Who's next? SWAC? MEAC? How about the Big Sky? Something tells me it's just not quite big enough. Reasons for why the MWC has no choice to do this are inside.

It's been another year filled with expectations and a void of an NCAA Tournament appearance (most likely) for Rhody fans. After getting to 19-3 overall and holding a 7-2 record in the Atlantic 10, the Rams fell apart. They now stand at 21-8, haven't won a "must-win" game in weeks and are on the verge of another quasi-collapse. And the fans have had enough. Or so they say. The Rams fans took to, ... Read More

(UPDATE: Please give this blog a read. I know there are hundreds of cancer-recovery blogs out there, but we've got a college hoops blog theme to it. The man who is stricken with it is just 23 years old. He's a former teammate of CHJ buddy Rob Dauster of Ballin' is a Habit. A good writer and an easy read. Again: Cancer motivates people as much as it depresses those ... Read More

Here's a thought: Cousins could save those texts, hand them over to police and turn the tables on the mouthbreathers who find bigotry hilarious.

That is a picture of a man broken. I think my heart breaks for him. News coming out of Tulsa today that Sean Sutton was arrested, basically, for trying to get a hold of as many pills possible to deal with physical pain. I'm guessing that's not the only kind. "He's sick," Lee said. Sutton is suffering withdrawal symptoms from pain medication and is currently at the Stillwater City Jail, Lee said. Sutton admitted to ... Read More

Yes, because Frank Martin is from Cuba he must be associated with landscaping capability. It's racist garbage.

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

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

The drama seems to have come to a definitive end in Minneapolis. And I am not talking about Brett Favre.

Now this is a blow to the chest. Sports By Brooks just posted that an ESPN source and a source at a "powerhouse NCAA" school has knowledge of The Tournament's expansion to 96 teams being a "done deal." What an awful idea. Do I need to complain and take up your time and mine by bitching about how this will kill all meaning to the regular season? Here's an excerpt from Brooks' ... Read More

This broke Wednesday, so I apologize for being tardy with it. In a move that will have the tiniest of ripple effects, the University of New Orleans officially got permission to withdraw from the Sun Belt Conference, effective July 1. The move had to be made because the university simply can't afford to have Division I athletics in a post-Katrina New Orleans. In a really classy move, the Sun Belt Conference had a ... Read More

Only nine days after the players declared they'd rather quit than play for former head coach Terry Dunn, Garrett Brown and Marlon Sanders were caught getting all high-school-senior with it and smoking up in a car on the side of the road. How do you think that scene played out? I think most of us have been near or around such an instance. Authorities, who seized a total of 12 bags of ... Read More

Is this a shocker? I don't think so. Connecticut, which is in the midst of one of its toughest regular-season campaigns in 20 years, just lost its head coach for an undetermined amount of time/games. Again. To health reasons. Again. I wrote last year that Calhoun should stay. Now, I'm not so sure. And it's unclear whether or not Calhoun will be back this season. Here's Connecticut's statement in full on the matter: University of Connecticut Head Men's Basketball ... Read More

I was away from the computer for most of the weekend, so I didn't get to this as it was going on, but what an awesome, uplifting story out of Lexington. Even the largest of John Calipari detractors can't ignore the goodwill he helped with as coaches from all over the country called in to donate and raise money for the victims in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti. Cal, WKYT ... Read More

Embarrassing auto-tune aside, the swift turnaround on this one is impressive. It's clear Woolridge locked himself up, a la Tupac, and pounded out a beauty in a matter of hours. Woolridge, whose stage/Twitter/doppelgänger name is "Swiperboy," is not new to this game. So, I present to you, the timely, smooth, ill tones of Swiperboy and "Never Leave You Like Kiffin." I wonder, in their heart of hearts, if UT fans would admit this ... Read More

Kind of an ominous sign for Carolina road to the Final Four, right? (Dodges tomatoes.) Larry Drew No. 2 (must send request to follow on Twitter) put up a photo from his phone a few minutes ago detailing either some red-faced Clemson fan on a mission (UNC plays at Littlejohn Coliseum tonight) or, more likely, a fool too busy checking his cell phone to pay attention to a 10-ton-pound vehicle creeping out ... Read More

It appears Southern Cal has made a huge mistake. Erasing the records from the 2007-08 season? How could they!? Because, as it turns out, LaPoe Smith, Mayo's agent (not the one he originally had coming out of USC) said the young lad totally didn't take any dough or goodies while living on campus during his brief stint in SoCal. "O.J. Mayo was totally in the dark about anything happening inappropriately at USC," ... Read More

Some shock jock got wind of the time and number during this afternoon's Big East conference call. Naturally, Jim Calhoun got the brunt of the questioning.