The NBA released a list of 80 underclassmen who have declared for this year's draft on Thursday, and as happens every year, there were a handful of names that hadn't been previously reported. Here's a quick update on four of those players, all of whom have until May 8 to pull out of the draft:

Tracy Smith, 6-8, PF, Jr., NC State

It had to be a shock to Wolfpack fans to see their leading scorer and rebounder on the list, but Smith will almost certainly return to play alongside the school's talented freshman class. A school spokesman said Smith declared to give himself the option of getting feedback from NBA teams, but he hasn't signed with an agent and his class schedule may not allow him to even participate in any workouts. Smith later updated his facebook wall with this message: "Dear people, I am 100% coming back to play my senior with Lorenzo Brown. Ryan Harrow, and Cj Leslie at NC STATE..."

Carlon Brown, 6-5, G, Jr., Utah

Although Brown did send in his paperwork to declare for the

Mark Emmert still hasn't revealed whether he's a proponent of expanding the men's basketball tournament or not, but the newly hired NCAA president did offer a strong stance on one hoops-related issue on Wednesday.

He'd like to be done with the one-and-dones.

"I think it creates difficult problems inside universities when we're trying to promote an emphasis on (players being) students as well as athletes," the former University of Washington president told USA Today. "It certainly creates a challenge for individual programs."

The one-and-done phenomenon began in 2005 when the NBA added a clause to the league's collective bargaining agreement requiring players to be at least a year out of high school before entering the league. The rule change has provided college basketball an influx of talented freshmen who might previously have turned pro out of high school, but it also has raised questions about whether education has become a necessary evil for those players.

Emmert said he plans to

Whether it's appearing on magazine covers in a personalized jersey, jet-setting around the country to see games or preparing a home-made meal for the team at her house, Ashley Judd has earned the right to call herself Kentucky basketball's No. 1 fan.

If she's not careful, however, a fellow celebrity is going to wrest that title from her.

Up-and-coming rapper Drake was a regular at Kentucky games in John Calipari's first season, flying in from Toronto to sit behind the bench during the NCAA tournament and even coaching one of the intrasquad teams at Big Blue Madness. On Tuesday night, he again expressed his support for the program, inviting Calipari and the entire Wildcats team on stage with him during his concert in Lexington.

"They gave me a chance to actually come in and talk to them early in the season," Drake told CoachCal.com after a Kentucky win last month. "Just them listening to me, I think we all connected. They're all my boys. This is my family."

It's unclear how Drake's

Instead of forging ahead with preparation for the NBA draft as he planned, Seton Hall forward Herb Pope will wake up Thursday morning in a hospital bed.

Multiple sources told the Newark Star-Ledger that Pope was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital on Wednesday afternoon after he collapsed during a routine on-campus workout. A Gannett New Jersey report said the situation involves Pope's heart and it's "serious," but the redshirt sophomore will undergo further tests in hopes of determining what happened.

You obviously wouldn't wish a medical scare like this on anybody, but it seems especially cruel for it to happen to Pope. The Aliquippa native already defied the odds three years ago to survive five gun shots sustained in a late-night altercation after a party in his gang-ravaged hometown.

Pope recovered and pushed forward with basketball, playing a year at New Mexico State before transferring to Seton Hall. The 6-foot-8 bruiser averaged 11.5 points and 10.7 rebounds per game last season,

NC State athletic director Lee Fowler made an unpopular decision two months ago, giving embattled coach Sidney Lowe a vote of confidence for next season in order to preserve next year's formidable recruiting class.

Today that decision is paying off.

Raleigh native C.J. Leslie, Rivals.com's No. 14 recruit in the class of 2010, committed to NC State on Wednesday, the maraschino cherry on top of a class that is expected to elevate the Wolfpack from the depths of the ACC to the upper tier. Leslie also considered Kentucky and UConn among others.

That Leslie is joining guards Ryan Harrow and Lorenzo Brown at NC State gives the Wolfpack three top-40 players in next year's class to bolster a team that also returns leading scorer and rebounder center Tracy Smith. NC State went 5-11 in ACC play last year and is just 20-44 in Lowe's disappointing four-year tenure, but the Wolfpack are now in prime position for a quick turnaround.

Elsewhere, the aftershocks of Leslie's mildly surprising decision

Based on a scene from Tuesday night's episode of the Fox series "Glee," it's probably safe to assume one of the writers is a Tar Heels fan.

When Mike O'Malley's character Burt Hummel begins dating the mother of the school jock Finn, the boy flips out at the idea of someone trying to take the place of his deceased father. Burt eventually gets Finn to warm up to him, sitting down to watch a basketball game with him and punctuating the bonding experience with the line "I hate Duke like I hate the Nazis."

As ESPN college football analyst Lou Holtz can attest, it's seldom in good taste to compare something as trivial as sports to Hitler's regime. Still, the intent here was to amuse, not to offend, and surely the Duke-hating segment of our population got a pretty good chuckle out of that scene.

Reaction to the scene on the Web on Wednesday predictably has been split largely by school affiliation thus far.

An angry Duke fan commented on Fox's Web site that the Nazi reference was "not

Whatever the label "interim coach" typically means, Binghamton University has just redefined it.

The school has agreed to a two-year contract extension with coach Mark Macon, but it isn't ready to remove his interim tag just yet. Macon took over coaching duties on an interim basis in October after head coach Kevin Broadus was placed on leave in the wake of an NCAA recruiting violation and State University of New York's investigation into the men's basketball program.

"I'm happy and sad -- glad I can be here for the kids and sad about what else is going on," Macon told The Press & Sun-Bulletin. "This doesn't change how I feel about Broadus, I would love to have him back.

"I was surprised that (the extension) was two years. I wasn't looking at anything. I was just hoping that they brought Broadus back and things would get settled."

Macon's situation is especially unusual because there probably haven't been too many interim coaches signed to multi-year deals. Even Arizona, which

He hasn't taken Drexel to the NCAA tournament during his nine years at the school, but Dragons coach Bruiser Flint has nonetheless proved he's America's best in at least one important category.

For the third time in 10 years, Flint has been voted college basketball's best-dressed coach.

The well-coiffed Flint became the first three-time winner in the history of CollegeInsider.com's annual contest this week, edging out fellow Fashionable 4 qualifiers Tom Asbury of Pepperdine, Robbie Laing of Campbell and Buzz Peterson of UNC Wilmington. Flint was the No. 2 seed in his region, but he received a favorable draw because top-seeded Frank Martin and his trademark angry black pinstripe suit were ripe for an early upset.

The obvious question that any college hoops fan should have asked by now is what happened to Jay Wright and Rick Pitino? The Villanova coach's love of Gucci suits and Italian dress shoes should make him the John Wooden-era UCLA of this bracket each year, but the two-time champ