BUZZER BEATER: Duke Mondy Nails Game Winner 3 Point Shot For Oakland

Down by two Oakland's Duke Mondy to the game in his hands and hit a 3 pointer at the buzzer to give the Golden Grizzlies a 76-75 win over Illinois-Chicago.

Thanks Oakland Athletics:


For Mondy that game winning shot was just a part of the game.

“It was just a regular shot,”Mondy said. “I’d like to think I have ice in my veins, I wasn’t really nervous.”

Mondy would finish with 11 points and six steals.

Oakland was led by Kahlil Felder with 21 points and nine assists.

Butler to the Atlantic 10: Effective this year

If you are a fan of the Butler Bulldogs, you are going to have to learn your new conference a little faster than you thought.

Butler announced this afternoon (Tuesday) they've reached an agreement with their now former conference...the Horizon...to speed up the move to the Atlantic 10 by a year.

In other words, they start A-10 play...this season (2012).

Read the school's press release RIGHT HERE

Good for the Bulldogs.

And the Atlantic 10, which along with the addition of Virginia Commonwealth, becomes what will be considered the premier "Mid-Major" conference in college hoops.

Quite honestly, we don't know why a conference (Big East) would make someone who has agreed to leave, play a lame-duck season or 3 before they are allowed to go. It doesn't do anything to foster relationships among the member schools and basically just makes group meetings really, really awkward.