All-Star Games Saturday!

Not one, but two high-school all-star games will debut today on TV. One is live, the Nike Hoop Summit from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, on regional FSNs and Fox College Sports. The other is a tape-delayed two-hour edit of the Godfather's (Sonny Vaccaro) Roundball Classic from Chicago. Airtimes, TV stations, rosters, details, media guides and everything you wanted to know about these games at Recruiting Wars

Meanwhile Florida pulls another "fake trophy disaster" during the Gator Championship Celebration aired on FSN SunSports and Fox College Sports. This time the fake trophy rolled off the pedestal and fell on the ground... Coaches are creatures of habbit and superstition, so if breaking a fake trophy at Midnight Madness in 2006 resulted in another championship in April 2007, you bet they will keep breaking fake trophies until they stop winning championships :-)

The five John R. Wooden Award finalists for player of the year are.... Acie Law, Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Alando "Fernando" Tucker, and Tyler Hansbrough. And the winner, presented by the first Wooden Award winner UCLA great Marques Johnson is... revealed here!... Props to Marques Johnson for calling the show's host, Gus Johnson, the most exciting play by play guy... The Women's John R Wooden award went to Candance Parker, who thanked everyone including her opponents. The finalists were: Sylvia Fowles, Lidnsey Harding, Ivory Iverson-Latta, and space-eater Courtney Paris... The Legends of Coaching award was given to Gene Keady of Purdue.


Coaching Carousel Continues Quitely Today

He is back! Dan Monson returns to the west coach but won't be bumping heads with Mark Few, Grier and the Zags. He has taken over the Long Pyramid State (ooops Long Beach State) team.

If Louisville fans were excited to have one Pitino on the bench, they will be thrilled to find out they are getting a second one, as he hired his 24 year old son to as an assistant after Kevin Willard got the Iona head coaching job. Current assistant Steve Masiello will become his top deputy, not his son.

It's officially official. Frank Martin will take over Kansas State in a desperate attempt by the Kansas State to recover from the "knock out punch" (their words) delivered by the ejection of Bob Huggins... Dalonte Hill was promoted to associate coach, which bodes well for the retention of Michael Beasley... Perhaps Bob Huggins felt uncomfortable with the impressive turnaround success story at Kansas State and had to go elsewhere?