Daily Skinny (Sept. 9)-Matt Painter, Notre Dame, Pierre Henderson-Niles

[coolhandgopher]

Pretty light day for college basketball news, but some interesting nuggets nonetheless:

Matt Painter was interviewed about his Purdue team and although many of the answers were pretty boiler plate, I thought the health of Robbie Hummel, the legal issues of Lewis Jackson, and Painter’s recruiting of Branden Dawson were interesting tidbits:
http://blogs.post-trib.com/osipoff/2009/09/matt-painter-talks-purdue-bask.html

Yeah, that’s Notre Dame’s problem, not enough offense. And what’s Mike Brey doing talking in the third person?:
http://www.sportingnews.com/college...-look-get-back-ncaas-through-improved-scoring

I’m not sure if you know Pierre Henderson-Niles, but he was the rotund big man who played a few minutes in the national championship game for Memphis a couple years ago. It’ll be interesting to see how the weight loss translates to his on-court success this season:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/12175418

 

[SelectionSunday]

Sounds to me like Brey hasn't figured it out yet. Irish aren't going anywhere significant in the tournament until they at least learn to defend a little bit.