The State of the Other 22, Week 13
The State of College Basketball is a relatively 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 344 (here's the long-winded version). This is the full chart, and this is a recording.

MMBOW #13 - Lester Hudson, Tennessee-Martin
Sure, we have our favorites. There are players who we enjoy watching endlessly, the mid-major stars who have stood in this space for the past five years and have gone on to great and lucrative levels. Lester Hudson is our eighth, tenth and now 13th Mid-Majority Baller of the Week for the 2008-09 season.

Let's Play Five
The first snowfall is like the first seasonal anything - the first skinned knee of the summer, the first sniffle of the autumn. There's a little bit of a shock, and then when it happens again you're used to it.

You Have to See the MVC in Person
OMAHA, Neb. — For most casual hoops fans, especially those outside the nation’s heartland, the Missouri Valley Conference is more of a theoretical basketball construct than an actual league. Each March, great teams magically emerge from Midwestern cornfields, striking fear into the power schools from the East and West coasts.

Wicke a superhero on, off court
If it wasn't for Andy Wicke, Belmont might have been just another flattened No. 15 seed. In one of the most memorable first-round games from the 2008 NCAA tournament, the then-junior came off the bench to bury five of his seven shots -- including four long 3s -- for 14 perfectly timed points. With Wicke's help, the Bruins came within a single point of shocking two-seed Duke.