Duke is out of the BillBoard Top 25 Basketball Charts

The unthinkable happened, Duke is out of both beauty contests, the AP and the ESPN/Coaches polls. Oddly enough the Coaches drop UCLA from #3 to #7, even though they lost without Darren Collison, and UCLA is now one spot below Texas A&M which they beat earlier on. Once again the writers show more basketball savvy than the Coaches, although in fairness, the ones who vote in the coaches polls are probably student managers, interns or their grandpa/grandma. Oh the silliness of polls!

Meanwhile a reasonable rumor from Mike DeCourcy's Inside Dish, Santa Clara pushed out Dick Davey Denny-Crum style because they want to have a shot at hiring former Stanford and Golden State Warrior coach Mike Montgomerry. Santa Clara is (as of right now) the only available NoCal job, and if Monty wants to stay in the area, and be able to watch his kids compete in SoCal, this is about as good of a job. But bigger openings will also become available this summer, so if Monty (who is currently doing TV analyst work for FSN and Comcast Sports Net) decides to return to coaching, will be do so as a WCC coach or take a shot at the national championship again by going to a "BCS" program?