My thoughts from last night:

• I was shocked to see Alcorn State lose at home to Prairie View, which was the one loss of the night in the highlighted games. In a game where neither team was stellar on paper, the Braves were the better team going in and there is no reason for the loss. Delvin Thompson, the Braves' leading scorer did break double digits again, but he was overshadowed by Phillip Scott from Prairie View who bucketed 26 in the win. I guess Alcorn State will have to wait until it plays another bottom dweller in the conference for its first Division 1 victory. It shouldn't take too long in the SWAC.
• Two other things I did not count on last night: Wichita State losing to Manhattan at home, and UM-Kansas City beating IUPUI on the road. The Shockers were undefeated and the Jaspers had not been playing well, starting the year with a 3-4 record. Wichita State was cold from the floor, shooting at 35% when they normally are 10 points better. Manhattan able to better them by just a bit to get the edge. Wichita State is still 2-0 in the Missouri Valley conference. They will need to not have a repeat of last night if they hope to survive in a very tough year in the Valley. In the other game, it looks like Kansas City just wanted it more. They were led by Quinton Day with 21 points and had three other players score in double figures off the bench. They were almost 50% from three point land too while holding the Jaguars to only 33% shooting. IUPUI isn't the team they were a year ago, but they still have talent. It just didn't come to play on Monday.
• The combined first wins and first losses from last night bring the number of undefeated teams down to 6 and the number of D-1 winless teams to 4. I still have a chance to have my prediction to come true. If only Savannah State had played a little better last night...
• Reggie Love broke a bone in his foot and will be out anywhere from 3-6 weeks depending on how fast he heals. With Shavlik Randolph out suffering from Mono, Love was counted on to fill some of the holes on the inside. His solid play so far had earned him the start against Clemson this past Sunday. Will his injury hurt the Blue Devils? You bet. Can they still win? Yes. This does leave them even thinner inside though and any significant foul trouble by Sheldon Williams will start to make the Duke coaches sweat a little more. As I said earlier, Duke will be in trouble if they are ever in a game against a good big man and their shots aren't going in. This was obviously the case for the first half on Sunday until J.J. Redick got rolling. Now, with the reduced depth, this weakness will be even more apparent. You know Coach K is hoping Love heals quickly.
• I am going to start an All-Bad Hair team. During breaks in the Sugar Bowl, I flipped over to see what I could of the LSU-Utah game. Utah's leading scorer and rebounder, Andrew Bogut, has one of the most plastic looking hair styles I have ever seen. He must have used an entire bottle of something to get his hair into the lacquered helmet-like style that he showed on Monday night. To make it worse, the Aussie is obviously doing it on purpose and this was not a bad hair day. They showed the media picture of him during the game and, in that, he was sporting a long blonde cut. That's a far cry from the short black riot gear he had on Monday. Bogut is therefore my center on the A-BH team. I will also be adding Matt Gibson from Hawaii to this list. In their game against Fresno State last week, he had quite mess working on his head. With a guard and a center so far, I need three more players to round out this fine coiffed group. And with these two, I might be able to field a pretty nice starting five with the right additions. Nominations are always welcome.

Enjoy the football game tonight.