The Daily Read: Fab 15, ACC News & More

The Daily Read: Fab 15, ACC News & More

Basketball Times' Preseason Fab 15
1.    Kansas
2.    Texas
3.    Villanova
4.    Purdue
5.    Kentucky
6.    Michigan State
7.    Duke
8.    Butler
9.    North Carolina
10.    West Virginia
11.    Mississippi State
12.    California
13.    Tennessee
14.    Ohio State
15.    Siena

Next Monday: BT predicts all 31 conferences.

Now on to The Read ...
* The New York Times' Jack Styczynski, a friend of BTO, offers his lastest installment on coaching tenures.  Interesting stuff, as always -- "Not only has the 15-year streak of at least 40 Division I coaching changes come to an end, but there were barely 30 this year.  That translates to the lowest percentage of coaching changes in a quarter century."

*  The ACC is packing up its tournament and moving it to Philips Arena for the 2012 season, reports
Carroll Rogers of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

*  More from ACC Country:  Coach K is planning on coaching until he can coach no more, according to a notebook from Jack Carey of USA Today.  Speaking of Coach K, his Blue Devils split the first-place votes with rival North Carolina in the league's preseason poll during Sunday's ACC Media Day.  It was "the first time in the 41-year history of the preseason media voting process there was a tie atop the ACC preseason rankings," according to Steve Yanda of The Washington Post.


*  These two stories date back a couple of days, but are worth checking out.  Blair Kerkhoff, a Basketball Times contributor, writes in The Kansas City Star that the Big 12's swarm of talented freshmen would be wise to look up to their elders.  Also, Rick Bozich, a longtime BT contributor from The Courier-Journal, checked in with a great piece on the rocky road awaiting Rick Pitino.

*  In BTO's Sunday night post, we offered a feature on Kansas being the No. 1 team in the land.  Today, Basketball Times alum Dana O'Neil, explains how the Jayhawks need to move past self-inflicted distractions that tainted the team's preseason.
 
*  The latest on Coach Cal and Kentucky, from Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

*  Louisville freshman Peyton Siva endures a frightening collision to score 21 in a team scrimmage, according to C.L. Brown of The Courier-Journal.