Mid-week report (Cynic edition)

College Hoops got its brawl last night, live on air, on CSTV, with Pete Gillan. The un-sportsmanlike brawl ended up with a Wyoming player stomping on a New Mexico player while he was tangled up on the floor. One of the officials was brave enough to tackle one of the brawling players in order to stop the brawl. Sad... Embarassing... Just play the game... Who wants to be the next Wyoming coach? How about the next New Mexico coach? The Pit can be quite a home court! Mike Montgomerry?

If you missed it (and I forgot to post it in the daily TV listings), CSTV's Crystal Ball (basketball) made its debut on Monday with Seth Davis, Steve Lapas and special correspondant Seth Greenberg. It may repeat again, my local listings on CSTV are rather shaky at the moment. One of the funniest basketball moments of the year was Greg Amsinger attempting to Pete Gillan impersonation. Anyway, Seth Davis an "insider" segment in this show and he said a full-fledged recruiting war broke out for Kyle McAlarney after his herb incident at Notre Dame, but Brey was able to re-recruit him back to the Domers. Seth noted that if this happened at most of the other Big East schools McAlarney wouldn't even be suspended for a single game. You may recall the Laptop Williams and Laptop Price incidents among others. This is my opinion: One on hand one should praise Notre Dame for sticking to their code despite the risk of losing an NCAA bid because of the suspension. However, a cynic can easily point out that people of the same thinking are kicking a student-athlete out of school for herbs, while they cover up child m*l*st*ing priests. You decide...

Seth Davis: Calling Myles Brand to ban "storming the court". Safe and sensitive thing to do or spoiling the party? You decide...

Brad Daughterty: You may remember this 7-footer from his NBA days, from his North Carolina days, from his college basketball analyst days on ESPN. Well, now he is back on the air, he made his debut as a ...NASCAR analyst. From a left hook to a left turn...

Bill Raftery: A Game a Day routine: he did three games in a row (Saturday, Sunday, Monday). Don't know if he did one yesterday

Clemson: Same old story? Just after they made a believer out of me...

Gonzaga: This Cinderella is too pretty for the Bracket Busters. But to their defense they will get busted by the Lopez twins tonight, and have a shootout with the AASAA Tigers later on...

Arizona: Shredded by Doug Gottlieb for selfish play and Shakur reverting back to his "Moody Blues" days. As you may recall the other members of the Moody Blues: Chris Rodgers, Salim Stoudamire, Hot Sauce and Kirk Walters.