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The Bottom 10 Inspirational Thought of the Week:I thought things had changed I thought things looked plain I thought I could see the lightI just could not decide and all my shots went wide Id waited for that light so longBut now, now I know I saw the distant glow I heard a distant whistle blow-- The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train by WhiteyHere at Bottom 10 headquarters, located in the humidor where Rece Davis stores his Andy Griffith Show VHS tapes, weve entered that time of the season where we feel a little bit like Ricky Bobby.We dont know what to do with our hands.As Thanksgiving weekend wraps up and the college football regular season nears its close, we arent unlike the support crew at your local Turkey Day 10K road race. The winners crossed the finish line hours ago. But here we still stand, knowing that while thousands may have headed home long ago, there are 10 participants still out there on the course. Sure, we want to start packing things up, but we also dont want to be disrespectful to the people moving along at a crawl, knees swollen and a little bit of snot dripping from their noses. They run, limp and crawl toward the light they see up ahead, hoping it is the end of the tunnel, but knowing its probably the Number 3 train headed in the opposite direction ... or Alabama.As they finally drag themselves across the finish line, what do we do? Clap? Hug them? Call the paramedics? Dig a discarded participation ribbon out of the trash and pin it to their T-shirt? Or do we just yell, Damn, yall, its about time! Youre holding up shopping traffic!With apologies to John Stephen Akhwari and Steve Harvey, heres this weeks Bottom 10.1. Fres-no State (1-11) As Ive stood at that 2016 finish line, I have not been alone. This season we have picked up multiple Bottom 10 Section 13 field reporters eager to keep us here at Bottom 10 HQ abreast of the situation at our member schools. This weekend we heard from Twitter bud @SJCsouthpaw, who was in the stands for our Pillow Fight of the Week between the States of San Jose and Fresno.Thankfully, those ominous leaning towers were just stadium lights and not War of the Worlds tripods attacking Bulldog Stadium. By the end, Southpaw went total Jim Cantore, braving the elements to bring us this final report.As of Monday afternoon, he hadnt tweeted since. Dang, maybe those were tripods ...2. In a Rut-gers (2-10) Former Big East member Rutgers lost to former ACC member Maryland in the Yes, This Is Actually A Big Ten Conference Game And Not The Belk Bowl Classic.3. Texas State Armadillos (2-9) The hay is in the barn for most of our Bottom 10 teams, but the Arma ... er, Bobcats still have one game remaining. They are riding seven straight losses, including five in which theyve surrendered 40-plus points and three defeats to current or former 2016 Bottom 10 teams. A convincing defeat at home to Arkansas State might be enough to continue their meteoric fall. Do Bobcats eat hay?4. Buffalo Bills, er Bulls (2-10) All three directional Michigan teams are actually pretty good. My Hammy of Ohio is bowl eligible. Bowling Green and Northern Illinois are not. But just when I think the MAC has become a place I no longer recognize, I look at Buffalo, and Im like Linus with his blanket.5. The SEC Least I once attended a rather redneck party where the main activity was to get everyone drunk, grease up a pig and then have us all chase the poor porker through a mud bog until someone finally caught him. The dude who won was named Earl. Ill never forget him standing there smiling with a front tooth chipped during the hog chase and his Diamond Rio T-shirt torn and soaked in what I hope was mud. Congratulations, Florida. Youre Earl.6. UMess (2-10) At the start of the season, I started a countdown in this space that would take us to what I believed at the time might be the Pillow Fight of the Millennium: the Minutemens visit to Hawaii. Then Hawaii went and won six games and fouled that up. UMass, however, has held up its end of the deal.7. Kansas Nayhawks (2-10) The Nayhawks lost (won?) the 2015 Bottom 10 championship in a tiebreaker. This year they werent able to make another run (fall?) at the title. Why? According to Chapter 13: Article X: Order 66 of the Bottom 10 rulebook, you only receive Fired Coach Bonus Points for getting your own coach fired, not getting Texas coach fired.8. UV-ugh (2-10)Remember my story about chasing the greased pig? Well, an hour after we were done, we realized there was a guy that who had been mashed into the mud during the scramble and was so covered up we hadnt noticed him. It took two chains hooked up to my pickup truck to get him out. His name was Lonnie. If the winner of the SEC East is Earl then the last-place finisher in the ACC Coastal is Lonnie.9. EC-Yew (3-9) As I was writing this, I was thinking that former ECU head coach Ruffin McNeill, whose firing is still wildly unpopular in Pirate Nation, is sitting somewhere and laughing like Jack Sparrow. Then I realized hes at Virginia.10. Ill-inois (3-9)I keep hearing from Big Ten fans bragging about the possibility of having two teams in the College Football Playoff. Oddly, they arent bragging about the possibility of having three teams in the Bottom 10. The Illinis 34-31 loss to Purdue on Oct. 8 is our version of Ohio State losing to Penn State.Waiting list: Pur-dont (3-9), Ucant (3-9), Rice (3-9), FA(not I)U (3-9), Marshall Blundering Herd (3-9), State of Kent (3-9), blaming the officials for ruining your Thanksgiving. DeSean Jackson Womens Jersey . Dukurs winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russias Alexander Tretiakov. 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JJ Arcega-Whiteside Womens Jersey .Y. -- Sabres defenceman Tyler Myers had no intention of changing his hard-hitting style before taking part in a disciplinary hearing for his illegal check to New Jersey forward Dainius Zubrus head. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The college basketball season is officially here.From North Carolinas Late Night With Roy event to Kentuckys Big Blue Madness that drew a packed crowd to Rupp Arena, Friday night featured a busy schedule of Midnight Madness-style events around the country that stand as the ceremonial kickoff to the 2016-17 season.Similar events took place at Michigan State, Arizona, Maryland, Iowa State and Connecticut among other schools.Coming off a loss in the NCAA championship game on a last-second 3-pointer to Villanova, the Tar Heels held their Late Night event featuring the mens and womens basketball teams in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 fans at the Smith Center. Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams drew a standing ovation as he walked onto the court ahead of player introductions for a veteran squad, while the players quickly commenced with a series of skills contests and dancing for fans before capping the night with an intrasquad scrimmage.I think weve had a pretty good structure out there: guys knew where to go, Tar Heels junior Theo Pinson said. It was good playing in front of a crowd, to get used to it for the freshmen and us getting the feel of it again. It was fun.In Lexington, Kentucky, the Wildcats stepped out on the blue carpet to offer the first look at John Caliparis latest heralded freshman class. The school also unveiled a new scoreboard above center court and a newly designed playing court, part of renovations at Rupp Arena for its 40th anniversary.Actors Steve Zahn and Josh Hopkins, along with former Kentucky standouts and NBA first-round draft picks John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins were also in attendance. Renowned boxing announcer Michael Buffer introduced the players with some of the newcomers displaying dance moves to the delight of those in attendance.Wow, Calipari said. You people are crazy. Look at this place. Only you, only here.The Midnight Madness tradition was based on teams holding open practices at the earliest opportunity on the first day the NCAA permitted teams to open practice. Rule changes in 2013 gaave teams more flexibility on when they would start their practices, which also scattered the Midnight Madness type events -- many now being held in more family-friendly evening hours -- across the calendar.ddddddddddddansas was the first of the marquee programs to hold its event on Oct. 1, while others -- including Duke, Syracuse, Indiana and Virginia -- are scheduled to hold public scrimmages or similar events next weekend.---Heres a look at some of the Midnight Madness events Friday night:UNC: Senior Isaiah Hicks scored 13 points according to unofficial statistics to lead Blue past White 40-37, though the Tar Heels needed a 1-minute overtime after the 20-minute scrimmage to decide it.KENTUCKY: Buffer played off his trademark phrase by announcing Lets get ready for roundball! ahead the Wildcats 10-minute scrimmage matching the newcomers against the veterans. Bam Adebayo had 14 points on seven dunks to help the freshmen win 25-21.UCONN: The Huskies drew about 8,000 fans to Gampel Pavilion in Storrs to catch First Night with the mens and national championship womens teams, which evenly divided both teams players for the 20-minute scrimmage featuring alternating 5-minute segments for mens and womens play.ARIZONA: Five-star freshman guard Rawle Alkins had quite a moment en route to winning the teams dunk contest, plucking the ball from coach Sean Miller as he leaped over his back and then threw it down in one motion.IOWA STATE: Senior Deonte Burton won the teams dunk contest, junior college transfer Donovan Jackson won the 3-point contest, and the mens and womens squads played a 16-minute co-ed scrimmage in Hilton Madness.---This story has been corrected to show Buffer said `roundball, not `rumble.---Freelance writer Keith Taylor in Lexington, Kentucky, contributed to this report.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap and the APs college basketball site at http://collegebasketball.ap.org ' ' '