Nothing in the world of NCAA men’s basketball recruiting mattered until today, as the presumed No. 1 recruit, Andrew Wiggins, finally made his decision about which school he’d attend for one year before declaring himself eligible for next year’s NBA Draft. A 6-8 forward, Wiggins was the American Family Insurance ALL-USA Player of the Year and averaged 23 points per game for Huntington Prep, and his slam dunk mixtape had some people calling him “The Canadian Jordan”.

Every bigtime program in the nation was recruiting this 18-year old phenom, including Florida State, which had its best and brightest (above) turning up the fire for his recruitment. And a lot of people predicted that he’d follow in the footsteps of other bigtime one-and-doners like Anthony Davis and Nerlens Noel by attending Kentucky.

But they were all wrong, as Wiggins announced that he will play for the Kansas Jayhawks next season. In the wake of his decision, there is a ton of hate being spewed at Wiggins on Twitter right now, so I thought we’d examine one of my favorite hateful Tweets and shake our heads at some others.

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Yesterday, we mentioned that Adidas was teasing NCAA men’s basketball fans on Twitter with small glimpses of some special new Adizero uniforms that eight teams would be wearing in the NCAA Tournament this year. Today, as you can see above, we know exactly what those uniforms now look like, as six teams’ new duds have been revealed.

Scrolling through Twitter, people are pretty torn on these strange camouflage and sleeved revelations, and I have to say that I’m firmly entrenched in the “The f*ck? Eh, whatever” camp. Short of setting players on fire, I don’t see what the big deal is with Adidas trying something new, even if the new unis look like someone raided a child’s Zubaz rack at Marshall’s.

I guess if I had to scorn any of these uniforms, I’d choose the Kansas and UCLA gear, because I feel like both of those programs have always had classic looks. At the same time, though, I think the Baylor uniform looks awesome. So it is what it is, I guess. I just think the real shame is not making Duke players wear pink jerseys with flashy sequins and shoes filled with broken glass. Let’s get to work on making that happen, Nike.

I know you will all be watching Monday Night Raw on the heels of last week’s “Not terrible” show, especially since The Rock will be appearing tonight to say witty things that people repeat in unison. I’ll probably be watching, too, since post-NFL season Monday nights are boring as hell. However, there’s a very good chance that I’m going to be watching ESPN Classic during the commercials, as the WWL’s throwback channel will be airing an episode of Battle of the Network Stars.

The original celebrity competition reality TV, Battle of the Network Stars should still be around today, especially on ABC. Just thinking about Manny from Modern Family being shot into the sky as a human cannonball and all of the things that could possibly go wrong just makes me smile. It’s so much better than J-Woww belly-flopping into a pool.

Please bring back Battle of the Network Stars, ABC. Or at least let TLC have the rights so they can load their show casts up with anthrax.

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Yesterday, before all of the awesomeness went down and our brains collectively melted and boiled until nothing was left, we briefly discussed the rise of the popular Twitter account @KUboobs, which celebrates Kansas Jayhawks basketball with breasts. Specifically, the account accepts and Tweets mostly-SFW photos that female KU fans send of their cleavage and whatnot. I believe that the late, great comedian Patrice O’Neal had a more technical name for it all.

Since the account was created last February, KU Boobs has amassed more than 22,000 followers, which doesn’t sound like much for a sports fan account, but the bulk of those fans have arrived over the past several weeks as perv-o bloggers like yours truly have caught wind of this delightful new trend. And yesterday, I, like many others, made the request – nay, DEMAND! – that other schools take up this new trend and display the boobular support for their men’s basketball teams.

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I have a confession to make – since my favorite NCAA men’s basketball team, UCF, is currently serving a one-year postseason ban for all sorts of cheating goodness, I’ve been a little less than enthusiastic about the 2012-13 season. However, I did start catching up the other day for the sake of giving some more coverage around these parts, and what I’ve learned is:

• Kentucky sucks.
• UNC sucks.
• Duke is starting to suck.
• Louisville is awesome.

I’m sure there’s some more important information that I need to catch up on, but the people on the Tweeters, as well as my crack research team and fact checkers have told me that the above information is completely correct. That said, I have apparently been missing the hottest gimmick Twitter account on this entire planet in @KUboobs, which is nothing but pictures of female Kansas Jayhawks fans showing off their rock and chalk, so to speak. And this has been around for almost a year. Shame on you, research team.

Look, I’m usually the first to decry a worn out or retread meme or Internet fad. But all of you female coeds out there, from the University of Miami to Washington State, listen to me very clearly – DO THIS FOR YOUR SPORTS TEAM. Seriously, start a new Twitter account now – like @ArizonaStateBoobs, for example, and by example I mean someone specifically do that one now – and get your school’s female fans to show their mostly-SFW pride for their college basketball team. Let’s ride this one out for all it’s worth until someone inevitably starts @PrincetonBulge and it’s all ruined.

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Okay, well technically it was the easiest joke of 2012, because Olivia Wilde attended the Kansas Jayhawks’ 89-57 drubbing of American University this past Saturday night. So why was the most amazingly GIF-worthy woman in the world at the Allen Fieldhouse, torturing all of those Jayhawks men and their sucked-in guts? According to her Twitter, it was because she wanted to give the team… *ahem* some pointers.

I’ll bet she did. Take it away, rimshot monkey!

In reality, she was there to support her boyfriend and delightful comedic actor, Jason Sudeikis, who, as we have pointed out previously, is quite the awesome Kansas sports fan. Sure, he’s no Jon Hamm in a Cardinals hat, but I’ll still give credit where it’s due. And I imagine that the Jayhawks fans were pretty excited about this, so let’s see what kind of response Olivia drew on Twitter, shall we?

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