It's the time of year when stories pop up far faster that we can catch and blog them. Greenberg and others have storylines for games ahead:

NC State vs. UConn: did you know that NC State post Gillian Goring would have gone to UConn had she been academically eligible?

Marist vs. Tennessee, Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma: so much for all those complaints about the Region of Death. Ole Miss sports blogger Robbie Neiswanger has more. (For more on Marist, see everyone everywhere.)

Rutgers vs. Duke: the Blue Devils are still favored, but if they win, it won't look like this.

Also, refs praise last night's officiating. Sometimes the beauty lies in the calls not made: could BGSU have been T'd up for the celebration at the non-end of the game, when announcers and players thought the game was over, but Liz Sherwood had fouled Kate Achter with 0.4 seconds to go?

I hope such a call would have been plainly wrong, but I'm afraid it was a matter of judgment: certainly a T in that situation would have landed the ref in the doghouse for all fans not native to Nashville. The Bowling Green men lost this year on an end-of-game technical, but the situations weren't similar at all. Last night coach Miller acted fast to keep his team aware that the game had not ended: good for him.

Speaking of Bowling Green, the closest good daily newspaper to BGSU had a hoops blogger right there. Maureen Fulton reveals, among other things, that Achter and Flynn consider themselves long-lost sisters, and that Achter's final, made free throw-- which closed out the box score at BGSU 59, Vandy 56-- was supposed to be an intentional miss.

Also in the Toledo Blade today: Fulton follows Falcons fans who drove to East Lansing, and columnist Dave Hackenberg profiles ponytailed BGSU star Ali Mann.