Super Tuesday (updated)

Dean Smith sighting! Dean Smith had a one-segment interview on ESPN News today, talking about the paralysis cure foundation he was helping with. He also talked about basketball and said the refs should be calling more of the fouls instead of letting them go on like that. He also praised Ole Roy and tried to defend Larry Brown's tenure as USA Basketball head coach. He also mentioned that both he and Bill Guthridge maintain their previous offices on campus.

New show on CSTV dealing with NCAA-related issues. Title: "Taking issue with Brian Curtins", hosted by CSTV "guru" Brian Curtis. New episodes come out each Wednesday and they repeat about half a dozen times later on. Each episode is 30 minutes long (with commercials). They try to cover all sorts of topics as they relate to sports, including controversial issues. Episode #1 was promising given that its the only one of its kind (I don't have access to ESPN-U).

Yocohoops talks about the 2008 Final Four Logo and the promotion of NCAA guru Greg Shaheen (you may remember him from ESPNU's Organizing the Madness)

Interesting topics in Mike De Courcy's blog: Billy Walker's eligibility in high school, college and the NBA; the shootings at Dusquene, Reggie Bush, top 10 things to watch in 2006-2007, and the A-10 getting serious about scheduling (GW cupcakes, StBonn/Dusquene soft-serves)

Sportsline looks at the Top 10 seniors of 2006-2007. The list includes versatile game changers (Jared Dudley, Alando Tucker, Curtis Sumpter), men of size (Fazekas, Jermareo Davison, Aaron Gray), scorers (Morris Almond of Rice, Jarrius Jackson of Knight Tech, Acie Law the IV), and FSU's Al Thornton. Visit the website for the actual ranking. Their #1 choice may surprise you. The message board users have added their own write-in choices (Terry, Shakur, Radenovic).

Speaking of Sportsline, Gary Parrish updates his thoughts with a write-up on the shootings at Dusquene, the ole facitilies at Ole Miss, and Kentucky revisiting the past.

Multiple newswire reports on the tragic Dusquene shootings at the Sportsline newswire page. The players taken to hospital were Kojo Mensah, Aaron Jackson, Stuart Baldonado, Shawn James and Sam Ashaolu. A bullet had Baldonado's name on it, but fortunately it missed his spinal cord by 1/4", which would have caused paralysis. Baldonado was quoted by AP saying "I'm lucky". Meanwhile Sam Ashaolu remains in critical condition :-(. New coach Ron Everhart who tried to reboot the program with 10 new recruits called this "absolute mayhem" and he is thankful he got a phone of support from NCAA Czar Myles Brand. FoxSports coverage as well. Newspaper coverage links at InsideHoops.

The previews keep on coming at College Hoops Net (CHN). Latest additions: Utah State, Clemson, Drexel, Oregon, and Kansas State

The MarquetteBlog links to the Big East report on Big East point guards for 2006-2007. Follow the links on their website for their rankings of the other positions as well.

Greg Oden update: SST reported that the earliest Greg Oden could play at Ohio State would be January. The Ohio State magical mystery tour is officially postponed!

Bill Hodges and CSTV report on a trio of new signings by the General, Robert Montgomery Knight, FSU, GW, Fairfield, LaTech, Rice and Pacific

Jeff Goldman of FoxSports reports that Bridgton Acamedy has been taken off the list of alleged "diploma mills" under investigation. The complete list can be found in Jeff's story. It includes some high profile prep schools, such as MtZion, NDPrep, StTHomasMore, Patterson (if they played in the NCAA they would probably make the Sweet 16 given their roster), and once-mighty Laurinburg.

More news than you can digest at CSTV as they talk about Nash's # retired at SCU, Texas A&M going abroad, and 2006-2007 basketball schedules released for Holy Cross, Brown and Siena.

The latest Andy Katz updates talk about "the Godfather" (Sonny Vaccaro) pushing for basketball academies. Apparently Andy Katz has become ESPN royalty now since he doesn't write on the weekends anymore :)

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