Got more coach scoop for you. The five finalists for the best remaining vacancy, at New Orleans, are as follows:

(Drum roll, please)

Georgia Southern coach Jeff Price; former Georgetown star and assistant Jaren Jackson, a New Orleans native; Texas A&M assistant Buzz Williams; Oklahoma City's Ray Harper; and Cal assistant Joe Pasternack, a New Orleans native.

Better late than never, I got my first recruiting letter from a Big East basketball program today.

Technically, it wasn't a letter but a cell phone text message. It was half-motivational, half-advertising. Here it is:

"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to." Keep working and keep thinking (school name removed) and the Big East!!

For kicks I called the coach and left a message, telling him I was ready to commit. Don't laugh -- I can shoot the rock. Can't dribble and won't pass, but I can shoot it. Anyway.

I then told the coach his text message didn't go to the recruit he was trying to woo, but instead went to me. Told him he might want to try that recruit again. So the coach sent me another text:

Gregg ... it WAS meant 4 you!!! Not only motivating future (school stars), but sportswriters as well! Hope you are having a great Spring.

Yes indeed. And my commitment is firm. Unless one of those creative SEC schools -- and you know who you are -- wants to sweeten the pot for this 5-foot-10 shooting guard.

Toronto won the NBA Draft lottery, which means no team stands between the Raptors and their 14th consecutive drafting of a power forward. To Chris Bosh, Charlie Villanueva and Dolph Schayes, the NBA's Canadian franchise will draft Texas power forward LaMarcus Aldridge.

There's a reason the Raptors are in the lottery every year.

Elsewhere in the top five, we here at CBS SportsLine.com -- OK, me -- see the following picks unfolding:

2. Chicago: The Bulls go for a Dukie every year, but Josh McRoberts didn't enter the draft, so Chicago will ask native son Coach K whom to pick instead. Coach K will tell them to get that freak from LSU who butchered the Blue Devils in the NCAA Tournament, Tyrus Thomas. And to take Sean Dockery in the second round.

3. Charlotte: Going for another fan-friendly lottery pick, the Bobcats will give former North Carolina stars Raymond Felton and Sean May some help by picking former Duke shooting guard J.J. Redick. The Bobcats won't win 25 games next season, but they'll avoid the Les Robinson Play-In Game at the 2007 ACC Tournament.

4. Portland: In its continued quest for character and a cornering of the market on point guards, Portland drafts former UConn probationer Marcus Williams.

5. Atlanta: Atlanta doesn't know what it's going to do. And even if Atlanta did, I don't care enough to make a joke. The Hawks will probably just trade this pick anyway for Blue Edwards.

A scurrilous rumor making the rounds in Washington D.C. must be addressed.

The rumor: Maryland assistant Rob Moxley left the Terps last week for Charlotte because he has been assured he will replace 49ers coach Bobby Lutz whenever Lutz moves on.

It's bogus. Is that clear enough? It's not true. It's not close to being true.

The fibber isn't Moxley or Lutz. The fibber is someone at Maryland -- I'm guessing it's that dude who screams and sweats all the time -- who has tried to cover his program's receding hairline by combing over Moxley's departure.

See, it looks bad for Maryland to lose an assistant to Charlotte ... unless Charlotte can promise the assistant something Maryland cannot. So the story leaking out of Maryland is that Moxley left the Terps because he feels he will be Charlotte's next coach.

Poppycock. The athletics director at Charlotte, Judy Rose, isn't going anywhere any time soon -- and it's not her style to let Lutz or anyone else dictate to her. Whenever Lutz moves on, Rose will hire his replacement on her own. And it probably won't be Moxley.

Moral to the story? Maryland needs to take this public relations hit with its chin up -- and its mouth shut.

Nobody likes a liar.

Turns out, Mike Jarvis was innocent.

Of course he was. He says he was innocent through carefully crafted written responses to NCAA questions -- and the NCAA, lacking subpoena power, had no choice but to accept Jarvis' explanation.

So of course it was St. John's director of operations Alex Evans who gave former Red Storm player Abe Keita $300 a month -- for 3½ years -- for humanitarian expenses like video games and tip money at strip bars. Including a one-time donation of $2,400 for tuition fees, Keita received almost $10,000 from the St. John's coaching staff.

Oops, sorry. Not from the St. John's coaching staff. From the St. John's director of basketball operations.

Of course Keita got the money from -- and only from -- Evans. Evans was rolling in dough, considering he was a lowly administrative assistant in the most expensive city in America. Evans was probably tipping doormen with $20s and lighting cigarettes with $100s. Made of money, those administrative assistants.

Evans reportedly told the NCAA that Jarvis provided some of the money for Keita, but neither Evans nor the NCAA could prove it.

Of course not. Even if Evans were telling the truth, cash is untraceable -- and Jarvis wouldn't face the NCAA interrogation in person.

So Evans gets a three-year "show cause" penalty from the NCAA, ending his career for the short term and probably for the long haul as well. St. John's gets two years of probation and a few lost scholarships.

And Mike Jarvis? You can find him on ESPN, talking about college basketball.

Me? You can find me turning the channel.

Immigration policy has seeped into college basketball in recent years because of two foreign-born guards, Oregon's Churchill Odia and North Carolina State's Gavin Grant.

Odia, a native of Nigeria, missed his senior year of high school at Montrose Christian in Maryland because of visa issues. He avoided deportation shortly thereafter when he married a U.S. citizen.

That allowed Odia to suit up for Xavier in 2004-05, where he became one of the biggest busts in recent college basketball history. He sat out last season as a transfer at Oregon, where he will benefit from the superb coaching of that crackerjack staff.

Grant, a native of Jamaica -- and a much better player than Odia, if anyone is wondering -- apparently has six weeks to prove himself worthy of U.S. residence. He faces a June 27 hearing in federal immigration court in Atlanta, where the burden will be on his side to prove that he was officially inspected by U.S. immigration personnel in 1994 when he first arrived in this country.

Grant has lived in the United States for the past 12 years, and in the meantime he -- like Odia -- has married a U.S. citizen. Grant reportedly has a 1-year-old child with the woman, his high school sweetheart.

That's not enough for immigration officials, who are as sentimental as ironfisted former NCAA czar Ced Dempsey. If current NCAA president Myles Brand were running U.S. immigration, Grant would be a U.S. citizen and Bob Knight would be deported.

If only ...

Can we agree on something, please? Can we agree that I, as the college basketball analyst for CBS SportsLine.com, ought to be privy to all sorts of insider information that you, as a reader, are not?

Good. Thank you. There is a point to this.

Here it is: There is an axiom in college basketball that says when an elite recruit drags out his recruitment late into his high school senior season, something funny's going on.

What does funny mean? Not sure. My insider information only goes so far inside the rabbit hole. But the point is, McDonald's All-American Darrell Arthur still hasn't picked a school, and after announcing earlier last week that he would pick a school on Monday, he canceled the press conference.

Apparently Arthur will decide today. We'll see. The longer this goes, though, the higher the eyebrows are raised all over college basketball.

Bottom line of this Dribble: The NCAA, being all about due diligence, might want to give the recruitment of Darrell Arthur its due diligence. Because it sure does look like something funny's going on.

There's a scene in Jurassic Park that reminds me of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. No, it's not when the T-Rex eats the cow. I'm more subtle than that, thank you very much.

OK. The scene. Here it comes:

It's when the main scientist realize that, despite breeding same-sex dinosaurs, his creations have begun reproducing anyway. Jeff Goldblum's character tells the scientist, "Life finds a way."

Goosebumps.

As for Coach K ... he finds a way, too.

Last week his program was teetering on disaster for the 2006-07 season. Freshman Josh McRoberts was considering leaving for a place in the 2006 NBA Draft lottery. The only other ACC-caliber big man on scholarship -- the only one -- was freshman project Brian Zoubek.

Duke was in big, fat trouble. And then Coach K found a way.

He talked McRoberts into staying in school. He talked 6-foot-8 New Jersey native Lance Thomas into choosing Duke over hometown Rutgers.

And so Duke's not in big, fat trouble any more. The rest of the ACC -- other than North Carolina -- is in big, fat trouble.

And, Coach K eats cows.

I wasn't going to touch this one. Really. Dan Monson's a good guy -- a clean, clean coach in a dirty, dirty business -- and it's not fun to speculate on such a guy's demise.

But something has happened and now, well, this has to be done.

There are several pieces to this puzzle, so pay attention. Your comprehension is beyond reproach. It's my writing that concerns me. So rise above my incompetence and try to follow the trail:

• Monson was close to being fired this season by Minnesota, so close that at least one state newspaper reported it as fact in late March. The speculation immediately grew that Monson, if fired, would take the vacancy at Idaho -- where his father, Don, is the most beloved coach in school history. Turns out, Monson kept his Minnesota job.
• Literally within hours, Idaho stopped its national search and promoted from within, giving the head coaching job to George Pfeifer. Keep in mind that Pfeifer was on the staff that last season went 3-25. A crowd-pleasing hire, that was not.
• And so of course the thinking -- OK, my thinking -- is that Idaho knows Monson could be out of a job next year, and that hiring Pfeifer for one year makes more sense than investing a fatter contract on a coach from another school. Because next year, Monson is coming to Idaho.
• Finally, and here is where it gets good: Former Minnesota guard Miles Webb chose a four-year college after spending this past season at a junior college. And that four-year college is: Idaho.

You with me?

Idaho wants Monson next year. Monson knows he might go to Idaho next year. And if he goes there, Miles Webb will be waiting for him.

Could be nothing but my speculation. But give me credit: My speculation is cool.