1. FSU made 6-13 threes (46.2%), and has now made 44.4% as a team for the season. You have to go back to 2007 to find a Seminole team which finished among the nations top-100 3-point shooting teams. That team finished 52nd and made 38% of their attempts. Michael Snaer has made 9-22 (41%), but that includes an 0-6 start in the first game. In the three games since he's made 56% of his threes.

2. FSU had 21 assists on 30 made baskets (70% assist %). The only time in the previous two years FSU matched that number was in last year's semifinal ACC Tournament win over UNC. But in that game, FSU had more made baskets (33). FSU also only turned the ball over 11 times vs St. Joe's, giving an A/T ratio of 1.91, which is their highest since January 10, 2010.

The Saint Joseph's Hawks entered the season hoping to repeat something which last happened in 1997: win an Atlantic 10 Title. They returned all five starters from a team which went 20-14 (9-7), and all five of those players are now upperclassmen. The lone senior - Carl Jones - is the leading returning scorer, and after sitting out the team's final exhibition and first two real games, he eligible to play tonight against Florida State.

Regardless of how they finish, they're certainly going to be entertaining. The athleticism on their front line is ridiculous. 6-9 CJ Aiken and 6-8 Ronald Roberts are joined by a less athletic, but highly skilled 6-8 Halil Kanacevic.

Here are some Aiken and Roberts dunks from their 79-70 overtime win against Notre Dame.

1. Senior Lamont "Momo" Jones scored 40 points against Quinnipiac, including a game tying three with 4.2 seconds left, but it wasn't enough as Iona lost in overtime 98-92. It wasn't his career high though. Last year he scored 43 in a win over Canisius. Junior Ike Azotam led the way for Quinnipiac with 21 points and 10 rebounds. And he nearly turned it into a triple-double (the bad way) with 9 turnovers.

2. St. Joes's trailed Notre Dame 66-58 with less than four minutes left in the game, but finished by scoring the final eight points of regulation. They then went on to outscore them 13-4 in the overtime, effectively ending the game on a 21-4 run.

Purdue and Villanova played an entertaining game last night in the 2K Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden. They did their part, at least for the first 39 minutes. And that's when the refs took over.

With the ball, and up four, Purdue inbounded to DJ Byrd. It was a bad inbounds plays because it allowed Nova to trap Byrd against the sideline. Here's the video:

On Tuesday UMass used a buzzer beater to knock off Harvard. Tonight the opponent was Providence. In the first half UMass built an early 11 point lead, but Providence - playing with just six scholarship players - used a late run to cut it to six at the half. In the 2nd they slowly took control of the game, eventually leading by five before the Minutemen were able to come back. It came down to the final possession, with the teams tied at 75. Here's what happened:

A great thing about basketball is that you can drop games early and have them be learning experiences. But that doesn't mean that these games don't matter. Because they do. And they will all season. The primary reason is due to the way the selection committee works when they're doling out invites. Games are broken up into several categories of various levels - good wins, bad losses, etc.... And all of it is based on strength of schedule. Of course, the selection committee relies on the RPI rather than much more relevant and meaningful metrics, but that's another story.

The strength of schedule component is driven by two things: your schedule, and how your conference mates fared against their schedule. When teams play more than half their games in-conference, then that's what drives strength of schedule. In other words, root for your conference.

So how are conferences doing? I'm not interested in how the top end of conferences are doing. I'm interested in the whole shebang. Because the conferences that do well in out-of-conference play will be the ones sitting in the pole position come Selection Sunday.

Here's a table of the top eight conferences according to Ken Pomeroy (and by extension, Vegas). The columns are how they've fared against different levels of teams: top 50, top 100, top 200, top 300 and the cupcakes. Division II teams have been removed.

1. Wisconsin grabbed 9 defensive boards. Florida grabbed 9 offensive boards. When a team shoots and misses and it's a coinflip as to who gets the ball, then that's the recipe for a loss. Florida was a hot-shooting team for most of the night, and on the occasions they did miss, they often just got the ball right back.

2. The Badgers made just 7-24 3-point attempts (29.2%). Trying to comeback from a large deficit, threes are often the key. Wisconsin couldn't make theirs. In Wisconsin's past 13 losses, they've shot below 30% from deep 9 times (69%).

Duke was able to outlast Kentucky last night, taking home a 75-68 win behind 23 points from Seth Curry and 18 from Mason Plumlee. And during the game ESPN basketball tweeted something to their 115,000 followers about a pending upset (the tweet has since been removed - but at least many of us were able to respond to it first).

Considering Duke was favored, probably not RT @espncbb Time to put #Kentucky on #UpsetAlert?

— Michael Rogner (@RunTheFloor) November 14, 2012

Since the tweet was almost instantly removed, I assume they saw the error of their ways. I was wrong.

1. FGCU limited Miami to just 16-55 shooting. Miami made 8-29 twos (27.6%) and 8-26 threes (30.8%). Miami also struggled from the line (11-21, 52.4%) though defense can't really get the credit for that one. 16 field goals is the lowest a Miami team has made under coach Jim Larranaga, and the lowest for any Miami team since scoring just 45 points in a Nov. 2010 loss to Rutgers.

2. Eric McKnight is a rare top-100 recruit who is playing in the Atlantic Sun. The transfer from Iowa State began his Eagles career a bit slowly with just 5 points in their opener. But against Miami, when points were hard to come by, McKnight scored 14 points off a very efficient seven shots. He also grabbed eight rebounds, four of them offensive. All of this in just 21 minutes.

Love him or hate him, Coach Calipari is the perfect fit for Kentucky. The program has virtually unlimited resources. Their fan base is huge. They have history. And he's used all of that to make them cool.

He already has more followers on Twitter than all other D1 head coaches combined. He's also over social media, contstantly sending out updates which are, well, cool. It's all charities, hoops, and people young basketball players think of as celebrities.

And he's on - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As soon as the Wildcats won last year's National Title, Cal was already talking about hitting the road to recruit.

Take a look at this video. His team trailed Duke 33-31 at halftime, and he was pulled aside for the halftime interview. Here's what he had to say: