Except they can't talk about it because the thread on the Baylor fan forum discussing the incident—the one that featured pictures of a Coors-filching lass caught in the act, generated eight pages of comments, tens of thousands of hits, and links from Big 12 fans everywhere—has mysteriously disappeared. Just like the beer!

WHAT IS BAYLORFANS.COM HIDING? Why are they protecting this (alleged!) bootlegger? The original thread claimed this still unidentified girl was caught not once, but twice, lifting cold ones from a cooler that did not belong to her. It somehow involves rival tailgate factions and the bad mustaches of the Sig Eps fraternity. Facebook searches have been launched, beer reparations demanded. What would her parents think? What would God think?

(If the allegations are true, she has violated the Christian ethics code of Baylor University! I'm not sure where underage drinking and online shaming fall in that code.)

I think this follow up thread puts things in perspective for us all.

Subject: 30,000 VIEWS?!! Are you kidding me?!
That is awesome. Has to be the greatest thread ever on internet sports message boards. Probably more views that Erin Andrews nude.

Yes. Probably.

Thieves at tailgate - practice fields [BaylorFans.com via Google Cache]
Baylor U. Tailgate Beer Thief Caught In The Act [Brooks]
30,000 VIEWS?!! Are you kidding me?! [Baylor Fans.com]

PURDUE BOILERMAKERS

1. The Baby Boilers Grew Up Before Our Eyes. At the beginning of the season we were positive we were watching an NIT Purdue team .. .or maybe a 12-seed, 19-win Purdue team. As the preconference season began, we looked genius as the Boilers struggled versus the "always tough" Lipscomb. Then the wheels looked like they were coming off as the Baby Boilers lost to Missouri (on the road), Iowa State (neutral site) and finally, Wofford at Mackey Arena. That painful night stuck out for Purdue fans, but also stuck in the minds of voters as the season progressed. This youthful Purdue team lost to Michigan State in East Lansing, but then went on an 11-game tear with two wins over the now Big Ten Champ Wisconsin Badgers, as well as a nationally-televised win over Sparty. The road win v. Wisconsin and home win v. MSU marked the first time Purdue had ever beaten two top-10 teams in a week in the history of the program. This team that at one point was the only in the nation that had four starting freshman grew up quickly. In fact, it could be said that these babies "became men" right before our eyes ... their voices got deeper and fur even began to grow where there was none before .. .nevermind. Point is this group of players, comprised mostly of freshman and sophomores achieved the highest national ranking in the past ten years getting up to 15th. Frosh Robbie Hummel played biggest on the biggest stages as he thrived versus Wisky, MSU & IU. He averaged in the high-teens along with nearly ten rebounds in those contest and he wasn't afraid of taking the important shot. Also, E'Twaun Moore, the jewel of this highly-touted class, came out of his shell at around the midpoint of the Big Ten season; he ended being the leading scorer for the team. Chris Kramer had the unenviable task of guarding Eric Gordon, Drew Neitzel, Jamar Butler and others, but shut down many of these scorers for ten to twenty minutes at a time, fighting knee and wrist injuries all along. Matt Painter showed that he's one of the best coaches in a coaching-rich conference by blending the right line-ups at the right times and game-planning to overcome Purdue's experience discrepancy as the season progressed. So what's the prognosis? Well, this is a darned good Purdue team, much better than we thought they'd be. While statistically they aren't the best-shooting team, they have been extremely smart with the ball and don't turn it over much. And they play hard-nosed, high-energy defense for 40 minutes each game, plus they shoot free throws well. It's said that guard play is important in the NCAA tournament - if this is the case, Purdue could get as deep as the round of eight...but what they have in guards, they simply do not have underneath. Purdue's bigs will struggle against a team with an experienced, skilled PF/C...But this team has the potential to make a lot of noise, if they play the right team.

2. No Fun Allowed At Purdue! The student ticket situation changed recently, and if you were a member of the "Paint Crew" your seating was on a first-come, first-served basis. If you were there early enough, you could be down low in the Paint Crew section. So students started showing actual school spirit and began camping out in tents outside Mackey Arena for hours before games ... then for days... then for MANY days. Everybody loved it. The John Purdue Club (rich alumni) sent them hot chocolate, Coach Painter bought them doughnuts and chicken wings, students traded off "holding" their spots in line so they could go to class, ESPN showed it when they were in town to do games. It was all good fun — until the University decided this was simply too much fun and halted it entirely. First the inflatable penis appearances are dramatically reduced - now this. What's next? Will Purdue Pete's hammer be deemed too barbaric or something?

3. Nicknames We Want To Hear Brent Musburger Say. Musburger, Steve Lavin and sultry Erin Andrews have done a number of Boiler games this year. As the Boilers improved, Musburger got into this weird habit of calling Coach Matt Painter "Matty." We know Musburger is all lovey-dovey with everyone (and like 300 years older than Painter), but we seriously doubt he'd call Coach K "Mikey." Anyway, we eventually discovered that Robbie Hummel was known as "Ostrich" in high school and, even better, E'Twaun Moore was known as "Smooge." Looking up Smooge, we find it's "funk from a dog's ass." Go on, Musburger, you 68-year-old coot. We dare you. — Boiled Sports

BAYLOR BEARS

1. Dave Bliss was a real dick. Much has been made of the job Scott Drew has done to clean up the mess that was left him, but you really can't quite overstate it. To remind you, former Baylor coach Dave Bliss made illegal payments to his players, and, when he was busted, after the death of Patrick Dennehy, he told his players to lie about money given to Dennehy and tell investigators that he was a drug dealer. Needless to say, Bliss is not coaching anymore, and the Bears spent years in NCAA probation hell until Drew, Mr. Fix-It, came in to reconstruct the whole program.

2. No Valpo. Contrary to popular believe, coach Drew did not get his undergraduate degree from Valparaiso; he went to Butler. His father Homer was the coach and his brother Bryce the hero during that famous NCAA tournament game, but Scott, being less of the athlete, stuck to coaching; he went to Valpo as a grad assistant, and then took over the team for one year when Homer retired. After Scott decided to take the Baylor job, Homer came out of retirement to coach Valpo again, and Bryce, Mr. Athlete Big Shot, is now an assistant to his dad, again.

3. Tweet Tweet. Reserve freshman guard Tweety Carter received his unusual nickname because of his incessant crying as a child. One did not know crying could sound like the words "puddy tat." Oh, and freshman LaceDarius Dunn, even though he doesn't start, might play in the NBA someday. — Will Leitch

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2. No Valpo. Contrary to popular believe, coach Drew did not get his undergraduate degree from Valparaiso; he went to Butler. His father Homer was the coach and his brother Bryce the hero during that famous NCAA tournament game, but Scott, being less of the athlete, stuck to coaching; he went to Valpo as a grad assistant, and then took over the team for one year when Homer retired. After Scott decided to take the Baylor job, Homer came out of retirement to coach Valpo again, and Bryce, Mr. Athlete Big Shot, is now an assistant to his dad, again.

3. Tweet Tweet. Reserve freshman guard Tweety Carter received his unusual nickname because of his incessant crying as a child. One did not know crying could sound like the words "puddy tat." Oh, and freshman LaceDarius Dunn, even though he doesn't start, might play in the NBA someday. — Will Leitch

The ups and downs of this season have been tough on the Baylor Bears. When the Big 12 season began, they were riding high at 12-2, having only lost to then-No. 6 Washington State and Arkansas. The conference slate was going their way as well - they even won an epic 5 OT game against Texas A&M. But after that, things began to fall apart. The Bears lost seven of their next eight to fall below .500 in the conference and needed a recent three-game win streak to climb back onto the NCAA tourney bubble. It's the kind of thing that can drive a fan wild, until you realize that this is the best thing that's happened to them in a long, long time.

Baylor has actually won two NCAA titles - one in men's tennis, and one in women's basketball. But in marquee sports like basketball and football, they fall woefully short time and time again. Hoops-wise, they went 477-651 in the old Southwest Conference. When that league went belly-up, they joined the newly-formed Big 12 and rolled up a putrid .256 win percentage prior to this season. Throw in the odd teammate-on-teammate murder and coaching coverup, and you've got yourself a pretty damn sad representative of your church-sponsored University. It's almost enough to make a feller cuss and drink beer.

The Bears have made the tournament four times in their history, with three of them coming before the Eisenhower administration. The most recent was in 1988, when they lost to a Memphis team that never made it out of the round of 32. But this year's team has 20 wins, talent, and a cornball optimist for a head coach in Scott Drew (of the Valparaiso Drews). Even after losing to A&M at home last night, Baylor has a good chance to go from scandal-rocked outcast two years ago to the postseason. Ask St. Bonaventure how easy that is to do.

Shan, come back! Shan!!! Vanderbilt 86- Mississippi State 85 (OT). Well, that's one way to neutralize Varnado's shot-blocking skills. Shan Foster (42 points) was a blazing 9-15 from the three-point line in this one, including the winning points with .01 left on the clock in OT. Even more amazingly, the Commodores were a perfect 11-11 from the free-throw line as well, though only four Vandys total made it to the stripe.

NIT One, Pearl Two. Tennessee 89- Florida 86. OK, I'm going to go ahead and move the Volunteers into "lock" status for this season. Ha, whew, that joke never gets old. JaJuan Smith was so busy scoring (23 pts) that Forward Tyler Smith ended up leading the team in assists. Florida's Nick Calathes led all scorers with 24 points, and all assisters with 9, but it was not enough to keep the Gators on top all game long.

A Tale of Two Halves. Miami (FL) 74-Boston College 61. After scoring just 20 points in the first half, Frank Haith's Hurricanes found the Eye of the Tiger and damn near tripled that in the second stanza, putting up 54 to inch a little bit higher on the bubble.

Minute Made Men. UMass 100-LaSalle 63. This might be the one that puts the Minutemen in the driver's seat for the second bid in the Atlantic XIV. Each UMass starter scored in double figures, and the bench put in the remaining ten points to lay an even C on Balls State.

Fair To Middlin'. Oklahoma 67-Oklahoma State 56. These two teams sit smack in the middle of the Big 12 geographically and record-wise. The Sooners reached the 20-win plateau despite a season full of injuries, and might be able to eke into the big dance if they can put together a run in Kansas City.

Tonight's Big Game

Stanford (24-4) at UCLA (26-3). Through a quirk of scheduling, it's been more than two full months since the last time these teams played, a 76-67 Bruin victory. If the Cardinal can somehow pull off a win at Pauley, these two teams will end the evening tied atop the Pac-10.

Eric Angevine writes about college basketball for Storming the Floor and CAAZone. He can be reached at stormingthefloor@gmail.com.

Well, we supposed it depends on what kind of inspiration you respond to. If you are fired up when your coach urinates on bars, Schnupp's your man.

Waco police issued a misdemeanor citation charging disorderly conduct-indecent exposure to Baylor assistant football coach Eric Schnupp early Sunday morning after an incident in which a man urinated on a bar at a campus-area club. It happened around closing time Sunday, after the Bears blowout 58-10 loss to Kansas on Saturday.

We respect that Schnupp pulled the stunt on campus; if you're gonna fire up the troops by whizzing in the domestic drafts, it's best to do it where everyone you know can see you.

BU Assistant Coach Cited After Incident In Bar [KWTX]

(Every Day Should Be Saturday has a rather outstanding take on this.)

They're actually counting down the top 144 teams; they actually started in June. They're at No. 92 right now, which is the Baylor Bears. Fans of former hoops stalwarts at Iowa, Seton Hall, Iowa State, Wake Forest, Cincinnati and Missouri will note that their teams have already been previewed, which is kind of depressing, since they haven't gotten to, say, Davidson yet.

Anyway, we like Baylor, because they're coached by Scott Drew, of the Valparaiso family, and not by a guy who, say, accuses the recently murdered of crimes.

Top 144 Teams Countdown [CollegeHoops.net]