Mid- week report

NCAA Flashback: Don't underestimate the importance of Larry Shyatt in Florida's national championship run!

Crying: Glen "Big Baby" Davis was almost crying when telling the CSTV cameras that he had to give up cookies and ice-cream in preparation for the upcoming season.

Andy Katz reports in his Insider blog that CJ Giles may be done at KU. The luxury of having a deep bench and probably a big-name forward waiting to commit in 2007... He also touches upon the KU sanctions and Nike's new battleplan for the summer evaluation period in July.

YocoHoops has started conference previews at FauxSports, beginning with the Atlantic-10 first. This is the first year of the A-10 without John Chaney.

A recount of the Indiana Midnight Madness with Kelvin Sampson at FoxSports. Getting Eric Gordon "back" looks like the first major victory for Kelvin. No doubt he must be now working on getting Greg Oden back ;-)

Also at FoxSports a story on how Coach K charges businesspeople $1600 to watch his practices and spew his typical feel-good nonsense. If I had Coach K's resources, recruits, preferential treatment from the media, the refs and the NCAA, heck, I could take Duke to the Sweet 16 every year ;-)

On the injury front, Space-Eater Dwayne Curtis of Ole Miss is out for a few weeks.

Latest conference preview at March Madness All Season is The Sun Belt conference, featuring mid-major power Western Kentucky, up-and-coming South Alabama, and Florida Atlantic breathing a sigh of relief as they got rid of the coaching disaster (Matt Doherty).

Gary Parrish chimes in on the Greg Paulus injury, but he's not the only one: Lorenzo Mata at UCLA, Dandgridge at Missouri, space-eater Pierre Niles at Memphis, and Joe Crawford. He also has a write-up on a very popular topic of the upcoming season: the status and state of space-eater Derrick Caracter. Once again Rick Pitino is playing with fire hoping for another Final Four run. On top of that Pitino puts on his Jenny Craig hat and demands 10% body fat and 275lbs before he allows Caracter to play. I am telling you this soap is gonna be huge this season!

InsideHoops covers: recruiting (AJ Stewart, Patrick Patterson (hot recruit), LSU, IU), Greg Paulus, Eric Gordon, Bruce Webber. Pitino is not the only coach putting on the Jenny Craig hat: Tim Floyd won't let Lodrick Stewart practice unless he loses some weight.

CBS Sportsline visits Tom Izzo and the Meeeecheeeegan State Spartans

CSTV daily news covers more news than you can possible read with CJ Giles on exit orbit from Kansas, Bucknell on ESPNU, Pitt's tougher schedule (from cupcake to crunch bagels), Kansas adds a walk-on Brad Witherspoon (6-1, 180), more TV schedule announcements and season outlooks, including Herb Sendek's first year in the desert, Olson's grand-son hired by the Wildcats (former walk-on Matt Brase), CSTV's Top Five TV games, a write-up on Bruce Pearl, a recap of Midnight Madness at various campus sites, and a whole lot more... Thank you CSTV!

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That's all folks!