University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart during a news conference to announce the release of basketball coach Billy Gillispie in March of 2009. Barnhart will interview for the AD job at Kansas, reportedly. (AP/Ed Reinke)

New podcast is up in iTunes, by the way. If you’re already at work and can’t get to it, I’ll have a post with a direct audio link to the podcast coming up at 10:30 a.m.

• The new Jordan shoes UNC will be wearing. Me like. {Nike.com}

• StatSheet.com (an awesome site for the tempo-free devout) is going to have robots start writing game stories. {Tech Journal South}

• From Friday: Georgetown won’t have a key freshman for nine games. {The Hoya}

• Things overlooked from the first week of the season. {Searching for Billy Edelin}

• Jelan Kendrick is gone from Memphis. Will have a post on this shortly. {Memphis Commercial Appeal}

• Fifty things to keep an eye on within the Bluegrass State this season. It goes way beyond UK. {Lexington Herald-Leader}

• K-State without a key player for Tuesday’s game against Virginia Tech? {Jeff Goodman}

• The Buckeyes overrated? Davis can see it being the case. {SI.com}

• It’s just Ivy League ball, but Princeton’s expected to win it this year. The Tigers looked good against Rutgers. Then they went and got slaughtered by Duke. {ACC Sports Journal}

• Mitch Barnhart, the AD at Kentucky, is interested in leaving for Kansas. {SPORTS by BROOKS}

• Crazy statistical anomaly, or are they that bad? St. Peter’s only made six field goals against Bob Morris. {Box score}

Butler’s banner is unveiled.