Daily Bubble Talk returns!

You probably won't hear about this on ESPN for obvious reasons, but Dick Vitale got in trouble (if that's possible), by saying that Billy Donovan told him in confidence that NBA scouts would make a mistake if they rank Noah ahead of Horford. The AOL Sports blog has the story

An excellent website, http://www.truthaboutduke.com to visit and bookmark! For example, a comparison between Dean Smith and Coach K (aka AMEX). I would also like to point out that the American Express tv ads with Coach K are major recruiting violations because Coach K was essentially recruiting everyone watching by saying things like [I want you to play for me, and be passionate, and be successful and similar type of bs]. Even more so because those ads aired during a quiet period (recruiting wise). But the NCAA is not going to do anything about that. Instead they'll take it out on Rick Majerus for buying a $7 sandwich instead of a $5 sandwich for a player who had just suffered a major family tragedy (Van Horn). Or they'll take it out on "directional small state school" for giving the players one too many drinks of gatorade, while they'll slap Kelvin Sampson on the wrist with a feather for making over 500 excessive recruiting calls. Fair and Balanced Mr Myles Brand?. More on the AMEX commercials.

Comprehensive March Madness and Championship week TV listings post, continually updated as listings become available and get updated by the broadcasters.

I have created a new and continually updated post to cover all things NIT since the NIT doesn't get as much love as the NCAA. NIT Central. It's also a link towards the top of the left-hand column.

Tuesday games on TV are posted below

A concerned Butler fan told me that the NCAA's official RPI is counting Butler's split-crowd games at Conseco against the other Indiana schools (Domers, Purdue, Indiana) as home games. This is clearly not fair, as these games are essentially NCAA tourney-type games, and since they involve in-state teams they should be considered neutral court games. This is similar to the Big 5 games in Philly played at the Palestra in front of bi-partisan crowds.

Today's issue of (the print and presumably the online as well) edition of USA Today has expanded college basketball coverage (every Tuesday). Today's edition has a cover story on Winthrop (this year's George Mason?), Jim Tressel's impact on the Buckeyes basketball team, a comprehensive coverage of upcoming conference tournament games/schedules, and features on Arizona's flip-flopping, and Pat Summitt. No room for Dick Vitale this week presumably because of the expanded conference tourney coverage. Also mentioned in the paper were the overnight TV ratings for two college basketball games: The #1 vs #1 slugfest of Wisconsin at Ohio State got a 3.1 rating (2.4m households), CBS's highest this season. This beat the NBA game on ABC (Bulls vs Pistons) who got a 2.3 (1.8m households). Meanwhile the Florida at Big-Baby-less LSU got a 2.0 rating (1.5m households).

Thanks to Neel Mehta blog for the link!

The TheBracketBoard has been updated today. Also make sure you bookmark their One Stop Shop page with comprehensive coverage of all conference tourney brackets in a very readable format! Click on each conference at the bottom of the page to see its brackets.

Meanwhile the latest brackets posted by Joey Brackets are as of Monday. Joey Brackets being the street name for ESPN's Joe Lunardi. By the way, the "Dr Bracketology" segment on Sunday's College Gamenight was great. I hope ESPN continues and expands on it!

March Madness All Season has comprehensive conference tournament previews posted. An index of all their previews

Jerry Palm's top seeds presented on CSTV's Full Court Press: UCLA, Florida, Ohio State, and Wisconsin.