As Matt pointed out, Loyola-CHI and Richmond won the regular season. The former had 7 seniors and grad transfers, and the latter started 5 seniors. Smart says buck the trend - recruit HS kids and keep them (although the last point is easier said that done).

The wages of . . . wages?

From a very reliable source, the MSRP at Vanderbilt:

On the team = $100K
Starter = $250-350K
All-conference + $750K

I watched Colgate a lot. Smith is very good. Hate to see him leave my friend Matt Langel.

Cream rises to the top. Congrats

A good match. But he'll lose three times a year to my buddy's son at Colgate

Hopefully he helps DePaul improve to a one win team in the Big East

His twin brother road the pine at Northwestern (behind Matt Nicholson who averaged 5.3 ppg). A package deal?

Excellent news. Although you wonder how a kid from North Dakota at CU finds his way to Davidson. Guess the coaches are working hard

Duke now has two returning players. Madness.

Even though he is such a Duke homer, Feinstein loves college basketball as much as we do. Great piece. Thanks for sharing

Rolando Blackman had a great cover shot on SI

I heard the the "dalliances with Tyler Hansbrough's mother" list is a pretty long one. . .

Mark Pope. It'll be interesting to see how LDS plays in Lexington

To play for Musselman??? Good luck with that. . .

So the SLU job is better than Louisville? Denny Crum is rolling over in his grave