Three things you should know before you go
1. The Michael Beasley show will resume Saturday against Oklahoma State. The Kansas State freshman is now averaging 25.3 points and 12.3 rebounds for the 20th-ranked team in the country. Those numbers rank fourth and first nationally.
2. No. 3 North Carolina and Clemson will play Sunday. It'll be the second meeting of the season between the two schools, the first being last month's contest in which Wayne Ellington hit a last-second 3-pointer to give the Tar Heels a 90-88 overtime victory. The starting point guards in that game were Ty Lawson and Demontez Stitt. Both are now injured (Stitt is recovering from knee surgery and Lawson has a sprained ankle), and it's unclear whether one or both or either will be in uniform.
3. No. 4 Kansas won't get to rest before Monday's big game at 12th-ranked Texas. The Jayhawks will host Baylor on Saturday night in a matchup of two of the Big 12's best teams before hopping a plane and tipping off against the Longhorns 49 hours later. Meantime, Texas is playing at Iowa State on Saturday afternoon.
Final thought: Another week, another coach goes down.
But this one is different because it'll start the domino effect that's always crazy.
No more John Brady at LSU means LSU needs a new coach, and the first place the school will look is Southern California's Tim Floyd. It's no secret LSU has always been Floyd's dream job because he's from the area. But living in Los Angeles -- and coaching in the new Galen Center -- is kinda dreamy too, and the early word out of Baton Rouge is the school might not be willing to pay the type of money it would take to lure Floyd from the sweet situation he's enjoying.
If LSU won't pay, Floyd probably won't move -- in which case some obvious targets are Virginia Commonwealth's Anthony Grant, Ole Miss' Andy Kennedy and Washington State's Tony Bennett. But for the sake of argument, let's pretend Floyd does move to LSU because that's when things could get really silly.
Would Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon then take the Southern California job?
(Perhaps. But I'm not sure he'd want to battle UCLA's Ben Howland).
Would Xavier's Sean Miller then move to Pittsburgh?
(Definitely. He would move to Pitt in like 1.2 seconds)
So yeah, the speculation is endless and head-spinning and tiresome.
But we're going to ride this coaching carousel again this March, for sure.
And, as always, a bunch of men with whistles around their necks are going to get rich in the process.
