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Top job open: NC State, Penn, SMU, Manhattan, VCU

Andy Katz speculates that former OleMiss/ASU head coach Rob Evans is ideally suited for the SMU job.

My dark horse candidate for the NC State job: Davidson's Bob McKillop

Coaches salaries are taking a big jump again. The coaches should be thankful for Indiana ($1.3 million for Kelvin Sampson, $1.7m at Mark Few) but mostly NC State throwing $2+ million at Rick Barnes and John Calipari.

Is it too early to start thinking about the 2006-07 season? Maybe not! Andy Katz is drooling over the Florida-Kansas matchup in late Novemember in Vegas.

And more games we shall have - assuming the proposal is approved by the NCAA big-wigs. The conference tourney will not count against the number of games player. Teams will also get one more game (total of 28), and will be allowed to participate in one exempt tourney per year, instead of two in four years. This will bring the total to 28 regular season games, or 30-31 if they participate in a three-game (eg Maui, Alaska) or four-game (eg preseason NIT) exempt tourney. But you won't see Duke every year in the preseason NIT: This restriction is still in place: a team can only participate once in every four years in the same tourney

TV Reminder: The 2006 Roundball classic will air this Sunday on CSTV. If you miss it, do not worry. It will repeat a few more times on CSTV. This will be a two-hour edited tape-delayed game. Also on CSTV: A rerun of the 2005 Roundball classic on Saturday, and multiple replays of the 2005 Reebok Big time and Adidas ABCD camps on CSTV. The Jordan classic is the following week on ESPN2/ESPNU.

Classic games on TV: The 1989 Air Force - BYU game will air (as usual without commercials) on the BYUTV channel.

Gems from the Blog Visitors: "Is Quin Snyder married?"