BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — The Walsh exhibition opener is in the rear view mirror; the pre-season game vs. always tough (currently ranked #7 in the NABC DII Poll) Findlay is this weekend. It’s time for Archie and the Boys to take a look at where they are and where they are headed.

— CollegeChalkTalk.com says that Chris Johnson is the best SF in the conference:

http://collegechalktalk.com/conferencenotebooks/atlantic10/A10-s_Best_Series-_Ranking_the_Players

While newcomer Kevin Dillard does not crack their Top 5 point guards:

http://secondarybreak.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/a10s-best-top-5-point-guards/

I bet if you asked KD, the only PG rankings that really matter to him are the ones at the end of the season.

— Paul Williams is on the 2nd Team of MLive.com’s “Michigan Prep Alumni College All Americans”:

http://blog.mlive.com/highschoolbasketball/2011/11/michigan_prep_alumni_college_a.html

— There are changes on the way for college hoops recruiting:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7128757/changes-way-college-hoops-recruiting

These are the actual revisions that the NCAA Division 1 Board of Directors approved:

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2011/october/board+revamps+mens+basketball+recruiting

And here is what several college head coaches — including Archie Miller — think about the new rules, courtesy of the always-appreciated free link to an article from Scout.com:

http://scouthoops.scout.com/2/1122333.html

— Jeff Goodman’s Conference Countdown from CBSSports.com has the A-10 checking in at #9, which is about two or three places too low:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/15805234/conference-countdown-no-9-atlantic-10

— UMass is abandoning the Dribble Drive Offense this season so its creator, Minuteman Assistant Coach Vance Walberg, is taking the Mass Pike out of town:

http://eye-on-college-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/33070477

— I am of the opinion that we can always use another Flyer hoops website around here…the more the merrier! Here is a link to a relatively new that one I had never visited before called “The Flyer Reel” run by Christina Chaffin:

http://theflyerreel.wordpress.com/

— Arch provides a superb update in the DDN on Dayton HS basketball legend Dwight “The Blur” Anderson, now serving as an Assistant Coach at Fairmont HS in Kettering:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayton-sports/high-school-sports/win-win-situation-for-fairmonts-bias-anderson-1276891.html

— Kyle Whelliston lays out his vision for The Mid-Majority’s “All of Us” approach to covering 800 games this season in his initial blog post.

Hint: It does not involve Whelliston traveling all over creation and sleeping in his car:

http://www.midmajority.com/p/2023

— Ken Pomeroy is going to a subscription model for his KenPom.com website:

http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/an_important_message/

Buh-bye, Kenny!

— The latest analysis from The Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective deals with how much Las Vegas learns about college basketball teams as the season progresses:

http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/how-much-does-vegas-learn/

— One of the oldest big-man practice regimens in existence is “The Mikan Drill”:

http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2011/10/27/blogger-spotlight-hoops-fundamentals-with-the-mikan-drill/

I once snagged Big George’s autograph at the NBA All-Star Game in Boston Garden in 1964. Don’t ask me what the heck I did with it!

— The 10th annual “Flyin’ to the Hoop” HS tournament will once again be loaded:

http://flyintothehoop.com/

— “The Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes to us from former WSU Coach Paul Biancardi, now a College Hoops analyst at ESPN.com:

“CBB teams after playing their first scrimmage and or exhibition game. Now you begin to see Separation on your roster! PRACTICE never lies.”

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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