Quiet Friday

Don't forget the Jordan Classic tomorrow (Saturday) at 6pmPT/9pmET on ESPN2 live from MSG in NYC! Details here

Grading the Coaches: Yet Another Basketball Blog has come up with a formula to grade the college basketball coaches, along with predictions on who will be on the hot seat in 2008... He also breaks down the coaching carousel by following the chains (dominos).


NBA Draft 2007

Two more enter the NBA draft but won't sign with agents, this time Nevada players Marcellus Kemp and Ramon Sessions according to FoxSports.com. Now, before you say WTF?, remember that juniors get a "free pass" if they don't sign with an agent and they can get valuable feedback from numerous NBA people that can help their basketball career further down the road.

Today HoopsHype.com has wall to wall coverage on the Ohio State trio entering the NBA draft (Greg Oden, Mike Conley, Daquean Cook). The story broke out yesterday at FoxSports.com with Jeff Goodman (see yesterday's post below).


Headlines from ESPN:

Rob Evans, former Ole Miss and Arizona State head coach joins the Arkansas staff. He has SEC experience, Mark Turgeon does not.

Louisiana-Lafayette gets put on a two-year probation. Who is the NCAA angry at this time? Duke? Carolina? UCLA? Kansas? Kentucky? Arizona? Texas? Syracuse?

Princeton goes to the well, they want one of JT3's assistants, Sydney Johnson who played on the Princeton team under Pete Carill that upset Jim Harrick's UCLA team in the 1996 NCAAs.