Monday Night Hoops!

The NCAA Hoops Today Files

We just posted our third college basketball preview magazine review, this time the Sporting News - Street and Smith magazine. Wait, aren't those two supposed to be two different magazines? Well, not anymore! Read on to discover the dark secrets of Magazine M&A! Colonial Association fans may have some issues with the coverage as well.

The big news from the recruiting trail was Greg Monroe picking Georgetown. Go Hoyas!

Our multi-part series on Scouting for the 2007-2008 season continues with Scouting the Kentucky Midnight Madness scrimmage.

USC Fans our challenged to drink OJ and eat mayo.

An early college basketball TV schedule is ready to go. It includes ESPN and ESPN2 games up to November 22, 2007.

If you missed the Blogger's Top 25 Poll and the bloggers behind the poll, check it out!

Don't forget our gigantic season preview via links. If you have created a preview page or blog, let me know and I will add it to the list.

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The Blogosphere Files

A Sea of Blue looks at the New World of College Football. Which Florida school is #2 in the BCS? Urban Legend's Florida? Florida State? No. Then surely it is Miami! Nope! South Florida is #2 in the BCS!

Don't you just love that College Hoops doesn't have to deal with BCS? :)

Kelvin Sampson gets caught red handed again, with the finger on the phone trigger. Storm the Floor has the story! Also discussed at March to Madness! and Rush the Court.

Catch up with the latest from the world of non-BCS conferences at the Mid-Majority Repor(t).

Did you miss Midnight Madness? March to Madness has a recap in pictures. More at Rush The Court. And a MM recap as well.

Tony Nunes is a magician and dislikes Bill Raftery? How can anyone possibly dislike Bill Raftery???

SEC Hoops - the Good, the Bad and the Dirty picks their SEC all conference teams.

Bruins Nation celebrates John Wooden's 97th birthday!. And an update from the Ben Howlin Wolf's practices.

Jim Harrick-bad news for Georgia reports SEC GBD - Mike Mercer and Takais Brown have received big suspensions for academic reasons. This almost ruins Dennis Felton's first chance at an NCAA bid.

Am I the only one to see some resemblance between Dennis Felton and the basketball coach on a recurring Mad TV sketch?

HoopsJunkie.net thinks Jim Calhoun is a ...pussy cat.

Going head to head with Alabama's Ron Steel for most injured player of the decade is PitinoVille's Juan Diego Tello Palacios. Story at CardChronicle.com.

The CAA Hoops blog has updated their CAA conference preview. Find out what to expect this season from the Duke Slayers (VCU Rams) and the UConn Slayers (George Mason). And Street and Smith has the audacity (I don't know what it means, I was told to use this word [ref: Pete Gillan]) not to include the Colonial as one of their top six non-BCS conferences. This is one of my half a dozen beefs with this year's Street and Smith (aka The Sporting News) preview magazine.

A recap of Marquette's Midnight Madness at Marquette blog Cracked Sidewalks.


The Big Media Files

Dick Hoops Weiss has a Midnight Madness post that includes some tidbits from the St John's legend Lou Carnesecca. He also comments on the new option for the zebras to T-up coaches for "decorum" non-conformity.

A new website/season-preview has been launched, the Basketball Prospectus. Among the internauts involved is Ken Pomeroy of kenpom.com

From the desk of Publish or Parrish we have a new top 25. Parrish also comments on Kelvin Sampson's 500,000 call debacle. Bring back Mike Davis and Bob Knight?

Nebraska AD gets fired after football defeat according to CBS Sportsline

And some sad news as former Georgia star Alec Kessler died at the every early age of 40.

A setback for the Dave Letterman of basketball coaches as DJ Rivera will sit out the first semester, another one in a long list of academic casualties.

DeJuan Blair has been flying under the radar, but this big big man will make a big splash in the new big Big East. Big I'm telling you. More at CBS Sportsline.

Speaking of the state of PA, College Hoops Heaven and the Bulletin will be taking a look at the practices at the big six Philly colleges. The Big 5 plus Drexel for those not familiar with Philly.

Goodman has updated from Midnight Madness, a new point guard at Marshall, and updates on Kansas, Illinois and Ole Miss. I hope the first two don't fight because they are in the same column :)

Meanwhile YoCoHoops is back! with lots of new posts! Check them out. Quite interestingly, former Indiana great Kent Benson has called for the firing of Kelvin 500-calls 500,000-fine Sampson. Time to beg Bob Knight to return?