Stellar showing, Knickerbockers.

• Mario Benavides, Travis Kelce and Khaseem Greene all crack Mel Kiper's top-five by position rankings for the draft.

• Scouts Inc.'s Kevin Weidl says that UConn LB Sio Moore is a possible combine star.

• SI.com's Stewart Mandel goes to the numbers to determine how the Big East and MWC actually match up.

• SMU AD Rick Hart explains why the Mustangs dropped Baylor from this upcoming year's schedule, Bill Nichols writes in the Dallas Morning News.

• USF will be paying former coach Skip Holtz as much as his new school, Louisiana Tech, is, Greg Auman writes in the Tampa Bay Times.