JOE CRAWFORD

In case you're checking scores on your Mobile, no, a belligerent NBA referee is not Kentucky's leading scorer in the Wildcats' game with Marquette. Yes, it's Joe Crawford, but it't not that Joe Crawford.

Crawford is outscoring his own team, 19-17, as Ky. trails by one in the second half.

Meanwhile, UNLV, a 2-point underdog, is up by 21 points at halftime. Let's see, the Vegas oddsmakers are spot-on with almost every game (Kansas, a 23-point favorite, for example, won by 24; Georgia, a 9-point 'dog, lost by 12), but with the team that lives just down the block, they're that far off??? Something smells fishy.

(Update: But of course. They don't take action on UNLV games in Las Vegas, so there's less interest in setting a spread. And thus the blackjack dealers, etc., wouldn't be able to place bets on those games. Thanks, Barry.)

Marquette is on a 10-2 run, and if the Golden Eagles should win today they'll have tied the number of wins that favorite son Dwyane Wade and his Miami Heat have in the entire month of March.