That is too bad, he's a hell of a player when he's healthy, he was being talked about as a potential lottery pick not that long ago. He was well below 100% all of last year though, and obviously still isn't back. Now even if he does get back to his old self his draft stock is going to get hurt because of the injuries. Guess I can cross Bama off my potential sleepers list too.

At least he can get a medical redshirt and come back next season. This does stink cause like you said he wasn't anywhere near 100 percent last season either. Hopefully he can actually come back, and get back close to, if not 100 percent. Alabama's bball team sure has went through a hell of a lot the last year.

Duke Crews suspended indefinitely. Obviously that's a huge hit for Tenn, we'll see how long he's gone for.

Our Midnight "Maroon" Madness is two weeks from today. Can't wait.

Ouch. Tennessee is already thin up front, that doesn't help. Pretty soon they're going to be going with the Villanova approach from 2 years ago. If he's out for an extended amount of time, that means 3 guards (Lofton, JaJuan Smtih, Ramar Smith), a SF (Tyler Smith), and one big man that doesn't play all that big (Chism) with little backing them up unless someone steps up.

Well our first exhibition game is tomorrow. At this point, I couldn't care less that it's just an exhibition, I just need to see these guys play. I can't freaking wait.

First game of the season is also on Monday with Memphis in action. The season is finally here. Yayers!!

It has been upset central to start the season.

MSU loses at home to Grand Valley state
Garnder Webb beats Kentucky
OSU loses to Findlay

Its going to be a fun year again.

derrick rose is amazing. he'll be playing with minnesota next year

66-8 in the past 2 seasons with 2 elite 8 seasons, and now they add rose with the same team as last year. thats hardly "over-rated"

A fair number of teams could roll up that record in Conference USA. That league is AWFUL. And while the results look good, their only good tournament win was Texas A&M (which was playing really poorly down the stretch and relying far too much on Law) with the others coming against North Texas, Nevada, Oral Roberts, Bucknell, and Bradley. Heck, even during the regular season last year the best team they beat was Kentucky (Actually, this group hasn't beaten any really good teams, their good wins came two years ago with Carney, Williams, and Washington doing most of the work). They also barely shot 40% from the field in the tourney last year, that doesn't exactly scream elite team. They've been a heavy jump-shooting team that often struggles with shot selection, and they turn it over a lot as well. They're far from an un-beatable juggernaut.

They clearly have talent, Rose and Douglas-Roberts are beasts, but we're not really going to know how good they are until the tournament. Their toughest tests will be fairly early out of conference and they're going to steam-roll through their league. From what I've seen I could see them losing in the Sweet 16 depending on the bracket or going all the way if Dozier/Dorsey hold up well against better competition.