Monday Night Hoops

ABC Sports presented a one-hour basketball special called "Who's Got Game" hosted by James Worthy and Paul Sutherland (Sunderland?). They featured an NBA preview, a look at the top rookies, with a feature on Ammo (Adam Morrison), along with an interview with future Dookie Taylor Queen (ooops! King), and an interview with Ben Howland and a few of his players (Josh Shipp, Zo Mata, Darren Collison) looking forward to the upcoming season and looking back at their Final Four run. Ben Howland reminded everyone again that they only put National Title banners at Pauly. Final Four banners don't make it there! In his two-minute NCAA preview James Worthy pointed out Florida, NC and Oden State (Ohio State), blissfully unaware of Oden's injury. They also mentioned Kansas, Pitt, Duke, UConn (!) and Arizona. Judging from their nano-preview, they did not seem to be very familiar with the current rosters and status of the teams they talked about. They mostly cover the NBA after all!

The committment of Korie Lucious of the class of the 2008 was the big news of the last few hours. More recruiting news at RecruitingWars

Like to collect preview magazines? Don't forget about the ACC Handbook, currently available for pre-order.

The CHN 144 previews continue with GW, Oklahoma, Houston and SDSU.

Gary Parrish latest post has a common theme: CRAZY. Crazy as in Jim O'Brien wanting another 1.3 million after he was award 2.4 million from Ohio State. A grudge of mega-proportions perhaps? Crazy as in Eric Gordon visiting IU again, making the Illini fans and Bruce Webber crazy as well :)

Andy Katz blogs about Shawn Finney (ex Tulane coach and long time Tubby Smith associate) returning to Kentucky as director of basketball operations.

Sportsline has a story on all-state teams in a post that you usually see when a writer runs out of things to write about :-)

InsideHoops has news from a local perspective via newspaper story links. Included Dusquene updates, recruiting news, injury updates, legal update on Gavin Grant at NC State, Steve Alford's contract extension and even Nebraska broadcaster news.

CSTV Daily news includes more schedule and midnight madness announcements (reminder: Friday October 13). Exactly one month later Indiana opens the season and starts the Kelvin Sampson season (sponsored by Unlimited Calling from XYZ Wireless) in the preseason NIT (aka Season TipOff or whatever crappy new name they came up with). That game will be on ESPN2, while the next day the winners will meet on ESPN. First round is Indiana-Lafayette and Notre Dame-Butler, a distinctive Indiana flavor in this regional! ESPN2 will cover the NIT semifinals and final (Nov 22 and 24). Also Tony Jones leaves Idaho State.