11:01 AM: Siena 55, Northeastern 48

Realizing now that I still haven't eaten a meal since the tip-off marathon began, and also realizing that I'm out of milk. Looks like it's time for a breakfast of graham cracker, peanut butter, and Nutella sandwiches. And a sugar-free Red Bull. Breakfast ... of ... champions.

Rossiter turns the ball over on the break, and Rafferty raves, "What a tough play!" I think Rossiter could run by the scorers table, punch both announcers in the face, and they still wouldn't say anything bad about him.

From an earlier Gmail conversation: Why couldn't ESPN have had Dick Vitale announce the 6 AM game? I mean, if anything could have kept people awake ...

Tangent #3: Searching for the next Stephen Curry:

Listen, Edwin Ubiles ... it's not you, it's me. It's just ... you can't talk yourself into falling in love.

Now that Curry is looking increasingly miserable as a Golden State Warrior, I need to find another college guard to fall in love with, and I saw this Tip-Off Marathon as a kind of speed dating in that regard. Well, we're seven games into it, and Ubiles is the only player who has caught my eye in any way.

Still, something isn't quite right, and I think the problem is that Ubiles may be too good of an athlete to take Curry's place. I want a guy who appears to beat the other team solely on swagger.

Here's a short list of guards I've previously been obsessed with:

Stephen Curry
Eric Maynor
Acie Law IV
Miles Simon
Randolph Childress

It all started with Randolph Childress, who played with Tim Duncan at Wake Forest and was, by any rationale, the better college player of the two. He was ACC MALE ATHLETE of the year in 1995. And yet, he averaged 2.4 PPG in two NBA seasons, and has since played in Turkey, Australia, and Italy.

Miles Simon (who, it turns out, is Swedish) was a First Team All American (over Vince Carter and Rip Hamilton) and led Arizona to the National Championship, yet he only played briefly in the NBA, and his Wikipedia page mostly talks about the season he was named CBA MVP. I think he's best known now for playing intramural basketball against Nate.

Acie Law has already been traded twice, and most people are calling him a bust already.

I don't get it. After years of drafting high-schoolers and foreigners, NBA executives are now more and more willing to draft players based on college success, even if they don't always project to greatness. And this, for the most part, has worked out. Every year, this is a running theme in Bill Simmons NBA Draft Diary, and almost every year, it makes him look smart. College success, for the most part, is predictive of NBA success.

Except for the guards I fall in love with.

Why?

So, Edwin Ubiles, it's probably a good sign that I'm not immediately infatuated with you. Enjoy your long and productive NBA career.