Monday Night Hoops

Technically it is Tuesday, but who cares :-)

144 previews at CHN continue with Fresno State and Western Kentucky

Day 5 at the Pitino blog, and the PHD attitude is back, Pitino is gushing about the effort level and the improvement of individual players. Pitino also mini-interviews David Padgett and Brandon Jenkins (!) and both talk in detail about their injuries. Pitino is now looking at a possible big line-up, with Palacios at the 3 and T-Will at the 2. The point guard position looks like a battle between McGee and Edgar Sosa. Derrick Caracter's weight today: 296. For details on each of the above topics and a whole lot more visit the Pitino blog!

Hoopville talks a new $2.5 million practice facility for the Tennessee basketball teams.

Andy Katz will be back on Friday Sept 1st with his semi-free blog.

CSTV Daily News has a handful of new news: Lamar Robertson is transfering from Houston to UNLV, often-injured A. Thierro of Memphis takes advantage of the new "graduate free agent" rule and will play this new season (06-07) for the new hyper-active coach at Dusquene. This opens up one scholarship for Calipari for this season (Jeremy Hunt?) Northwestern got some good news as Ivan Tolic has recovered and will play this new season.

This edition of DeCourcy's Inside Dish talks about Greg Oden's injury (a popular topic it will become in the upcoming weeks), Padgett's injury (this one seems to be more in check), and musings about TeamCanada and lame-duck-status of Ricardo Patton at Colorada.

Rick Pitino coaching in an ancient arena? Not for long. Louisville will move into a new 22,000 modern arena by 2010-11. Goodbye historic Freedom Hall!

The NCAA Field may have not grown to 128 this year, but the Bracket Buster Field will grow to 102 in 2007. The matchups will be announced January 29 in case you want to mark you calendars :)

The mailbag is a popular online feature and Andrew Skwara of Rivals opens his and finds it full of Big East questions.

One more transfers out of SMU leaving headcase coach with seven available scholarships.