Making jokes about Kevin Ware's gruesome leg injury last Sunday still falls under the "too soon" category. But writing Kevin Ware jokes for the Louisville forward to read on television? Well, his participation in the gallows humor makes it OK and it's exactly what David Letterman and his staff did for Thursday night's edition of the "Late Show" on CBS.

So how did Ware do in reading off the "top 10 things going through Kevin Ware's mind when he broke his leg?." Well, he still seems a bit shellshocked over all the attention his broken leg is garnering and his appearance via remote produced its usual bit of awkward delay moments with Dave. (That's something most of Dave's out-of-studio guests run into.)

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But all in all, we think we did pretty well for a guy whose name was unknown to 99.9 percent of Americans one week ago. Maybe laughter really can be the best medicine.

Here's the transcribed top 10, complete with a few good lines and the prerequisite stinkers.

(AP)As we head into Final Four weekend, four possibilities remain for Monday's title game.

Of those, Louisville-Michigan is the matchup that was most often selected on Yahoo! Sports' Fantasy Tourney Pick'em. A lot of people also picked Louisville-Syracuse, which makes sense, given that the Cardinals entered the bracket as the top overall seed.

As for brackets that predicted No. 9-seed Wichita State to be playing in the tourney's final game? Well, there's not that many. In fact, there are less than 100 combined entries that predicted Wichita State would be playing either Michigan or Syracuse.

Here's the breakdown of all four possible Monday matchups:

1. Louisville-Michigan: 40,718 brackets (1.3 percent of 3 million+ entries)
2. Louisville-Syracuse: 31,046 brackets (1.0)
3. Wichita State-Michigan: 51 brackets (0.0016)
4. Wichita State-Syracuse: 39 brackets (0.0013)

Did you pick any of these matchups before the tourney started three weeks ago?

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Doug Anderson's mesmerizing final jam wasn't merely the highlight of Thursday night's college slam dunk contest.

The high-flying University of Detroit guard probably eclipsed any of the dunks in the lackluster NBA contest a couple months ago too.

Having already thrown down a reverse slam, a windmill and a between-the-legs dunk in the earlier rounds, Anderson saved his most jaw-dropping material for his final attempt. He hit a between-the-legs 360 slam on his first try, easily outclassing the rest of his competition and immediately setting social media abuzz.

Anderson was probably an unknown to most viewers, but the Detroit senior's above-the-rim finishes have been a staple of Horizon League games for years. This follow dunk from back in November was vicious. So were a couple of his slams against Syracuse in mid-December. And more recently, he almost tore the rim right off the glass in a victory over Cleveland State in February.

Anderson donned a championship belt after Thursday's contest, a deserving honor for college basketball's king of dunkers.

He might not have enough of an all-around game to make an NBA roster, but some team should sign him for a 10-day contract in mid-February. He'd be a tremendous addition to any NBA roster for all-star weekend.

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If Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott initially believed the Ed Rush controversy wouldn't have a long shelf life, the sustained outcry of the past few days have proven that was a miscalculation.

As a result, the saga reached is inevitable outcome Thursday night when the Pac-12 and its coordinator of officiating parted ways.

“My first and highest concerns have always been the integrity of the game of basketball and the honor of the craft of officiating," Rush said in a statement announcing his resignation. "While I am proud of what we have accomplished, my decision to resign reflects my strong desire to see the Pac-12 officiating program continue to grow and thrive."

The resignation of Rush comes three days after a CBSSports.com report revealed he told a group of referees during the Pac-12 tournament they would be rewarded with $5,000 or a trip to Cancun if they ejected Arizona coach Sean Miller or assessed him a technical foul. Scott initially backed Rush and insisted the comments were an inappropriate joke that none of the referees took seriously, but the fan and media response of the past few days has shown why it doesn't matter if what was said was in jest or not.

As I wrote Monday night, all that matters is Rush's comments create the perception that a particular coach or school is being treated differently than anyone else. In a post-Tim Donaghy world, referees cannot even joke about giving preferential treatment to one side or the other because the credibility of the game instantly comes into question.

Fans are already passionate enough to allege bias against their teams when a call doesn't go their way. Had Rush kept his job, Arizona fans would have screamed that their team was being cheated every time a call went in favor of their opponents and opposing fans would have accused the league of over-correcting every time the Wildcats got a call.

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New Mexico made a big splash and national news six years ago when it hired former Indiana star Steve Alford from Iowa. They didn't know it at the time, but they also hired Alford's successor with the move.

When Alford left the Lobos a week ago to take over at UCLA, school leaders decided keeping much of what Alford built at The Pit intact was best for the program this time around instead of trying to lure another rising star to Albuquerque.

They hired Craig Neal, Alford's associate head coach for the past six seasons, to try to build on the most successful era in the program's history. Neal, who earned the nickname 'Noodles' during his high school career in Indiana because of his skinny frame, had spent the previous nine years working for Alford at Iowa and New Mexico. He has been a part of 155 wins and a handful of Mountain West Conference championships at New Mexico.