Some more interesting college basketball news...

Jimmer Fredette gets the first POY award...
today he has been named the CBSSports National Collegiate Player of the Year...
http://is.gd/Vw2yL9



Another couple head coaches fired...Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Perry Clark and Kennesaw State's Tony Ingle.....
One Illinois kid on TAMU-CC's roster will be familiar...Demond Watt played at Thornton Fractional North for ex-Bradley Brave Tim Bankston.



A couple top level recruits, Devauntes Smith-Rivera (Xavier) and Michael Chandler (Florida) met in a Sectional game in Indianapolis last week and a fight/brawl broke out...
players have been suspended and the IHSAA officials are still reviewing tapes and suspending more kids....
The video of the brawl can easily be found doing a search......

Indiana fans are pretty bummed...they figured by now they'd be a winning team -- three years into the Crean era...still a bottom dweller, though...


Here's a nice, LONG article on Peoria's Bill Cole...

"Bill Cole Not Ready To Conclude Career"
http://illinois.scout.com/2/1053753.html

Here are a few excerpts...I especially like the one wheery game or losing every game, you're gonna have a couple people on you. We know we have real fans out there; we know they're supporting us. You hear stuff, but you've just got to block it out and play your game."



The Bulls are fun to watch.........if they can land one more good SG they will be tough to beat in the east...I am hoping for a couple Celtic losses and get the Bulls the home court all the way through...