The holidays are over, which means that basketball is slowly ramping back up. Tonight features #1 North Carolina hosting Nevada (6 PM CST, ESPN2) and NC State heading to Seton Hall (6:30 PM, ESPNU). Most Texas fans will probably be busy watching Duane Akina’s porous defense getting lit up by Arizona State, but we’ve got to cover all the bases for those non-Horn fans who read the site.

Eddie Sutton is back? Unfortunately, he didn’t end up at Colorado, where we could’ve sworn we saw him watching the CU/Texas game last January. Instead, he’s going to step in for the San Francisco Dons and try to get that 800th win. He’ll likely get two more in his last 17 games, but I kind of hope he doesn’t. He left his Oklahoma State program reeling and is now returning to the game for a very self-serving reason. That doesn’t seem like the coach I had come to begrudgingly respect over his years with the Pokes.

Checking in with the polls this week, Texas is sitting at 9th in both the AP and Coaches. The sportswriters around the country are all over the map, with Luke Winn leaving the Horns in 5th and ESPN writers putting Texas ninth. Jay Bilas still had the Horns in 5th and “Bracketologist” Joe Lunardi slotted them 7th, but the rest of the writers were pretty much split between 9th and 11th for Rick Barnes’ club.

Bob Knight’s in trouble again with the Big 12 after questioning a call in the Tech loss to New Mexico. I’m not sure what purpose these “reprimands” really serve, but you can be sure it’s no skin off of ol’ Bob’s back. It’s incredibly stupid that such a minor comment is worth this much attention. After all, it’s not like Knight was saying the refs cost his team the game — they lost by 17 — but rather was responding to a simple question posed by a reporter.