Ricky Stokes out at East Carolina

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Rivals reports that Ricky Stokes is finally out at East Carolina. This story had been buzzing around for a while. Will this start a late spin of the coaching carousel? Probably not, his deputy will likely take over, associate head coach Mack McCarthy (McCarthism involved in the firing?). Stokes was only there for two years. While East Carolina is just a compass jump away from North Carolina, they are centuries behind in terms of college basketball :) Don't expect miracles East Carolina! His replacement made the Sweet 16 as a head coach ten years ago!

In an interesting 10-part series of historical interest, Rivals looks at the top 10 teams of the "64 era", since the NCAA tourney expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Who's #1? They haven't revealed that yet!

Check the posts below for the weekly TV guide including repeats of college basketball games, documentaries and movies, including Glory Road on Encore Action and Starz Black.

Three BCS teams got new players today. More at Recruiting Wars. Also Parrish column on recruiting decommitments, Kentucky recruiting, top 200 of 2008 by CSTV and more.

DeCourcy talks about the diffucult choices the Wake Forest AD must make in picking a replacement for Skip Prosser. Wake is not a public university, so that gives the AD a little bit more flexibility. Read on to find out more... Meanwhile Xavier pays tribute to Skip Prosser

Eric Gordon scores 38 in a pickup game, but it's enough to create a buzz at Indiana

A Sea of Blue strongly disagrees with the Louisville Carrier Journal linking Kentucky to the student loan kickbacks scandal under investigation by New York AG Cuomo.

James Madison, lemon trucks, back porches, Blue Ribbon previews, all this at the CAA Hoops blog. Mid-major to watch alert!

Good news for NC State fans, Gavin Grant's legal issues have been resolved favorably

From ProFantasySports via the ACC Fan Blog we get a list of the top 10 returning ACC players. According to that list there are four players better than Tywon Lawson in the ACC. One could perhaps make an argument for Iverson-Lite (Sean Singletary) ahead of Lawson, but Tyreese Rice ahead of Ty Lawson? Come on!!! :)

Tech Corner: Looking for a new notebook computer this week? Circuit City is offering the Compaq Presario F572us for $450 after a $30 rebate. It features a dvd burner and a dual-core AMD processor, along with the usual features.