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Let’s get you warmed up for the first College GameDay road show of the season (live from Tallahassee, Fla. at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN) by taking a look at some notes and nuggets from our college hoops advanced stats research team (a group we call the "Stats in the Paint" team).

Saturday’s Matchups

(2) Kentucky at Tennessee, Noon ET

Key stat: In its first two conference games of the season, Kentucky has shot 50 percent against zone defenses and 39 percent against man-to-man. That’s noteworthy, because the Wildcats have faced zone defenses on about 60 percent of their offensive possessions in those two games.

(3) North Carolina at Florida State, 2 p.m. ET
Key stat: Though Florida State allows 87.1 points per 100 possessions on defense (13th in the nation), it has trouble on the offensive end.

The Seminoles turn the ball over on 26 percent of their possessions, worst in the ACC and 11th worst in the country.

Oklahoma State at (4) Baylor, 3 p.m. ET
Key stat: Baylor is averaging 9 steals per game, and 21 points per game off turnovers (best in the Big 12). That’s helped by Perry Jones III, who is 9-for-9 on transition 2-point field goal attempts this season.

Teams on the rise

• Murray State ranks 10th in the nation in transition points with 307. In three games against teams currently in the RPI’s top 50, the Racers shot 77 percent and averaged 23 points per game in transition.

• UNLV is averaging 113.9 points per 100 possessions this season, 15th most in the country. The Runnin' Rebels get assists on 65 percent of their baskets, 11th-best in the nation.

Teams that are flailing

• Pittsburgh averages just 56.1 points per game with its FIRST-chance on a possession this season, which is fourth worst in the Big East and ranks 52nd out of 74 Big Six conference teams.

• Opponents are shooting nearly 60 percent in transition against Xavier in the Musketeers’ last eight games; opponents were shooting 47 percent in transition in Xavier’s first eight games.

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

Among the topics Rece Davis, Digger Phelps, Jay Bilas and Hubert Davis plan to tackle:

Is Doug McDermott the new Jimmer Fredette?

McDermott entered Friday averaging 24.5 points per game, which ranks second in the nation. He’s made the most field goals in Division 1 (158) and is shooting over 60 percent from the field this season.

McDermott has scored 30 percent of Creighton’s points this season and takes 36 percent of the team’s shots while he’s on the floor, comparable to Fredette, whose rates were 36 percent and 38 percent.

Creighton has played three games against Big Six conference opponents this season (all wins).

In those games, McDermott shot 66 percent from the field. In four games against Big Six foes, Fredette struggled, especially in the half court. McDermott made two-thirds of his shots in half court, and averaged 1.28 points per play. Fredette only made 42 percent and averaged 0.95 points per play.

The big difference in their games is in trips to the free-throw line. McDermott is just 15th in the Missouri Valley Conference and 402nd in the nation in free throws made. Fredette ended the 2010-11 season ranked first in the nation in that stat.

Brothers leads Spiders
In three years at Richmond, Darien Brothers had only topped 20 points once. On Tuesday, he poured in a career-high 38 points in the Spiders’ 90-82 overtime win over Old Dominion. It was the most points by a Richmond player since Greg Stevenson's 38 in 2001. With 11 points in overtime, Brothers outscored the entire Old Dominion team. He joins former Kentucky Wildcats star Jodie Meeks as two of the four players in the past five seasons with at least seven 3s and 13 free throws in a game.

Towson loses 30th straight, among six winless
With losses on Tuesday, Towson and Grambling State remained winless on the season. They are two of the six schools still without a win (also Chicago State, Northern Illinois, Hartford, Binghamton).Things are particularly rough for Towson, which lost its 30th straight game. If the Tigers don’t beat Vermont on Friday, they will have gone a full calendar year without a win. Grambling State scored 40 points on Tuesday, and is averaging just 42.5 per game.

Sanders makes Vines Center history
Liberty’s Jesse Sanders handed out 16 assists in a 91-73 win over Montreat. That set a Vines Center record, and matched Kendall Marshall for the most in a game this season. It was three more than Sanders’ previous career high. Sanders joined Scott Machado and Marshall as the only players with 100 assists already this season. Sanders’ total could have been much higher. He notched his 16th assist with 5:52 left in the game.

Thrilling finishes on a quiet night
Despite a rather limited slate of games, Tuesday brought three big time finishes. Most notably, C.J. Leslie scored off of a full-court pass from C.J. Williams with 0.8 seconds remaining to give NC State a 67-65 win over Saint Bonaventure. Leslie had been held scoreless for the previous eight minutes. Norfolk State beat Toledo thanks to a Kyle O'Quinn's bucket with 2.4 seconds remaining. Western Carolina edged Bradley 68-67 thanks to a runner from Keaton Cole with 5.7 seconds to go.

Anson imitates Jimmer
BYU’s Anson Winder did something Tuesday that Jimmer Fredette only did five times last season. In the Cougars’ 93-78 win over Buffalo, Winder hit six 3-pointers. After scoring a combined 43 points in his first 10 games, Winder came off the bench for 20 points in this one. It was the most points off the bench for a Brigham Young Cougars player since Jackson Emery scored 23 last December. The Cougars also got career efforts from Brock Zylstra (26 points) and Matt Carlino (11 assists).

There's a basketball game on national television tonight, and Jimmer is playing in it.

For fans lulled to sleep by the NBA lockout and the lengthy college offseason, the Jimmer's All-Stars event on the BYU campus will feature the professional debuts of numerous NBA draft picks, including host Jimmer Fredette, fellow team captain Kawhi Leonard and national champion Kemba Walker.

The exhibition features numerous storylines that developed after Team Fredette coached by BYU's Dave Rose and Team Leonard coached by San Diego State's Steve Fisher conducted a draft to fill in the eight-man rosters.

Fredette and Walker, the native New Yorkers who led the nation in scoring last season, will be on opposite sides and square off for the first time.

Fredette and Leonard, whose college teams had epic showdowns last season that raised the profile of the Mountain West and resulted in a shared conference championship, will face off again.

Fredette's team includes fellow Sacramento Kings draft pick Tyler Honeycutt, whose former UCLA teammate Malcolm Lee is on the other side and has the distinction of holding Fredette to a season-low of 25 points in games BYU lost last season.

Former BYU guard Jackson Emery also returns to the Marriott Center for possibly his one and only professional game, as he'll team up with Fredette one more time after recently deciding to step away from basketball.

And for NBA fans looking to get a glimpse of first-round picks Bismack Biyombo, Chris Singleton, Tobias Harris, Nolan Smith and Kenneth Faried, here's your chance.

"The draft was a lot of fun and helped continue the buzz about the game on Thursday," Fredette said in a statement. "I'm excited about my team and I know Kawhi feels like he has a great squad as well. Personally, I'm really looking forward to playing one final game with Jackson in front of our home fans. We had so many great memories during our career at BYU and it will be fun to enjoy one last game night experience together at the Marriott Center."

The game originally scheduled in Salt Lake City as part as what was to have been a two-game exhibition series was canceled, so tonight's the night to tune in to BYUtv.

Basketball is being played again, and that's reason enough for excitement.

BYU is somewhat of a mystery team heading into its first year in the West Coast Conference, as the Cougars try to find an identity with Jimmer Fredette no longer measuring up shots from the parking lot and Brandon Davies still not yet officially on the team following last season's suspension.

So, while the team's preseason tour of Greece included some sightseeing, it was more of a fact-finding mission and included a detour. The Cougars were a late addition to a tournament that enabled them to play experienced national teams from Greece and Italy.

They lost to the Greeks by 29 and to the Italians by 39, but out of the routs came the emergence of a new leading scorer named Brock Zylstra, a 6-foot-6 junior and former walk-on.

Zylstra averaged 17.3 points and six rebounds on the trip, scoring 26 against an Italian squad featuring three NBA players in a performance that should give him confidence. No one is asking him to replace Fredette or start up Brockmania. But for a swingman who after serving a two-year mission in New Zealand has played 49 games in two seasons averaging 4.3 points for BYU without making a single start, this was a big moment.

And he wasn't the only impressive one in Greece. Senior Charles Abouo averaged 14.8 points and 8.3 rebounds while highly regarded freshman Damarcus Harrison averaged 9.3 points. With the addition of UCLA transfer Matt Carlino in December, coach Dave Rose should have many players to choose from following the departures of Fredette and Jackson Emery. Another newcomer putting up notable numbers was returning missionary Josh Sharp, who after spurning Utah was able to knock off some rust and average 6.3 points and 3.8 rebounds.

The Cougars come home with a much better idea of where they stand.

Jimmer Fredette hasn't played his final game at BYU after all, and when he returns, he's bringing his friends from the NBA.

Fredette this morning announced this morning he'll be hosting rookie exhibitions in Utah -- Sept. 21 at the Maverik Center in Salt Lake City and Sept. 22 at the Marriott Center on the BYU campus -- that will serve as his professional debut, but really be more like a rock concert.

He told KSL that many top draft picks are expected to play, including fellow national player of the year finalist Kemba Walker and fellow Sacramento Kings rookies Tyler Honeycutt and Isaiah Thomas. Coaching the teams will be BYU's Dave Rose and San Diego State's Steve Fisher.

"We knew that it would be something that would be fun for everybody here in Utah to be able to come and watch us play for two more times," Fredette said. Since there was an NBA lockout, we knew that we weren't going to be able to play much organized basketball, so it might be a good thing to get a couple games in in front of fans especially."

Fredette told KSL that proceeds from the game would go to a charity that raised awareness for the vestibular system brain injury that his older brother, T.J., still suffers the effects from today.

The fans are certain to pack both arenas. Consider that when Fredette traveled with BYU last season back to his hometown of Glens Falls, N.Y., people camped out for tickets and showed that Jimmermania was alive and well thousands of miles from Provo.

Most of Fredette's fans could only watch on television as Fredette played his final college game in New Orleans during a loss to Florida in the Sweet 16. A return to BYU for one more homecoming game would give them a chance to applaud the All-American once again.

BYU's Jimmer Fredette twice torched UNLV last season, going off for 39 and 29 points in two wins against the Rebels. But now, it's tales of Fredette's success that will undoubtedly be used to UNLV's advantage when it comes to recruiting.

That much became obvious when Dave Rice, the former BYU associate head coach and offensive mastermind, took the job at his alma matter. And according to the Las Vegas Sun, Rice smartly hasn't been shy about linking himself to Fredette's legend.

And once he identifies the players he believes fit it best, Jimmer Fredette's success story is one that he can pitch that will grab the attention of the high school players he's currently recruiting. It's a relevant trick he'll likely be able to pull out of his bag for many years to come.

"Jimmer deserves the bulk of the credit for what he became, but the reality is he had a lot of help from our staff," he said. "And so I think the thing that really speaks volumes is that he came to us as a good player, but did not come to us as a finished product. So, I think the fact that I can actually speak with credibility in terms of our role in helping him develop and the freedom we gave him and what that did for him."

Already, Fredette's national player of the year status playing under Rice has paid dividends at UNLV.

When 2013 recruit Christian Wood committed to UNLV, he noted to the Las Vegas Sun that Rice had coached Fredette and that associate head coach Justin Hutson had coached Kawhi Leonard at San Diego State.

When Baltimore point guard Daquan Cook decided to commit to the Rebels, his AAU coach told the Baltimore Sun, "Coach Rice, we researched him, and he did really well with Jimmer Fredette."

And then there's Katin Reinhardt, the former USC commit who UNLV is after and is already getting headlines as the "Next Jimmer." It might not be out of the question because Reinhardt has already heard that kind of talk from Rice, according to the Las Vegas Sun.

"He compared me to Jimmer Fredette a lot," Reinhardt said, referring to Rice's former star pupil at BYU. "How he let him play is how he'll let me play. That freedom, being able to do that stuff, that's what I look at. Look where Jimmer got. He went to the NBA as a lottery pick. So if you could get that kind of coach to be behind you 100 percent, that's everything you could ask for."

Who would have thought that UNLV's nemesis that is The Jimmer would ever help the Rebels in some way? It was already a little awkward when the Maloofs declared Fredette a Sacramento King with signage at the Palms.

But now thanks to Rice's presence, Fredette is helping out UNLV. He even released a statement that the Rebels put out on the day Rice was hired.

"Coach Rice has such a great feel on the offensive end," Fredette said. "Working with him these past four seasons has given me great confidence as a player. I'm glad to see him get a chance to be a head coach. He deserves it."

Scrappy Jackson Emery, BYU's all-time steals leader, has reportedly decided to retire from basketball and accept a job working for a start-up called EcoScraps.

He jokes that he has dropped basketball for dirt, trading in his high-tops for a position with a company that "collects food waste, which would otherwise be thrown away, and through a completely organic process turns it into high quality soil conditioner."

But to give up his basketball career at a time when earning an overseas contract during an NBA lockout is difficult leaves Emery with a bittersweet feeling. He tried to get a look, but ultimately decided to get into the business world instead, according to KSL.

Emery got workouts with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves with designs on landing a job in Europe, before calling it quits. "It's definitely hard," said Emery, "because any time you hang up your shoes and realize 'oh, this is it' -- that's never ever hit me."

"To hang it up and realize that it's over, it's tough. But that's life, and you've got to do what's best for you and your family, and I feel like this is the best decision."

Perhaps what I'll best remember about Emery was how a former Mr. Basketball in Utah and prideful player like himself comfortably deferred to backcourt mate Jimmer Fredette as Jimmermania swept the nation.

I watched Emery carefully when BYU held its first press conference at the NCAA tournament in Denver before the start of the opening round. He sat alongside Fredette as reporters directed their first eight questions to The Jimmer.

Finally, with the ninth question, it was a question for Emery.

This year you've been Jimmer-oriented on offense. How has that been for you guys, one guy carrying the offense?

Emery, the team's second-leading scorer, never flinched. He answered with compliments for Fredette.

Later in the locker room, a television reporter asked Emery what his favorite Jimmer sign was that he's seen from the crowd. "There are so many," said Emery, who finished the season with 101 steals and 97 assists against 35 turnovers. "I can't pinpoint one."

After the season, Fredette became a lottery pick while Emery's agent tried to arrange something overseas. In the end, it wasn't to be. Emery decided to go with the job offer that had nothing to do with basketball and everything to do with turning nothing into something.

Ever the loyal wingman, Emery is now taking his talents to a company founded by a high school classmate where he'll be working with compost.

"I've always had the dream of starting my own business or being part of a business that will thrive," Emery told the Daily Herald. "Even in school, I've had an entrepreneurial frame of mind. I always thought I'd be part of a business that will grow."

At BYU, he proved it.

The always-entertaining Isaiah Thomas conducted an online chat with the Seattle Times today and had some interesting thoughts. The former Washington guard likes UCLA to win the league if the Huskies don't, called the court at Oregon's Matthew Knight Arena "ugly," and also said of new Sacramento Kings teammate Jimmer Fredette, "He's like the Justin Bieber of basketball. Everywhere we go, people are crying over him."

The declaration from Thomas that should excite Washington fans was this:

Terrence Ross is the most talented player I've played with during my time at the UW.

During the three years Thomas was in Washington, he played with the likes of future NBA draft picks Jon Brockman and Quincy Pondexter. So that's a high compliment for Ross, the 6-foot-6 guard who made the honorable mention all-conference freshman team. Ross averaged eight points per game, and there have been other indications he's ready for a breakout season.

Percy Allen of the Seattle Times recently watched pickup games on campus and had this observation:

Even with NBA players on the court, at times Ross looked like the best player on the floor. Still if you were drafting a team of the players Thursday, the 7-1 [Spencer] Hawes would probably be the first person taken. But Ross would likely go No. 2. He thrives in an open-gym setting. He wowed the few folks in the stands with high-flying dunks, alley-oop slams and putback jams. Whenever anyone guarded him one-on-one, Ross either tried to blow past them with a dribble drive or he jabbed and whirled to create room for a fadeaway jump shot. Ross, a 20-year-old sophomore, also looks much more chiseled than he did last season.

That's great news for the Huskies, who will be looking for a go-to player after Thomas left for the NBA draft and Justin Holiday and Matthew Bryan-Amaning completed their eligibility.

A lot of the attention will be focused on the backcourt with the arrival of flashy freshman Tony Wroten and the return of Abdul Gaddy from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

But don't forget about Ross.

Wearing his trademark jean shorts and smile, Josh Harrellson tried his hand at tennis on Tuesday as part of a celebrity doubles match that included Kentucky assistant coach Orlando Antigua.

The results were predictable, meaning Harrellson got laughs for the way he dressed and attempted to channel his inner Novak Djokovic in imitating a tennis player, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

"I suck at tennis, so I at least have to look goofy," he said.

He wasn't kidding about his tennis skills, but he said the last time he played was in middle school.

Clearly not knowing the rules, Harrellson stumbled around while chasing balls all over the court, often hitting them into the net or out of bounds.

He barely made contact with the ball on one shot, which prompted him to jokingly complain about having a broken racket. He followed that up by launching a shot into the stands.

With the NBA lockout in full swing, Harrellson joked he might try other sports a la Chad Ochocinco and take up golf. Over the weekend, former BYU star Jimmer Fredette did just that at a American Century Celebrity Golf Championship and did something he doesn't do often.

The Jimmer finished last.

In fact, on the final day Fredette was paired up with the second-worst golfer there and heard trash talk from none other than Charles Barkley.

Fredette's best hole on Saturday was a bogey on the par-3 12^th. He stopped his 5-iron approach 10 feet above the hole, but three-putted to tie Barkley, who one-putted after a chip from across the cart path and through a stand of pine trees.

"You don’t have no short game like mine, so don’t be trying any of those shots," Barkley heckled Fredette after leaving himself a 5-footer for bogey.

It's good that Fredette and Harrellson are able to have some fun and laugh at themselves during an odd time in their careers when they've experienced the high of getting drafted and now have no contact with their teams.

Fredette will manage, of course. Shortly after his last-place performance, he held a kids camp and showed off the skill that made him famous.

Thanks to footage from BYUtv, even in the offseason, Fredette is scoring from Jimmer range.

The up-and-down style of play that BYU coach Dave Rose had used over the years got very much Jimmer Fredette-centric this past season, as the future lottery pick was able to shoot his way to national player of the year honors and lead the Cougars to the Sweet 16.

With Fredette gone, that creates opportunities for players to get more touches, and Rose will have to make some adjustments. He'll start by dusting off some of what worked for BYU long before handing off the reins of the offense to Fredette.

According to what Cougars forward Noah Hartsock told the Examiner-Enterprise, the style of play at BYU should be an attractive one to play within.

"When I talked to Coach [Dave] Rose, we talked a lot about how we’re getting back in the old system," Hartsock said earlier this week. "We're going to work back into a run-and-gun type of play and push the ball up the court."

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Although Hartsock said he understood the special talent Fredette brought to the program, he's looking forward to the old-new system that "will create a lot of shots for everybody up the floor. We'll look to shot the first open shot or work it down to the post and get it inside. I think it suits me really well."

Hartsock, who averaged 8.6 points last season, is one of two returning seniors who will help BYU build itself back up after losing Fredette. The Cougars expect to get forward Brandon Davies back after his honor code suspension, and will also welcome in new pieces to the puzzle in freshman DeMarcus Harrison and UCLA transfer Matt Carlino, guards who should help push the pace.

So without Fredette, BYU will undoubtedly have to tweak its offense. Having players sold on the changes and excited about implementing them is an early positive sign for the Cougars that life after Jimmer can come with a smooth transition.

BYU will become a member of the West Coast Conference on Friday, and if you look back on how all the expansion madness worked out, it was the WCC that came out a huge winner.

The league at this time last year had discussed adding another team, but wasn't expecting to make any moves. After a high-stakes game of musical chairs, it ended up that BYU -- coming off a year in which Jimmer Fredette led the team to the Sweet 16 -- was going to join the WCC.

Commissioner Jamie Zaninovich realizes just how fortuitous of a partnership this was, according to the Deseret News.

"We had been doing work on expansion, and had chosen not to pursue new membership," Zaninovich said. "But we had a full model in place. Those two weeks in August, I reached out to Tom [Holmoe, the athletic director] because I had a previous relationship with him. I said, 'Hey, I understand you're looking for a non-football conference.' That was a time when they were trying to figure out what their next moves were and whether they could put a football schedule together with a non-football conference.

"It was apparent to them, when they looked at the West Coast Conference, how closely aligned we were institutionally and basketball and otherwise, and what a good fit it would be. It's sort of like a job interview. You sit down and start talking, and you can tell pretty quick when something is a fit or not.

"One thing led to another and two weeks later, we were in Provo having a press conference. BYU certainly fits that mold very well. I don't think anybody thought of it as a possibility, but we knew what we were looking for and BYU fit that. That's why the deal came together so quickly. The presidents came to a strong consensus pretty quickly."

It's a good deal for the WCC, and you can expect BYU and Gonzaga to quickly start up a rivalry. They have the biggest home-court advantages in the conference and should compete annually for titles.

And for BYU, expect to see more of the team on television in the coming years. Jimmermania might be over, but moving out of the Mountain West Conference has its advantages going forward.

Jimmer Fredette and Kemba Walker will face off once again on the awards circuit, as the two were among the nominees for the ESPY for best male college athlete.

It was Fredette who swept the national player of the year awards after his senior season at BYU in which he led the nation in scoring. But Walker was the one who won a national championship with UConn. They'll be in competition with Auburn quarterback Cam Newton for the ESPY.

Walker's coach, Jim Calhoun, was also nominated for the ESPY going to the best coach/manager.

Butler's wild NCAA tournament win against top-seeded Pittsburgh was nominated for best game.

VCU's run to the Final Four was nominated for best upset after they defeated USC, Purdue, Georgetown, Florida State and Kansas. Rams coach Shaka Smart along with players Joey Rodriguez, Jamie Skeen, Ed Nixon and Brandon Rozzell are planning on attending the awards ceremony in Los Angeles in July.

"This is just a really cool opportunity for us and I'm blessed to be able enjoy it with some of my closest friends," Rodriguez said in a statement. "To be invited to one of the biggest nights in sports and in the same crowd as these superstars is something we'll never forget."

The NBA draft has become known as an event where players make fashion statements, stepping onto the runway while meeting commissioner David Stern. Being the best dressed or worst dressed Thursday night has no bearing on the court, but can create a certain amount of buzz.

It's clear that fashion is on the mind of many of this year's draft picks. Here's a preview and a compilation of some hints on what some of the top picks might be wearing tonight.

Arizona's Derrick Williams to Esquire: "Didn't want too baggy or too flashy, but didn't want a slim European suit, either. I stuck to my style -- classy -- and picked my favorite colors: black, red, and grey... I can't say what I'm wearing. Giving away your look before the event is like giving away your game plan."

Connecticut's Kemba Walker, from the New York Post: Asked whether it [his suit] might be something outrageous, Walker looked across the table at TNT's Craig Sager, the King of Outrageous alongside Clyde Frazier, smiled and said; "It's nothing like my man right here!"

Kansas' Markieff Morris, from the Lawrence Journal-World: After posing for the folks at NBA 2K12, Markieff stopped in the Sean John store to pick out a suit...

Providence's Marshon Brooks, from the Providence Journal: The suit, a classic light grey with a touch of lavender, is pressed and ready to go.

Tennessee's Tobias Harris to the Chattanooga Times Free Press: " I've heard it [fashion] is a big, but they call me 'All-Business' for a reason, so you know I'm going to pull out the nicest suit."

Texas' Tristan Thompson to the Canadian Press: "Let's just say that my colours will go with any team in this draft."

And finally, BYU's Jimmer Fredette:

National player of the year Jimmer Fredette sits down with the "PTI" crew to discuss his preparations for Thursday's NBA draft.

Which is not at all a surprise, of course. National player of the year Jimmer Fredette is a hero to his hometown denizens in Glens Falls, N.Y., and when he returned to play in front of the hometown fans in December, he was greeted with a hero's welcome. Not to mention a nice boost to the local economy.

But in case you were wondering -- and you probably weren't, but hey, maybe! -- if Jimmer Mania was going to die down in Glens Falls, well, wonder no more. It will not.

How do I know? I'd say the "Jimmer Jam" -- a party and skills competition scheduled for June 23, the night Fredette is expected to be taken in the first round of the NBA draft -- is a pretty good indicator that interest in Fredette remains high. Via The Post-Star comes an itinerary for the event, which is being put on by the Glens Falls tourism board at the local civic center and an adjacent park:

The skills competition is open to anyone from preschool age through senior citizens. [...] Other activities will include projection of television coverage of the National Basketball Association draft on large screens on the arena's main floor, interspersed with highlight videos of Fredette's college basketball games.

I would totally attend that party. Not for the draft coverage -- I can get that anywhere. No, I want to see the senior citizens of Glens Falls participate in a skills competition. Has some 65-year-old retiree mastered Jimmer's double-crossover? There's only one way to find out.