Thursday Morning Dump

- Fresh Luke Winn writing. I shouldn't even have to explain what it's about anymore. It's Luke Winn, so go read it

- Eric Crawford did some great work with the expenses of college hoops programs

-Grantland, the only place on the entire planet that can contain the egos of Bill Simmons and Matt Jones

- USA Today wrote 1,500 words on Billy Gillespie. You know you want to read it. But if you really don't want to read it, than read what Rick Bozich had to say about this article

- If you are a fan of advanced statistics and college basketball, then this post is absolutely for you

- Rush The Court thinks CBS's top-100 is stupid

- Coach-K thinks that it is entirely possibly that BCS-schools eventually break away from the NCAA

- Part-2 of Rush The Court's list of the 60 must-see non-conference games of 2011-2012

- Coaches spoke up about social media at CAA media day

- Big East media day was on Wednesday and the main story line was, yup, you guessed it.....Expansionocalypse

- The Big East blogger contingency share their preseason picks

- Rick Pitino is an idiot. There's really no other way to put it

- DePaul did not have a good week at all (Hey, that rhymes!)

- Sure, Mike Brey doesn't have the same type of Big East resume as Boeheim, Calhoun or Pitino. But there is no denying that he's among the conference's elite

- Ex-Wake Forest guard J.T. Terrell is transferring to USC. Terrell left school last month after he was arrested for driving while impaired.

- Matt Norlander had Jason King as a guest on his most recent podcast (Oh you mean the same Jason King we interviewed two weeks ago?......#aheadofschedule)

- If you saw any highlights from the various Midnight Madnesses last week, then you undoubtedly saw some video of Balyor's Pierre Jackson taking flight. Big-12 Hoops highlights the undersized aerial artist

- The Big Lead gives us some deets on ESPN"s slate of hoops coverage this season

- Michigan State's Derrick Nix has trimmed down significantly since last we saw him

- Penn State guard Jermaine Marhshall has been suspended indefinitely for violating team rules

- Well will you look at that: Butler is the favorite to win the Horizon League

- Part-1 of Glen Logan's preview of the 2011-2012 Kentucky Wildcats (We know that Kentucky fans have many options when it comes to reading about Wildcat hoops. But it is of our opinion that there is no better Kentucky writer than Glen Logan, and that's the truth)

- The Oregon Ducks are going to look a lot different this season, and it's not because Nike will make them a new uniform for every practice

- Former-Evansville head coach Jim Crews has been named an assistant coach at Saint Louis

- Jeff Eisenberg provides his preview on the West Coast Conference

- You know you want to learn more about the 2011-2012 season in the Ohio Valley Conference

- We know about Tyshawn Taylor and Thomas Robinson, but what about Elijah Johnson? Is this his year to break out?

- Mike Rutherford provides his list of the top-50 non-conference games of the season

- Rock M Nation recaps the last eight months for the Missouri basketball community

- Hammer and Rails pick the results of each of Purdue's games this season

- Is this the season Harvard breaks through to the NCAA tournament?

- Sam Duren from National Hoops Report projects the final standings in the Big-12

- Providence got (slightly) new jerseys

- Another year, another lack of Midnight Madness at Pittsburgh