The Boubacar 2/28/2008 (Senior Night Edition)
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. -- One of the great traditions in college basketball is Senior Night, the last home game of the regular season. All outgoing seniors, no matter if they were four-year starters with awards and all-league selections, or guys who played the parts of opposing players on the practice squad, averaging 0.2 points and 0.1 rebounds in limited minutes.

Prologue - Everything's Different Now
I was behind the wheel of a rented Hyundai Elantra, at a rest area off the eastbound lanes of Wisconsin's Interstate 94. I was in between -- headed to the airport in Columbus, Ohio, via Indianapolis, en route from a first-weekend subregional NCAA Tournament pod in Minneapolis. I had been on the road for five long months, and it was time to go back home to Rhode Island.

Give Lester Hudson a Nickname
On Saturday, I drove down from St. Louis to see Tennessee-Martin play Tennessee Tech. It was no six-hour journey, and things weren't too much different from the last time I came down, but I definitely encountered a Ben From Cincinnati Effect there at the Elam Center. As always, TMM takes its role as a conduit for change very seriously.

The Games of the XII Olympiad
And, of course, we're thinking about the profound, outsize effect those cancelled Summer Games had on the evolution of college basketball's premier event: the March Madness of the NCAA Tournament.

Game 7-052 South Dakota at New Jersey Tech
The last time there was a Chat Block, a loaf of bread cost a quarter. But those were only the loaves in the week-old bin, inedible by humans and only suitable to be crumbled up and given to birds. We're back on the Block after a 14-day absence, just as we embark on our final long road trip of the regular season. or anything else you can think of.