All the News That's Already Reported

Some quick links I haven't seen elsewhere:

Gary Williams' complaints about the MVC have resulted in an interesting response - MVC schools calling the scheduling offices. Maryland's never displayed a lack of scheduling fortitude as far as I know, and I think next year's expectedly poor Terrapin squad would still have a good chance against the Bears. I hope the deal goes through.

And yes, it took me a couple of minutes with google to find out the mascot for Missouri State (neé Southern Missouri State).

Also, King Kaufman has a good column on big conference teams tanking their tournaments that also mentions how said big confrence tournaments don't pull in the big bucks. The glaring exception to both of these trends? The ACC, naturally.