It's Monday, so start with Dick Jerardi's weekend wrap in the Daily News.
It's also Big Monday, and the Bill Raftery Show comes to the Wachovia Center tonight as 'Nova hosts No. 9 Pitt. In the Daily News, Dana Pennett O'Neill profiles the basketball bloodlines of Panthers guard and Friends Central grad Mike Cook. In the Inquirer, Shannon Ryan writes that the Wildcats will try to do unto Aaron Gray as they have unto two other big men this season, Roy Hibbert and Kevin Durant.
At the other end of Broad Street, and speaking of Philly-Pittsburgh games, Temple's Dionte Christmas suffered a laceration on his left hand at Duquesne on Saturday. That's his non-shooting hand, but it required 17 stitches. He's questionable for the game at Richmond on Wednesday.
The Penn student paper reports that a football game took place at the Palestra on Saturday, while a columnist says that the worst is over for Penn.
National news after the jump.
If this letter to the Syracuse basketball writer at the Syracuse Post-Standard is true, a Division I coach opted not to have his team foul the other guy in order to stop the clock. I have a hard time believing that actually happened, even if the game was on national TV and I watched a bit of it.
Stanford beat UCLA at basketball and apparently at volleyball as well, leaving Arron Afflalo literally in tears after the game.
This piece was a Sunday story in the Lexington Herald-Leader but contains more interesting observations about the Wildcats and the SEC than you're likely to see in the next few weeks combined.
That's it, believe it or not.
