If there's any college basketball coach I'd have guessed would be standing stationary in the midst of a student flash mob, Nebraska coach Tim Miles would have been very near the top of my list. Miles has a fun-loving personality, a great sense of humor and an eye for marketing. He tweets at halftime of almost every game. He scrubbed body paint off a fan in one commercial back at Colorado State and appeared as a Twitter superhero in another. Miles' personality alone won't win over Nebraska fans -- it will take wins too -- but in year one of a rebuilding process, fun stuff like his flash mob appearance doesn't hurt.

Michael Snaer's game-winning 3-pointer at Duke last year is still the biggest of his game winners (Getty Images)

Twenty seconds remained in a tie game between Florida State and Georgia Tech last Tuesday night when Seminoles guard Michael Snaer overheard two of his teammates say something that made him chuckle.

Michael Snaer sinks a game-winning layup at Georgia Tech last week (AP)"A couple guys said in the huddle, 'Oh, we're going to win this game. Mike's got it," Snaer said. "It was funny to me to hear them say that, but it's a good feeling knowing that your teammates, your coaches and the fans at home are thinking in their heads, 'We got this because we've got Mike.'"

College basketball's king of clutch validated his team's faith in him that night, attacking the rim off the dribble and scoring a game-winning layup just before time expired. The basket was Snaer's third buzzer beater in the previous two weeks and his fifth since January 2012, all in the final 2.6 seconds of a game and all securing victories for Florida State.

[Also: Cal stuns Arizona, throws Pac-12 race into chaos]

Having a reputation for sinking game-clinching shots is still surreal to Snaer because the 6-foot-5 senior still agonizes over his misses far more than he cherishes his makes.

Midway through ACC play Snaer's debut season in Tallahassee, referees called him for charging and nullified a basket that would have tied a game against Maryland in the final 15 seconds. Weeks later, the highly touted freshman missed a jump shot that could have wrapped up a victory over Miami.

"You don't get over those," Snaer said. "I'm going to always remember. Those are the moments that have helped me mature to this point to where I can actually hit game winners. I think it takes failure first."

Allen Crabbe led Cal to a surprising victory in Tucson on Sunday (Getty Images)

1. Arizona's loss to California on Sunday not only knocked the Wildcats out of the 'Who's No. 1?' debate but also tightened the Pac-12 standings considerably. Would you believe that Arizona, UCLA and Oregon are all tied for the conference lead and that seven Pac-12 teams are within two games of first place? The Ducks still have the advantage of being done with the Bruins and Wildcats, but they need Dominic Artis back to have realistic hope of a Pac-12 title.

2. Former Duke point guard Jay Williams was seemingly on his way to a promising NBA career before a motorcycle crash ended his career prematurely. Greg Bishop of the New York Times shares the inspiring tale of how the ex-Chicago Bulls draft pick rebounded from that crushing disappointment and carved out a new career as an excellent analyst for ESPN.

3. One of the obvious questions that emerged when Larry Brown accepted SMU's head coaching job last spring was why would a hall of fame NBA coach want to spearhead the rebuilding process at seldom-relevant program. This excellent Grantland piece seeks the answer that question and produced a nuanced theory as to why Brown continually jumps from one job to the next every few years.

4. The game of the weekend – and heck, maybe the regular season – was Notre Dame's thrilling five overtime victory over Louisville on Saturday night. Here are my two favorite deadline pieces to emerge from that game, one a well-written game story from the Chicago Tribune's Brian Hamilton and the other a column from ESPN.com's Eamonn Brennan that puts the game into context while also making you feel like you were there.

5. Team I wouldn't want to draw if I were a top four seed in the NCAA tournament: Montana, one of the nation's most dangerous mid-majors from the perimeter. Since getting star guard Will Cherry back in time for the start of league play, the Griz have been on a tear, winning their first four Big Sky games. That gives them a Big Sky record 25-game win streak in league play when including the 11 in a row Montana won at the end of last season.

Bob Knight and other members of Ohio State's 1960 national title team were honored in 2011 (AP)

Just before tipoff of Sunday's Big Ten clash between Ohio State and Indiana, the Buckeyes took a memorable jab at the visiting Hoosiers.

The video board at Value City Arena played a taped message from Bob Knight, the onetime Ohio State player who became the face of Indiana basketball while leading the Hoosiers to three national championships from 1971 to 2000. Said Knight to the delight of the Buckeyes crowd, "I used to coach a little bit, and there's nothing better than Ohio State basketball."

According to Indianapolis Star columnist Bob Kravitz, the quote from Knight was from a speech the former Indiana coach made years ago at halftime of an Ohio State game. In that case, give the Buckeyes credit for finding a clever time to use it to pump up its crowd and rub salt in old wounds that have yet to heal at Indiana.

Knight has severed all ties with Indiana since former school president Myles Brand controversially fired him 13 years ago. The final straws were a series of incidents that included an Indiana freshman accusing the coach of grabbing him by the arm and ex-player Neil Reed alleging Knight choked him during practice.

Indiana officials have since made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to mend fences with the man who brought the Hoosiers 11 Big Ten titles and won a school-record 661 games.

In 2009, Indiana inducted Knight into its athletic hall of fame but he declined to attend despite multiple written invitations from athletic director Fred Glass. Indiana coach Tom Crean has also reached out to Knight to no avail, even hiring former player Calbert Cheaney onto his staff.

If Knight's comments on the video board stung Indiana fans, they can take solace in this: For at least one day he was wrong. The Hoosiers were better than Ohio State on Sunday, riding 26 points from Victor Oladipo and 24 from Cody Zeller to an impressive 81-68 road win.

James Southerland will be in uniform for Syracuse today against St. John's (Getty Images)

A two-day wait for the results of James Southerland's appeal has apparently ended with the news Syracuse fans have been craving.

The senior forward has reportedly been reinstated.

Southerland, Syracuse's premier outside shooter, will be a welcome addition for Syracuse when it hosts St. John's on Sunday afternoon. The 6-foot-8 senior had missed the team's previous six games as a result of being declared ineligible on Jan. 12 due to an undisclosed academic issue.

Southerland was Syracuse’s second-leading scorer during the first half of the season, averaging 13.6 points and 5.2 rebounds and hitting 37.5 percent of his attempts from behind the arc. Without him in the lineup, the Orange still went 4-2 but they were just 29 of 90 from 3-point range during those six games

The return of Southerland will boost a frontcourt that had been shorthanded without him and center Dajuan Coleman, who underwent a surgical procedure on his left knee that will sideline him until the end of the month. Freshman Jerami Grant performed well with increased playing time, so Syracuse now should only have more depth once it returns to full strength.

St. Bonaventure players gather in a hotel room after the power went out Friday night (via @BonniesMBB)

The full brunt of this week's powerful winter storm had just begun to batter the state of Rhode Island at 10 p.m. Friday night when the lights at the Newport Marriott flickered a few times and went black.

The view out the window of St. Bonaventure's hotel Saturday morning (via @BonniesMBB)Ever the optimist, St. Bonaventure coach Mark Schmidt immediately found a silver lining to losing power at the team hotel the night before the Bonnies faced Rhode Island.

"I got to go to bed to earlier," Schmidt quipped. "I didn't have to watch anymore tape."

What was a slight nuisance Friday night became a greater hassle by the time Schmidt and his players awoke Saturday morning because the hotel's backup generator had also failed. All other guests at the hotel had to be evacuated because it had no power, lights, heat, hot water and hot food, not exactly ideal conditions for the Bonnies to prepare for a road game.

Showers had to be brief because the water was frigid. The team's pregame meal consisted of cold cuts and bread. And after digging the team bus out of the snow for two hours to go to shootaround at a nearby prep school, St. Bonaventure discovered that the generator there was also broken, forcing the staff to hold an afternoon walkthrough in an ice-cold ballroom at the team hotel instead.

"You try to make the best of a bad situation," Schmidt said. "It wasn't ideal, but there are people out there who are starving. That's how you have to look at it."

Garrick Sherman contests a shot by Luke Hancock in the fifth overtime (USA Today Sports Images)Had Notre Dame not managed to force overtime against Louisville with an unfathomable last-minute comeback, Garrick Sherman's line in Saturday night's box score would have merely read DNP-Coach's Decision.

Instead the seldom-used big man became the most unlikely hero of the longest game in Notre Dame history and one of the most unforgettable games of this college basketball season.

Despite not shedding his warmups once during regulation, Sherman entered the game at the start of the first overtime after top big men Jack Cooley and Tom Knight fouled out at the end of the second half. Sherman played so well, he hardly left the court thereafter, scoring 17 points and grabbing six rebounds to propel the Irish to a 104-101 victory in five overtimes.

"I had to deliver. There wasn't any choice," Sherman told ESPN's Samantha Ponder after the game. "I'd been sitting a little bit, but I got out on the floor and I tried to step up for my team."

[Related: Grant's regulation heroics lead to OT classic]

Few would have believed Sherman would play such a pivotal role in an upset considering the limited minutes the Michigan State transfer had received recently.

Once Notre Dame's top interior reserve during November and December, Sherman lost his spot in the rotation to Knight after an 0-for-4 performance from the field in a Jan. 15 loss to St. John's. In four of the Irish's six games since then, Sherman never even got off the bench, surely a disappointment for a kid who left Michigan State after his sophomore year in 2011 in part because of inconsistent playing time.

The biggest surprise from the video of Wisconsin's locker room celebration after its victory over Michigan today is what song was playing in the background. If you had Ke$ha's "Die Young" as the Badgers' celebration soundtrack, you're a winner. Choosing that as a victory song certainly won't boost Wisconsin's street cred, but the Badgers fans will surely forgive them for their musical taste after the way they performed against the Wolverines. My only quibble is that Wisconsin didn't break out some Soulja Boy. Then maybe we could have gotten a repeat of this Bo Ryan dance.