Calipari greets a lizard at the Cancun Classic.
• Dana O’Neil with another terrific effort. I called her the Tom Rinaldi of college basketball yesterday on Twitter. She was confused by that, but it’s a good thing. {ESPN.com}
• Roy Williams had surgery yesterday, which was required after he slipped a celebrity golf event in October. He’ll be patrolling the sidelines in a sling for the next month. You think he’ll lose any of his intensity. {AP}
• Plenty of buzz about just what the hell Devin Ebanks did to tick off Bob Huggins so badly. I think Ebanks finally gets some PT tomorrow in Anaheim for WVU’s game against Long Beach State. {AP}
• Kind of out of nowhere, but it rings true: Calipari doesn’t produce good NBA guards. {Dime}
• Josh Pastner claims to have never smoked, drank alcohol or soda. Living more than 30 years and avoiding the pleasure that is an orange soda on a hot day? Amazing. {Sports By Brooks}
• Buried at the bottom of Goodman’s post: Dominique Archie is out indefinitely after he landed badly following a dunk against Miami. {Fox Sports}
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On the Thanksgiving eve tube …
»Colorado at Chaminade (Maui consolation); 2 ET (ESPNU).
»No. 24 Maryland vs. Wisconsin (Maui third-place game); 4:30 ET (ESPN2).
»Vanderbilt vs. Arizona (Maui consolation); 7 ET (ESPNU).
»LSU vs. No. 13 Connecticut (preseason NIT semis); 7 ET (ESPN2).
»Arizona State vs. No. 7 Duke (NIT); 9 ET (ESPN2).
»Cincinnati vs. Gonzaga (Maui champ. game); 10 ET (ESPN).
