The field seems to get more like oil and water each week. The popular opinion this week: five or six Atlantic 10 teams in. I've only got three. How did I get here?

The officials blew it, and the Austin Peay coaches know it.

Mid-major teams take up more spots in this week's poll than any other week to date.

You know what I fear? Evan Turner getting jobbed of Player of the Year. It would be criminal. It would be stupid. Barring a serious dip in statistics on his part, there's no reason Turner shouldn't win the award (or take home the majority of them; there are many Player of the Year awards, after all). I've already written quite a bit about the soft-spoken Turner, and now that the national media will turn ... Read More

Some early-morning links to distract you from how good you should feel for New Orleans.

Five worthwhile results from yesterday. Yep, and UNC lost again.

Fair or foul? What I really want to know is, did Terps fans give a proper callback to "Tommy Boy" by saying, "Hos-keepeeng!!" If you're wondering how it happened, I'm guessing the photos on Twitter that went up yesterday from UNC's players and program were seen by Terps fans. Knowing the area, the fans knew deduced which hotel it would be and began dialing. Fake an identity over the phone here and there, ... Read More

—UPSET—Illinois 78, No. 5 Michigan State 73. I'm loving how the ESPN "GameDay" games are turning into must-watch matchups. You know how it can be. Lots of hype and then a dud. That hasn't been the case so far this year. Although, Kentucky is next week's destination. That thing could be over by halftime. Last night, Illinois got its first real flag-planting win by knocking out a Kalin Lucas-deprived Michigan ... Read More

—UPSET—Oklahoma 80, No. 9 Texas 71. How is Rick Barnes screwing this up? Texas has lost a wheel and is careening off the side of the road. Oklahoma's Tommy Mason-Griffin is the new hot name of the day. He's averaging 24 points in his lastfive games and is sinking nearly four 3's in that stretch as well. —UPSET—UNLV 88, Brigham Young 74. Boy, it was one of those games for the ... Read More

—We have a clear view of the student's face. Can we get some punishment, please? Why is this allowed? I love a good, mean-spirited chant or sign, but racism is sickening. Props to DC Sports Bog and Mister Irrelevant for the screen capture. Vasquez spoke about the sign after the game. "They were calling me Mexican when I'm Venezuelan." —The 11 finalists for the best guard in the nation have been ... Read More

For all the hoopla last weekend's Harvard-Cornell game got, the Crimson haven't lived up to their end of the Ivy League bargain. It was a glorious start, the best in school history, but life in this League mean one loss weighs as much as five wins. After Tommy Amaker's team lost 63-53 last night at home to Princeton, a team that is 13-5 overall. Harvard made a frenzied come back, but ... Read More

Jeff Goodman has just broken this story, which seems like something so filled with meta it couldn't be true. The Los Angeles Clippers want Isiah Thomas to take over their organization. Rumors are now beginning to swirl that Thomas could abandon his proud, padlocked post at Florida International for NBA waters — if he wanted to. According to a source close to the situation, the Clippers have reached out to Thomas -- who ... Read More

It's the most bloated college basketball Saturday of the year. We'll get to it in a minute. I do want to focus in on the two Sunday games that are noteworthy: North Carolina-Maryland (2 ET) and Syracuse-Cincinnati (2 ET). First, Maryland. This is a team that, last season, never came up in big spots. Gary Williams has publicly acknowledged his disdain over rumors about his job security. That notion seems to ... Read More

I think the internal dialogue may have gone something like this: Excuse me, I'm Marqus Blakely, and you're just going to have to get the hell out of the way or accept living in a world where you came face to face with my nether regions. Too late. You're done. The video is a full-game recap of UVM's 64-51 win over Maine Wednesday night, so to get to the goods, fast-forward ... Read More

“The Student Section Supports” highlights one game each weekend that is under the national radar and/or has high upset potential. This week we’re looking at one of the more surprising teams since 2010 started, Virginia, getting its chance to keep ahead of the pack in the ACC. When: Saturday, noon ET. WAKE FOREST (15-5): Wake defeated Virginia two weeks ago, 69-57. A team I consider similar to Georgia Tech, in that I'm ... Read More

• How hilarious would it be if Arizona was able to run the table in the Pac-10 tourney to keep its streak alive? The school didn't enforce a postseason ban. {FOX Sports} • With each passing game Evan Turner moves up and John Wall moves down. If Kentucky continues to win, though, Turner has no shot. {AnnArbor.com} • The five ugliest courts in college basketball. I disagree with three of the choices. ... Read More

No. 10 Duke 86, No. 21 Georgia Tech 67. Game No. 900 at Cameron, this was. Duke and Kyle Singler responded in the exact opposite way they did nearly a month ago when G-Tech owned the Blue Devils in Atlanta. The career-high 30 points and eight three-points for Singler was a big part of it all, of course. Singler's a strange cat to me. He seems capable to put up ... Read More

Fox Sports Net's Mark Adams isn't afraid to be blunt, candid with how much he disdains the kind of behavior that went on in Morgantown last night.