This is the time of the year where everyone starts jumping on or off at team’s bandwagon when it comes to NCAA worthiness. You see a team that is 16-7 this week will lose two, and be 16-9 at weeks end…thus putting them on the wrong side of the bubble. On the other-hand, a team in the same situation will win two and be poised to coast into the post season. It usually is an overreaction, because schedules and the such mean much more, but what would college ball be without bracket talk?

That’s for you Clay Aiken…The buzz around the college basketball world after this past weekend can be thrown towards the Atlantic region of the United States, and it’s not from the Big East. The Atlantic 10 has 6 teams staring down the barrel of the NCAA Tourney gun. While they’ll probably end up with 4, it’s always fun to hear my other alma mater in the discussion. (That the University of Dayton, for those unfamiliar)

I had a buddy that went to Dayton for his freshman year…We never heard from him again.  If there was going to be a year that a bunch of mid-majors make the tournament, this would seem to be it.  However, you could see the committee tip their hands to teams like Northwestern and Minnesota instead.

Leaving them on sturdy turf…Little has been made of the Arizona self imposed sanctions, because they’re really not anything that is going to cripple the program. Still with the Pac-10 at a crossroads in dominance, you hate to have to give up a scholarship.

If we have to discuss Pac 10, how do we not mention Kevin O’Neill..?you would think a guy who seemed to receive the raw end of the stick so many times would show just a hint of compassion.  Poor kid never saw it coming.

A little lesson…Illinois students, you have completely lost all privileges that come with your seating arrangement when you rushed the court after beating a team that was without their best player, and wasn’t ranked #1. Terrible . Awful. Embarrassing. You were just in the Championship game a few years ago…You only get to rush the court when.

1) Your a garbage team that pulls a very unexpected update (say if LSU had knocked off Kentucky Saturday)
2) You win your conference for an auto-bid to the dance (only small schools with tournaments at home)

The rest is garbage and should be deemed a violation of student policy, leading to a one game suspension of the student section.

I knew they were going to rush the court, I just knew it…Those guidelines seem to be pretty spot-on. I would also suggest two huge rivals (think UNC/Duke), with the home team winning on the last shot also makes it okay to rush the court.

I was a little embarrassed when Michigan State rushed the court after knocking off #1 Wisconsin a few years ago at the Breslin Center.  Yeah, that was probably the worst MSU team since Izzo took over, and we only had one guy that could score,  but we will still went to the second day of the tournament that season.   It is as if students just want to be able to say that they rushed the court while in college, so they take what they think is their only shot.   But they are wrong in doing so.

The team no one is talking about…They probably won’t make the tournament, but you have to look at what Stan Heath has done at USF. Heath was fired from Arkansas for not being Nolan Richardson. He was signed by USF because he had tourny street cred. USF didn’t. In fact the school has some of the worst facilities in the nation and spends diddly on their basketball program. Someway, somehow with Dominique Jones leading the way, this school is sitting pretty in the middle of the Big East.

Stan Heath was never given a really good chance at Arkansas…Nolan Richardson sabotaged the start of his stint there crying racism and players quitting, then Al Jefferson broke his commitment to go to the NBA instead.  With all that, he was able to improve their play each season and earn two NCAA tourney bids in row before they forced him out the door.  Not surprised by his success at USF already.  Oh, and you know where he was an assistant, right?

Blah…Assistant for Izzo…Whoo-hoo! I care more about the fact that he was the college coach of Antonio Gates. And remember Trevor Huffman? That was a freaking team.

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