2. Crowding in
Lunardi has the most teams coming from the Big Ten and the Big East - eight each - while Palm goes for one more from the Big Ten and one fewer from the Big East. Palm likes Northwestern, but Lunardi doesn't. Lunardi likes Cincinnati, but Palm passes. They also disagree on the number of Atlantic Ten teams, but they concur on the inclusion of Temple - a No. 10 in Greensboro, N.C., vs. Seton Hall in the first round (Lunardi) or No. 9 vs. Alabama in Pittsburgh (Palm). The Owls are the only City Six team that appears in either bracket.
3. Huggs bugged
Few coaches can get right to the point better than West Virginia's Bob Huggins. Huggins might have the best player in the Big East in Kevin Jones, who leads the conference in scoring (20.9 points per game) and rebounding (11.6), but he sometimes gets little help from his teammates. "I asked all our guys that think they're so good, 'Where would we be without No. 5?' " Huggins said Wednesday night, referring to Jones, after the Mountaineers were hammered by St. John's. "He's the most valuable player in the country, and he's playing with all those freshmen who can't pass and don't pass him the ball."
4. Hole in the Orange
Sophomore center Fab Melo is likely to miss his third straight game for Syracuse on Saturday, ESPN.com reported, because of what a source told the website is an academic issue. The 7-foot Melo is the No. 2 shot-blocker in the Big East at 3.0 per game and leads his team in rebounding with a 5.7 average. The university has not said why Melo is out, and a school spokesman quoted coach Jim Boeheim as saying that Melo's problem was taking longer to clear up than first anticipated. The Orange, 1-1 with Melo out, host West Virginia.
5. Bo not a fan
