Pull up a chair and sit down at the breakfast buffet, an assortment of all the freshest newsworthy college hoops stories on the net. To make a submission, contact me via email or Twitter.
• It's not often we get a potential national championship matchup in November, so let's relish Tuesday night's Duke-Kansas State showdown in the title game of the CBE Classic. The Blue Devils pulled away late from a game Marquette team thanks to a huge 25 points and 12 rebounds from big man Mason Plumlee, while the Wildcats throttled struggling Gonzaga behind 18 from Jacob Pullen.
• Old Dominion broke open a tie game with six minutes to go and defeated Xavier 67-58 to win the title game of the Paradise Jam tournament and strengthen its non-conference resume for an at-large NCAA tournament bid. The Monarchs also notched an important one-point victory over Clemson in the semifinals the previous night.
• For 25 minutes of Michigan State's 82-74 victory over Chaminade on Monday night, the Division II Silverswords looked capable of rekindling memories of their historic victory over top-ranked Virginia in 1982. Michigan State eventually seized control with a 20-3 second-half run, but with 7-foot USC transfer Mamadou Diarra and a host of shooters, don't be surprised if Chaminade gives somebody else fits in Maui this week.
• A sign the WAC is no longer either relevant or salvageable: Lightly regarded Sun Belt programs aren't even interested in joining. North Texas took one look at WAC commissioner Karl Benson's offer of membership on Monday and without so much as a second thought told him, "thanks, but no thanks."
• Normally an 83-74 victory at Wake Forest would be monumental for Winthrop, but these days it's tempting to say it wasn't even an upset. That's how bad things have gotten for the rebuilding Demon Deacons, who previously lost at home to Stetson and Virginia Commonwealth and continue to get little to no rebounding or scoring in the paint from their frontcourt.
• My favorite part of Yahoo! Sports' Jason King's Q&A with Frank Martin was definitely this philosophical moment from the always entertaining Kansas State coach. "You know what makes me sick to my stomach?" Martin said. "When I hear grown people say that kids have changed. Kids haven't changed. Kids don't know anything about anything. We've changed as adults. We demand less of kids. We expect less of kids."
• Give Mississippi State credit for continuing to keep its undefeated record intact as it waits for Renardo Sidney and Dee Bost to gain eligibility later this season. The Bulldogs improved to 3-0 on Monday with an 82-76 victory over a Detroit team expected to be Butler's primary challenger in the Horizon League.
• Dayton kept its undefeated record intact on Monday night, but a 61-59 victory over woeful Savannah State felt more like a loss than a win to the Flyers, especially since they had to survive a potential game-winning three-point attempt. "We thought we were just going to go out and beat them," junior guard Paul Williams told the Dayton Daily News. "That's what all 16 of us were thinking, and they gave us a run."
• Winning the third-place game of a preseason tournament is rarely momentous, but Clemson's hard-fought 64-58 overtime victory over Seton Hall could turn out to be significant by March. Both teams project to finish in the middle of their respective conferences and both could very easily wind up on the NCAA tournament bubble.
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