The KFC Yum! Center, despite its awful name, is one of the gems of huge basketball arenas. Opened in 2010, the arena is in downtown Louisville on the banks of the Ohio River, and can hold over 22,000 fans for basketball games.

That's the good news. This, of course, was all possible due to $349 million in taxpayer dollars that were used to construct the arena.

The 2012 financials have just been released by the Louisville Arena Authority, and this is where the good news ends.

After experiencing a breakout year as a sophomore, a lot is expected of North Carolina's PJ Hairston. But his offseason has gotten off to a rocky start with word that he was arrested wednesday night for possession of marijuana as well as driving without a liscense.

#BreakingNews - @unc_basketball player PJ Hairston arrested on drug charges.PJH out on bond.#UNC is aware, waiting to comment #ABC11

— Derek Rowles (@DerekRowles) June 6, 2013

In recent years over 400 players have been transferring each college basketball season. With 347 Division I teams, that's more than 1 player per team per year. If the number of transfer per team were represented graphically, the most likely shape of that graph - like a lot of things in life - would be represented by a bell curve. On one of the extremes would be programs who haven't been affected at all by transfers. On the other end would be programs extremely affected.

Interpreting that data, however, would lead to speculation. It would be easy to say the former teams have stable coaching staffs who are honest and easy to relate to. Meanwhile, it would be just as easy to speculate that the latter teams have serious internal issues.

But without evidence, it's just speculation. It's possible that a team which has lost a ton of players is just an outlier. With 347 teams, it's natural that a few would be outliers. Weird things happen.

With that said, what in the world is going on at the University of San Francisco? Head coach Rex Walters lost six players following the 2011-12 season, and after this season he's lost four more.

Last year Dez Wells was kicked out of Xavier following accusations of sexual misconduct. The Michael Dixon case at Missouri certainly isn't a direct parallel, but there is enough similarity that it merits mention. Michael Dixon was booted from the Missouri basketball team following his second accusation for misconduct. But the first alleged victim didn't end up pressing charges, and the 2nd case was tossed for lack of evidence. The reason that this is important - in basketball terms - is because Dixon doesn't qualify for the graduate transfer waiver, and so he needs a hardship waiver in order to be immediately eligible. Dez Wells was granted a hardship waiver because he had been kicked out of school over a case which never ended with any charges being levied against him. Now Dixon is in similar straights.

Assuming he receives a waiver to play immediately, Dixon will add to what is already a deep and talented back court. Due to Memphis's thinness in the front court, this should lead to near constant 3-guard rotations with regular looks into 4-guard territory.

Last year Florida State had three players on the roster who were listed at 7' or taller. They were also a poor rebounding team. The way this worked on Twitter was that their competition would begin grabbing boards and fans would explode with indignation that guys that tall couldn't get a rebound. "Just put your hands up!" "YOU'RE FREAKIN 7' TALL!!"

This made we wonder what the ideal height is for a rebounder (limited to defensive rebounding for this article). Does it help to be 7' tall? I haven't looked at the data for the NBA but I'm assuming that height and rebounding skill are closely correlated in the league. That's because 7-footers in the NBA are typically bulkier than college players, and much better athletes. A lot of college 7-footers don't weigh much more than me and when they run they look like a fawn which has just entered the world.

Jimmy Valvano and the V Foundation put a face on cancer for the college basketball world. The V Foundation has donated over 100 million dollars since its founding. In the grant world these donations are often used as seed money. They'll donate for a feasibility study, or to pay for a non-profits staff time to develop larger projects, and so that money has been leveraged to generate over 1 billion dollars in research. The size of these numbers are staggering. Which is a good thing.

The Pat Summit Foundation is trying to do something similar for Alzheimer's research.

While these foundations are impressive, an unintended side effect is that they can often cause the smaller stories to go overlooked.

The amount of community service college athletes put in dwarfs the service put in by the general population. This is one of the great wins for college athletics. Student athletes get to help others, and sometimes all it takes is showing up.

At first glance, using $125 million dollars in public money to finance an arena for a private, catholic university with a crappy basketball program seems as if it might be a poor investment for the citizens of Chicago. But fear not, says the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, who funded a study showing how the urban development would pay dividends for years. DePaul also hired a separate consulting firm, which provided even more dramatic numbers.

DePaul hired AECOM – a global consulting firm – and they found, amongst other findings, that the arena’s naming rights could be leased for $1.23 million dollars a year, and that DePaul would sell 22 luxury suites at $45,000 per year.

But most important is the economic development of the neighborhood. All those fans need places to park, food to eat, places to have drinks. They need hotel rooms and gasoline.

And here is where the luster of some of those numbers begins to wear thin.

Few programs utilize the college transfer process more than Iowa State. The Cyclones graduated five seniors off of this year's team, and four were Division I transfers, and one played his first two years in JUCO. They've been replaced, partially, by a recruiting class that includes Northern Illinois transfer Abdul Nader, and now Marshall transfer DeAndre Kane.

Nader will have to sit out a season, but Kane can play right away. Which is great news for a team that just graduated its starting back court.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has 957 Division I wins, which is the most all time. The next active coach is Jim Boeheim who has 920, and after that it's a long drop to Bob Huggins at 710. Obviously Boeheim is the biggest threat to Coach K's record, but that would require Boeheim to coach longer than K, and then it would still likely take two years. But K is almost two and a half years younger than Boeheim, and has already stated that he'll coach at least through 2016.

Who is the next biggest threat after Boeheim?

I looked at a bunch of younger coaches who have amassed a significant number of wins, and then compared those to where Coach K was at the same age.

Today at ESPN, Myron Medcalf took a look at potential impact sophomores. I'm usually not in to such fuzzy, non-measurable, evaluations, but I'll give Medcalf credit because I was intrigued by his list. To qualify, the players "will be asked to carry more weight next season. Some of these young men might have to carry an entire team." I think that describes pretty much every sophomore in the nation, and the list would have been more meaningful if he had limited it to guys who played a certain percentage of minutes this year, or used X % of the possessions. Still - even though it's limited and fuzzy - it's a good list.

So who did he miss?