" being used very loosely)

- The George Mason team has spent a lot of time during the preseason doing running. A lot of running

- If I didn't buy South Bend being in the "East", Do you really think you could make me believe South Bend is "on the Atlantic Coast"?

- American head coach Jeff Jones got a contract extension through the 2015-2016 season

- unfortunately for Seton Hall, Neither Aaron Cosby nor Haralds Karlis is Jeremy Hazell. But both freshman guards will do their best to point the Pirates in the right direction

- Andy Bottoms provides his preview of the SEC (Sweet Baby-Jesus! Anthony Davis is really ugly)

- Has Florida hit a rough-patch on the recruiting trails?

- it's like you can't even mention the word "Kentucky" without Big Blue Nation members thinking it's an insult (But I do admit that Kevin Stallings looks a lot like Kevin from "The Office")

- National Hoops Report examines the potential sleepers in the SEC

- Harrison Barnes didn't get his drivers license til this summer. Wow.

- Part-3 of Rush The Court's breakdown of the 68 must-watch non-conference games of 2011-2012

- UW-Milwaukee has got themselves some new unis

- Maybe Georgetown's trip to China was about goodwill after all.....

- Buzz Williams is an endless viral video

- Mark Titus is retiring Club Trillion, but only because he's going to work full-time for Grantland (#Sellout)