• You may be surprised who the only 11-0 team in college basketball is. Look no further than Cleveland State, whose own coach admitted after Tuesday's 94-62 shellacking of NAIA West Virginia Tech that he wouldn't have expected his team to be unbeaten at this stage of the season. "I knew we'd be good," Gary Waters told the Plain Dealer. "But I didn't know we'd be undefeated."
• As rosy as the future looks for St. John's with all its new recruits, the present looks a little dimmer after the Johnnies fell at home 67-66 to St. Bonaventure. St. John's has nine seniors and legitimate NCAA tournament aspirations, so it can't afford to suffer upset losses to middle-of-the-pack Atlantic 10 teams considering the Big East gauntlet that awaits in a few weeks.
• A season-opening blowout loss to Syracuse and a two-point setback at Milwaukee suggested that this year's Northern Iowa team was nowhere near the caliber of last year's, but Tuesday night probably cemented that. The Panthers shot a woeful 17.9 percent in the second half and finished 6 of 30 from three-point range in a 51-39 loss to Big Ten bottom feeder Iowa.
• Maybe the only thing uglier than Valparaiso's hideous yellow-on-gray jerseys Tuesday night was Purdue's stagnant first-half offense. Fortunately for the Boilermakers, guard E'Twaun Moore got rolling in the second half and scored 14 of his game-high 23 points, helping the Boilermakers survive a raucous road crowd and pull away for a 76-58 victory.
• With an update from the NCAA due any day now on the status of Kentucky's request to take another look at the Enes Kanter case, SportingNews.com's Mike DeCourcy reexamines where the case stands. DeCourcy appears more optimistic than most that Kentucky could get its freshman center back, which of course would vault the Wildcats right into the forefront of the title picture.
• For the fifth time in eight games this season, Georgia proved its mastery of close games by eking out a victory by three or less points. Guard Dustin Ware hit his seventh three-pointer of the night with 15.3 seconds remaining, breaking a tie at 70 apiece and propelling the Bulldogs to a 73-72 win over rival Georgia Tech.
• The six freshmen DraftExpress.com's Jonathan Givony believes are performing well enough to be one-and-dones are Duke's Kyrie Irving, Kentucky's Terrence Jones and Brandon Knight, Ohio State's Jared Sullinger, Baylor's Perry Jones and Tennessee's Tobias Harris. Conspicuously absent: A certain preseason All-American from North Carolina.
• Good story from my colleague Matt Norlander about the unexpected rise of Virginia Commonwealth guard Joey Rodriguez, who was all set to transfer to a Division II school back in Orlando when coach Anthony Grant left for Alabama. Instead Rodriguez had a change of heart and returned to VCU, where he has now blossomed into one of the team's best players and a bonafide conference player of the year candidate.
• Tuesday night's comfortable 86-50 victory over woeful Texas A&M Corpus-Christi took a turn for the worse for Marquette when senior forward Joe Fulce crumpled to the floor and had to be helped off the court after aggravating a left knee injury. Said Marquette coach Buzz Williams, "He's got a shot knee; it's been shot. I would say it's completely shot. That's all I know."
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