Weekend update (reorganized)

I am clearly behind on catching up with the latest news. If only there were 34 hours in a day :-)

Four college basketball game repeats this Sunday July 1st 2007 on Fox College Sports featuring teams mid-major teams from North East/New York. Details in the weekly TV schedule post

How many SEC students does it take to change a light bulb?



2007-2008 season

Speaking of A Sea of Blue, they continue their six-part series previewing the upcoming 2007-2008 SEC season with Vandy and Georgia

The Summit League grows taller and longer and bigger. If the name sounds unfamiliar, think of the Mid-Continent conference with the addition of North and South Dakota State and IPFW

CHN's preseason top 50, version II

Don't look now but the 144-part series of previews at CHN has already began! Yes folks, the 144 reviews are already in progress! And who is #144 you ask? Not the Oakland Raiders. No, not the Raiders, but the Grizzlies!

A very quick preview of the preview of the upcoming Blue Ribbon preview of the CAA at the CAA Hoops blog

Lots of other news at CSTV including the 2007-2008 UCLA basketball schedule,

Marshall picks up some of the Zags magic as they get P-Mac as a transfer. P-Mac is short for Pierre Marie Altidor Cespedes (I did not cut/paste folks, I typed it all in!). P-Mac was grandfathered in the now doomed (and deemed free agency rule) that was rescinded. But he petitioned and he was grandfathered in so he will be eligible to play in 2007-2008, his final year of eligibility. As you may have guessed from the name, P-Mac is from Montreal of Canada. New head coach Donnie Jones (former Florida assistant) is stockpiling talent and hopes to take advantages of the vacuum of power at the top of Conference USA behind the Calipari Experiment and the loaded UAB squad.




Coaches

Was Billy Donovan banned from the NBA Draft? Or did he really have plane problems?. You decide :) Goodman also blogs about Gillispie getting things done at Kentucky, and the coaching carousel at Coastal Carolina and New Mexico State

The hiring of PitinoVille assistant Marvin Menzies at New Mexico State is talked about by Fox Sports and Sportsline and Yahoo Sports and ESPN. Menzies promises to stay at Las Cruces for a long time. The implied assumption is: "long time (unless a better job opens up)".

Does this open the door for Pitino's son to get a promotion? Not so fast! A Sea of blue discusses the emergence of former Pitino and Kentucky star Walter McCarty as an assistant. Looks like it is official. ESPN story and USA Yesterday story.

Latest posts from the Hoops Coach blog talk about winning, difference makers and IQ + character.



Everything else

The NCAA will revisit the text messaging rule. Perhaps Blackberry, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and such had a talk with Myles Brand? :-)

And now some sad news. Racial slurs were slipped into the offices of the coaching staff at Ball State. This is the 21st century but sadly a lot of people are stuck centuries behind. The racists used recent NCAA violations by the coaching staff as an excuse. It's one thing to complain about a coach having NCAA violations and it's a totally different thing to resort to racial slurs and leaving notes in such a manner. Everybody check your calendars, this is the 21st century!

Latest news on the Air Force basketball program but also the Mountain West conference in general at The Friends of Air Force Basketball website. They also have a very nice list of college hoops links

The NCAA rejects two proposals for drug-testing. They probably know what the results will be and wouldn't like that outcome :-)

The Phog Blog says that the Big 12 is planning to move its conference championship game from Sunday to Saturday, and the final will move to the Sprint Center in KC starting in 2009-2010. The former was probably done in response to the timing of the NCAA selection cmte selections.

Another chapter in the Texas vs Oklahoma rivarly