- Cal’s hustle and glue guy Jorge Gutierrez will be out of both Bear games this week (vs. UCLA and USC) with a sprained right knee that he suffered in a game against Stanford over the weekend. Along the same lines, UCLA’s Jerime Anderson will be benched in the Cal game for missing a rehab session, meaning that Tyler Honeycutt will get the first start of his career.
- Former Wolverine and current Domino’s Pizza CEO David Brandon will take over as the new Michigan AD. We know there’s a joke here somewhere.
- The first Korean to ever earn a D1 basketball scholarship, Maryland’s Jin Soo Choi, is returning to his home country to pursue basketball opportunities there.
- Kalin Lucas is prepping for MSU’s game with Wisconsin by calling the Badgers a “dirty” team. Should be fun tonight in East Lansing.
- Were the self-imposed penalties that USC placed on its basketball program too light? CNNSI’s George Dohrmann thinks so.