on an inbounds after a score, if the Ref hands or passes you the ball, you can only pivot, you CANNOT run, jump, or it is a travel. 

After a score if you grab the ball or a teammate passes it to you, then you can definitely take those steps or jump pre-inbounds, but again not ever if the ref hands you the ball. 

Mountain West College Basketball Team Preview for 2014/15

Here is my projected order of finish in Mountain West and a short preview of each team.

San Diego State—The Aztecs will be a team that clamps down on defense as past teams coached by Steve Fisher have done. Winston Shepard will be the leader and he will be aided by Dwayne Polle, Matt Shrigley and a couple of freshman Malik Pope and Zylan Cheatham. This team will dogfight with Boise State for a…

Late last night, we posted a column on how the only person that has been -- or will be -- negatively effected by the NCAA's scholarship reductions at UConn is Michael Bradley.

Long story short, UConn is at their maximum allotment of scholarship players because, thanks to the Nate Miles sanctions and two scholarships lost due to their low APR, they are only allowed 10 this year. But Andre Drummond, who is going to be a lottery pick whenever he decides to head to the NBA Draft, wants to go to UConn, so in order for the Huskies to make room for him, they need a player currently on scholarship to no longer be on scholarship.

That player has to be Michael Bradley because, according to the NCAA rulebook, he wasn't technically a recruited player. Drummond was. So was everyone else on the UConn roster. And if you are technically a recruited player, than you count against the scholarship limit regardless of whether or not you are on scholarship. That's why Drummond can't simply pay his own way.

The question that I got asked, however, was what makes you technically a recruited player? And with a hat-tip to the ByLawBlog's John Infante, I give you Rule 15.02.8:

For purposes of Bylaw 15, a recruited student-athlete is a student-athlete who, as a prospective student-athlete: (Adopted: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11)

(a) Was provided an official visit to the institution's campus;

(b) Had an arranged, in-person, off-campus encounter with a member of the institution's coaching staff (including a coach's arranged, in-person, off-campus encounter with the prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's parents, relatives or legal guardians); or

(c) Was issued a National Letter of Intent or a written offer of athletically related financial aid by the institution for a regular academic term.

This is where it gets tricky.

Drummond was recruited by UConn, meaning that he is going to count towards their scholarship limit regardless of whether or not he is actually on scholarship. Bradley, however, was also "recruited" to UConn. He took an official visit and actually signed a letter of intent.

But there is a way around that thanks to Rule 15.5.1.2.1, which states that "a student-athlete who was recruited ... and whose only source of institutional financial aid is academic aid based solely on the recipient's academic record at the certifying institution, awarded independently of athletics interests and in amounts consistent with the pattern of all such awards made by the institution, may compete without counting in the institution's financial aid team limits, provided he or she has completed at least one academic year of full-time enrollment at the certifying institution and has achieved a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.000 (on a 4.000 scale) at the certifying institution."

So there you go.

Since Bradley has complete one academic year at UConn, if he is carrying a GPA above a 3.0 he can get an exception that says that the financial aid he receives won't count against UConn's scholarship total. And given the fact that Bradley spent most of his teenage years in a group home, if he truly does have a 3.0, I don't think it will be difficult for UConn to find a way to get the cost of his education covered.

Jim Calhoun just took the NCAA's cookies.

No NBA plays tonight. We were going to bet the Celtics in Honey Nut Melo II, but after seeing tonight's ref assignments (Crawford/Bavetta), we're passing.

2 plays in college hoops:

UCLA +9

We're back on the college hoops wagon...

Indiana  -7

Butler -1

A couple of NBA games...

Atlanta -2.5

Memphis -1.5

Houston -1

And a plethora of sweating in the NFL playoffs...

San Francisco -3

Teaser: Denver -3.5 and New England -3.5

Teaser: Denver -3.5 and UNDER 52

Anthony Davis. PF (Kentucky)

Harrison Barnes. SF (North Carolina)

Thomas Robinson. PF (Kansas)

Terrence Ross. SG (Washington)

Andre Drummond. C (Connecticut) 

Terrence Jones. PF (Kentucky)

Bradley Beal. SG (Florida)

Meyers Leonard. C (Illinois)

Kendall Marshall. PG (North Carolina)

Damian Lillard. PG (Weber State)

Dion Waiters. SG (Syracuse)

Jeremy Lamb. SG (Connecticut)

Michael Kidd Gilchrist. SF (Kentucky)

Austin Rivers. SG (Duke)

Tyler Zeller. C (North Carolina)

Quincy Miller. SF (Baylor)

Perry Jones III. PF (Baylor)

Jared Sullinger. PF (Ohio State)

Royce White. PF (Iowa State)

Marquis Teague. PG (Kentucky)

Arnett Moultrie. PF (Mississippi State)

John Henson. PF (North Carolina)

Fab Melo. C (Syracuse)

Jeff Taylor. SF (Vanderbilt)

John Jenkins. SG (Vanderbilt)

EAST REGION

Apparently something is happening with basketball. Your Tumblrer doesn't know much about this, except that her husband is filling out a bracket and keeps shaking fists in the air and saying something about Otto the Orange.