Skip navigation
Favorites
Sign up to follow your favorites on all your devices.
Sign up

The Morning Mix

- Conference expansion just won’t go away. Word on the street is that Boise State is going to stay put in the Mountain West Conference for the 2012 season and Temple will join the Big East in their place. The Owl’s move makes sense, at least for college basketball

- Could college basketball benefit from a playoff format similar to the UEFA Champions League? John Infante does a phenomenal job explaining how the CBBL and NCAA Cup would work. Whether or not casual fans would understand or accept it is a totally different story

- The broadcast teams for the NCAA Tournament have been announced. Another year, another NCAA Tournament without Gus Johnson. This needs to change

- San Fransico 49er’s head coach Jim Harbaugh served as a student manager for Indiana’s game against North Carolina Central last night. Harbaugh’s sister Joani is married to Hoosiers head coach Tom Crean, and with the NFL combine in Indianapolis, Harbaugh decided to help fill up his brother-in-law’s water bottle

- There’s no doubt that Syracuse has one of the most loyal and passionate fan-bases in the country. Here’s what happens when Orange fandom meets interior design

- Delaware AD Bernard Muir and Michigan State AD Mark Hollis have been selected to join the NCAA Division-I men’s basketball committee

- Another great-read on Southern Miss head coach Larry Eustachy, who is making the most out of his second chance

- Jim Calhoun will undergo back surgery and is expected to miss at least two more games. The UConn head coach has already missed nine games this season. He sat out the first three Big East games of the season due to NCAA sanctions, and has missed the last six games with spinal stenosis

- There are many reasons why Gregg Doyel is awesome. But one of the main reasons why is that he’ll say what we’re all thinking, and he’ll do it in entertaining fashion: His take on Jim Calhoun

- Big-XII Commissioner Chuck Neinas plans on leaving his post on July 1st. Neinas was named commissioner after Dan Beebe was forced out during the first wave of conference expansion

- Make sure you get a chance to read this brilliant piece from Shane Ryan of Grantland. He explains all the terrible truths about Kentucky basketball

- Glen Logan details all the factual inaccuracies in Thayer Evans’ article about John Calipari

- Really? I though this Twany Beckham/Rick Stansbury beef would simmer when the game ended

- Despite the blessings from both head coaches, Maryland and Georgetown will not be playing each other any time soon. David Elfin says what we’re all thinking

- Rush The Court takes a stab at this “16-best college basketball teams of a all-time” idea that CBS Eye on CBball is rolling with

- Jack Blankenship, the “Alabama weird-face guy” is now officially a D-list celebrity

- Despite a 6-21 season plagued by injuries, USC head coach Kevin O’Neil is confident he’ll be back in SoCal next season

- Jeff Goodman explains why the Crosstown Brawl was only the beginning of Xavier’s problems