The Daily Read

This is the best day of the year and today's Read is loaded to the brim. 
Blair Kerkhoff, a Basketball Times contributor and Kansas City Star columnist, ponders an interesting question: How has Kansas managed to avoid the NIT like so many fellow bluebloods? 

The sleaziest coach in a sleazy game? A former Basketball Times regular casts his vote for John Calipari, from Charles Pierce of Slate.com.

On the heels of a first-round loss in the NIT and a scathing article from America's newspaper of record, Seton Hall dismisses Bobby Gonzalez, from the New York Times. 

Now this is interesting.  This time around, legendary high-school coach Bob Hurley would listen if Seton Hall called, from the Newark Star-Ledger. 

Should the NCAA admit that its players are professionals?  This questioned is posed by Basketball Times correspondent Marc Isenberg for U.S. News & World Report.

Championship Week proved that West Virginia's Da'Sean Butler has become a college hoops A-lister, from the Wheeling News-Register.

To hell and back, Todd Bozeman making the most of his second chance, from the Washington Post.

A long journey from Puerto Rico to Topeka, Kansas State's Denis Clemente prepares to take his last shot, from the Topeka Capital-Journal.

After reluctantly moving from Division II to Division I, Oakland coach Greg Kampe has found his dream job, from The Detroit News.

Checking in at 7-foot-8, college basketball's tallest player hits Kansas City, from the Kansas City Star.

With three teams in the Dance - Clemson, Winthrop and Wofford - South Carolina rates as hoops hotbed, from The State.

An interesting read from Grundy County in Illinois: The evolution of NCAA basketball coaches and the 'Big Dance,' from the Morris Daily Herald.


The story of David taking a run at Goliath -- an apparel underdog is outfitting 15th-seeded Robert Morris, from the New York Times.

Everyone loves March and Los Angeles Angels slugger Torii Hunter has a huge rooting interest, from the Los Angeles Times.

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