Game! Of! The! Night! Dec 17 - Indiana State at Butler
With Missouri State's loss the other night in Arkansas, there are only two unbeatens left in the Mid-Majority. Seven-and-oh Iona is one, a bunch of Terre Haute Trees who have won their first five are the other. Led by TMM favorite David Moss (20.8 ppg), Indiana State heads to Hinkle on the heels of two impressive home wins over Indiana and Ball State.

Flight 605 · YUL to OAK
"We were promised a free 8x10," the patriarch stated flatly, jabbing his finger for emphasis. "And that's what we're leaving here with today. Don't even try with the expensive portrait package, I've heard how you people operate. Your company has a reputation, you know."

2005 Sun Belt Summer Session
Traveling men In its current incarnation, the Sun Belt Conference reaches from Denver University to Miami's Florida International -- a breadth of 2,097 miles, more than 93 percent of this year's Tour de France. It might take you about day and half straight to drive its length, and at least a month to walk it. If the Sun Belt were a fashion accessory, it might fit Argentina or India. Barely.

Tourney Central 3/11/2005
Life is different here on First Round Day. While the quarterfinals and semis match up teams with 20 or 25 wins, the opening games usually feature squads who willed their ways to 10 or 11. Aside from the occasional Wagner or Oakland, everyone knows that virtually none of the competing teams will win the tournament.. so expectations, aspirations and attendance figures aren't the same.

The State Of The Other 22, Week 11
The State of College Basketball is a brand-new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 341 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four in a simulation of last season.