OJ Mayo Mania and impromptu 2007-08 season preview

Goodman reports on OJ Mayo practicising for a career in politics (he says he plans to return to USC next year unless he is a lottery pick etc etc). The new Arkansas coach (not Stan Heath, but John Pelphrey) is spotlighted. Also a few updates on recent non-qualifiers.

More on OJ Mayo in this AP story by Beth Harris. The obligatory reference to the other OJ was made (in case you were wondering)

DeCourcy's Inside Dish is back with Washington's magical mystery tour, a former NCState hoopster in the MLB and Odom's loss is MVC's gain. Also DeCourcy's blog is back (or it has a new url, or both)

Dick Hoops Weiss reports on the Big East buzz coming from the "internets": Pitino drama wth Gonzo? he asks. Or perhaps Pitino is simply trying to protect his former assistant Kevin Willard who has just taken over Iona. It's a lot easier for Gonzo as a Seton Hall head coach in the Big East and as a CSTV analyst to hire a new assistant, than Willard to get one as a first year head at Iona, in the tall and wide shadow of Jeff Ruland.

Coverage of Eddie Griffin's funeral at College Hoops Heaven. And they noticed that I wrote about them :-)

Latest recruting updates at Recruting Wars


Impromptu 2007-2008 Preview special

All you can eat season previews at CHN's Top 144 continuing with Miami (of Florida), Southern "Party Coach" Miss, Western Kentucky, Auburn and Saint Mary's.

Not quite 144 teams, but Rivals has a Top 64 team preview feature. They are currently at #44 with Theus-less New Mexico State, followed by Illinois (off-court troubles), Nebraska, and George Mason a spot ahead of Maryland (???). A nice preview job by Rivals, their previews are compact, concise, to the topic, printer friendly, and they avoid excessive use of multimedia, flash and other hogware! Well done!

Continuing with the preview theme, a detailed look at Kentucky's 2007-2008 roster at ASoB

DeCourcy looks at Indiana with Eric Gordon on its roster. Will Kelvin Sampson be forced to play some offense?

DeCourcy also looks as Duke's schedule and thinks it prepares them for March (Sadness! hehe). Thank VCU, thank you :-)

DeCourcy's also looks at Northern Iowa's international tour moonlighting as Team USA. Will the experimental triangle offense stick?

Recap and recount the coaching changes of the off-season at CBS Sportsline, which appears to be on vacation at the moment (no new updates)

And if you want more previews, be sure to visit and bookmark our gigantic 2007-2008 preview via links!. If you have a blog or website on this topic and want it added to the list, just leave a comment or send an email!

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!