Daily Grind - Tuesday

CHN 144 previews continues with Notre Dame and Loyola of Chicago.

InsideHoops digs into the Jamarcus Ellis commitment to Kelvin "Indiana" Sampson, Nate McMillan's son's commitment to even-keeled Sendek, Tony Barbee (and Milt Wagner's) move to UTEP, and Calipari's slow-motion search for new assistants (he also lost his director of basketball operations to Pepperdine). Speaking of Pepperdine, Vance Wahlberg is the head coach there, so there is a two-way pipeline it seems as Calipari assimilated the Vance Walhberg offense last year :-)

Speaking of Kelvin Sampson, he got a slap on the wrist by the coaches association. Once their fearless leader standing from a high moral ground and almost rivaling Coach K's smug cloud... He was put on a three-year probation and he lost his Final Four ticket priviledges (!) - as if he can't afford them :-)

TSN's DeCourcy dishes some more this week, predicting a breakout season for DePaul's Wilson Chandler (and I agree with him), an update on the new arena at Virginia, Northern Iowa updates, Providence coaching news, and 06-07 scoring at Miami.