Dribblings 2/16/2005 (Rowdy & Wacky Edition)
Mid-American: Two games last night in the East division. In yesterday evening's G!O!T!N!, Buffalo (16-7, 9-6 MAC) kept Kent State in check on their home court, 77-66. Turner Battle had 22 points and helped power a 17-5 second-half run that brought Buffalo back from a nine-point halftime hole. That's three in a row for the hot ticket Bulls, who move into E2 position by a half-game.

Ace's Ivy Insights!
All well-earned due respect to the National Invitation Tournament, but you won't find a more boisterous bracket than the septuple-elimination slate in the Ancient Eight!

Game 7-098 NIT Second Round
There is one National Championship. Everything else is just low-rated cable programming. Lose the wrong game at the wrong time, and you end up here -- in basketball purgatory. On the other side, a few thousand fans who can't let go of the dead season. This is a curtain call.

The State Of The Other 22, Week 15
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.

Good Morning Hoops Nation December 15
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Let's get this out of the way first: the Atlantic 14 owned this weekend. Pwned it. The A-14 was in yr weekend, steelin yr basketballz. This conference put such a stamp on the last two days that the second weekend in December should be a three-day hoops holiday, by proclamation of Myles Brand and Mayor McCheese. I can't underline or overstate this enough.