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News/Analysis
- NCAA Admits Backcourt Violation Call Was Incorrect. Syracuse Fans Feel So Much Better: “So there you go, the back-court violation call on Scoop Jardine late in the Syracuse-Marquette game was officially deemed incorrect. Alrighty. It’s a gesture from the NCAA but an empty one at best. Especially when NCAA officiating coordinator John Adams says the play was not reviewable anyway. Thanks, John Adams. So basically what you’re saying is you’re officials made a terrible call on what should be a very straight-forward basketball rule but even if it was evident at the time that it was a bad call, it couldn’t have been overturned anyway because, well, who the hell knows.” (Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician)
- Bruce Pearl’s Greatest Hits: Why We Love Him Anyway: “I wrote the bulk of this post last night, before Tennessee released the statements of Mike Hamilton and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek saying that they were essentially left with no choice but to withdraw their support for the retention of Bruce Pearl because of additional unspecified NCAA violations and some non-NCAA issues as recently as a couple of weeks ago. I went to bed thinking I wasn’t going to be able to use this because the support and love we’d shown the coach throughout the past several months always assumed that his misdeeds were behind him and that the alleged bump violation was really nothing more than an allegation of something that didn’t actually break the rule. An “additional violation in March” shatters that assumption and blows the argument up.” (Rocky Top Talk)
- Bruce Pearl Fired, Tennessee Recruits Look Syracuse’s Way: “As you know by now, Bruce Pearl has been fired as the head coach of Tennessee basketball. My favorite part of the story has to be that Pearl was STILL committing violations as recently as this month. That’s cramazing. So now Tennessee commences falling apart and returning to the middle of the SEC pack (Sorry, Tobias). As Pearl goes, so go his sterling recruiting classes, including those in the current one. And it looks like at least one member of the Vols’ 2011 class is going to look at Syracuse.” (Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician)
- Tennessee Basketball Coaching Candidates: “Moving forward, the Vols find themselves with a unique situation that will require a unique individual. In many ways, this is a much more attractive job than it was six years ago: you can win here, and we have new and improved facilities to back it up. Thompson-Boling is an NBA arena for a college team, with attendance over 19,000 on average the last six years. Those are facts no other team with an opening right now can compete with. It’s not written on every one of the candidates listed below, but just assume “We have better facilities” is a factor with all of them.” (Rocky Top Talk)
- Previewing Big Ten Basketball for 2011-12…You Can’t Look Ahead Too Early: For some teams it is never too early to think about next season. (The Daily Gopher)
- NCAA Tournament Southwest Region: Heading to the Alamo: “Four teams remain in the Southwest Region. To no one’s surprise, one of them is the #1 seeded Kansas Jayhawks. The other three you might not know as much about. Let’s take a look at them each of the potential hurdles standing in front of Kansas in San Antonio on the road to the Final Four.” (Rock Chalk Talk)