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Despite losing a tough game to Michigan State at home yesterday, the Illinois Fighting Illini have been an overachieving team that has had an unexpectedly great season thus far, in large part to three lightly-regarded seniors who have certainly earned their scholarships after not looking like much during the majority of their careers.

While one Packer – Brett Favre – asked for his release today, another Packer – Billy – amicably parted ways with CBS Sports after being the network’s lead college basketball analyst for what seemed like forever but was actually 27 years. Replacing the often irritable yet highly knowledgeable Packer will be the stat-sheet stuffer himself, Clark Kellogg, who will be paired with Jim Natz during the 2009 Final Four.

A little more than three months ago, Davidson College – a small liberal arts school near Charlotte, North Carolina – took America on an unforgettable ride in the NCAA tournament, slaying some of the most successful basketball programs in recent memory before coming within a last-second, missed three-pointer of defeating eventual national champion Kansas in the Elite Eight. Any fan who fell in love with Davidson’s selfless style of ball and its lifer coach Bob McKillop will want to catch up on these articles from the weekend detailing the current whereabouts of Davidson’s outstanding backcourt, silky-smooth shooting guard Stephen Curry and very steady and underrated point man Jason Richards.

by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com

The second half of 1996 Kentucky and 1995 UCLA is going down to the wire. The Bruins have seemed left for dead at various moments in this game but are staging one last rally. Can Kentucky and its suddenly cold shooting hold on? Tyus Edney has the ball late in his hands with a chance to tie or win the game for the Bruins. Kentucky fans are cringing as Edney makes his way up the court.

(Disclosure: I went to the University of Illinois and am not writing this column about Indiana Head Coach Kelvin Sampson because of the Eric Gordon saga. I could care less about Gordon’s decision, even though, it was a bad one. In one year at Indiana, Gordon won’t learn much under Sampson. In one year at Illinois, Bruce Weber would have improved his game. Weber is simply the better coach and the better person.)

Well look who’s at it again! Indiana Hoosiers Head Coach and perpetual scumbag Kelvin Sampson finds himself in the center of more recruiting violations, once again getting nabbed for making impermissible phone calls to recruits.

Sampson was tight-lipped this afternoon as reporters asked him about the 10 impermissible phone calls that he admitted making to IU basketball recruits. Amazingly, Sampson was found guilty of the same cheating prior to leaving Oklahoma for Indiana after the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

It’s very unfortunate that a guy like Sampson, who is liked by most of the national media because he is typically very accessible to them, continues to break the rules. College recruiting is as about as dirty of a business as there is, and Sampson is a king of filth.

by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com

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