The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Show Me The Way Edition

Okay, the Director of Athletics of the Mississippi St. Bulldogs has apologized for the bad fan behavior in Starksville the other night.  Can we just move on?

Well, maybe not ...  Now for the rest of the news.

• Gettin' Greedy: Taking Big Ten Expansion to a Whole New Level - Maize n Brew
  Maize n Brew looks at some potential Big Ten additions, and Kentucky happens to be one. Fun read, as always, from a great SB Nation blog.

• Arkansas Isn't Leaving, but What if? - Team Speed Kills
  Arkansas won't leave the SEC for the Big 12, but if it did, who would the SEC seek out as replacements?

• UK faced grumps at ‘The Hump' | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal
  Junior Patrick Patterson, who tied the game with a 15-foot jumper late in regulation, finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds, joining Wall and Cousins to give the Cats three guys with double-doubles — the first time that's happened since 1977, when Jack Givens, Rick Robey and Mike Phillips did it.
  
  Wow. I didn't know it had been that long.

• DeMarcus Cousins Proves He Is SEC's Best Big Man
• What are the odds of Calipari taking the Nets’ job? | Vaught's Views

• Isaac Canaan Hits Shot of the Year in College Basketball
  You have got to see this!

• Bluegrass State Basketball - Great sportsmanship
  Why can't we see more of this?

• Chris Diggs - UK Fan | Can it get any weirder?
  Finally, you have to love Mississippi State junior Elgin Bailey. At the end of the game, as the teams are shaking hands, you can hear Cousins say to Bailey, "You're not going to shake my hand?" Bailey shakes his head no, behind another MSU player, and waits for Cousins to take another step away before he starts chirping at him.
  
  What brought on all this ethics-challenged nonsense out of MSU?

• Kentucky Sports Radio " Blog Archive " Coach Cal’s Postgame Press Conference
  Hilarious comments from Calipari. If you haven't seen it, you should watch it.

• Intentional Foul " DeMarcus Cousins Gets the Last Word
  Heh.

• Kentucky closer to historic year - Beyond the Arc - msnbc.com
  Thanks to an 81-75 overtime win against Mississippi State, the Wildcats are now 25-1 – the sixth best start in school history. Considering UK has won games at a higher rate than any other school in men’s NCAA D-I history (76 percent), it’s getting harder and harder to ignore what’s becoming an historically significant season.
  
  Coach Cal is moving up the list.

• Cousins is BOMC everywhere! - Beyond the Arc - msnbc.com

• Pilgrimage: Basketball e-Rupp-tion in Lexington - ESPN
  Awesome work by Eric Angevine of StormingTheFloor.net. Read the whole thing.

• Tiger Woods to break silence
  It's about time.

• Kentucky to Mississippi State: good team, bad fans - Rocky Top Talk
  Not much UT love going on for the 'Cats these days in the comments. Hate is good. :-)

• Dana O'Neil: All-access with college basketball referee Tim Higgins - ESPN
  This is simply a terrific piece by Dana O'Neil. Via Eric Crawford of the Courier-Journal.

• UK Notebook: Late timeouts couldn't help Cats avoid OT: AMNews.com
  I think Cal did all the right things here. It wasn't perfect, but his reactions were just what they should have been to the situations that presented themselves.

• Boeheim: UNC should be a tournament team - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
  I have just one word for this: Weak.