The Cram Session is a semi-daily melange of last night's most important hoops action. I just turned on my TV, and there are no college basketball games on. The marathon is over already? But it just started to get good!

Michigan State 75, Gonzaga 71: Gonzaga basketball will be just fine. Anyone worrying that the Zags were due for a down year -- and missing Josh Heytvelt, Jeremy Pargo and lottery pick Austin Daye means those fears were well-founded -- can relax. Gonzaga went in to Michigan State and played with the Spartans for 40 minutes, losing only because Michigan State has a very, very good point guard named Kalin Lucas. Perhaps you've heard of him. Lucas scored big basket after big basket down the stretch for the Spartans, and Durrell Summers had a career-high 21 points, as the Spartans escaped with a win in front of a typically insane Breslin Center crowd. But Gonzaga? Yeah, the Bulldogs will be OK.

Kansas 57, Memphis 54: Speaking of looking OK, how about Memphis? It's unusual to see a Memphis team with inferior talent take the court, but this Memphis team wasn't just inferior to Kansas. They will be inferior to plenty of teams this year, at least until they get into the gooey warmth of that C-USA schedule. But it works. Memphis works. They're still chaotically organized on offense, and they still rely on guard play -- Memphis has few bigs to speak of; at times, Cole Aldrich looked like he stepped on to the wrong court -- but it worked. Memphis's Achilles heel under John Calipari has always been outside shooting, but with the plethora of guards on the floor at any time, if Memphis makes deep shots like they did in the second half Tuesday night, they'll be just fine, too.

Meanwhile, Kansas didn't play all that well. Like, at all. They'll blow out teams better than Memphis this year; the whole was ugly, but there were plenty of flashes in the meantime.

Tennessee 124, UNC-Asheville 49: As my colleague Chris said via email last night, this is one fascinating box score. The halftime score was 66-14. Read that again. Tennessee opened an 18-0 lead to begin the game. Asheville didn't score a field goal -- get this -- until three minutes left in the first half. Did you read what I just wrote? Asheville scored exactly 14 points in 20 minutes of basketball. I didn't watch the game, so I can't confirm there was actually 20 minutes of basketball played, but Tennessee's tally seems to confirm it. And even when Bruce Pearl took his starters out early in the second half, the points kept coming. I have no idea how this sort of thing happens; there is no way UNC-Asheville is 75 points worse than Tennessee, right? Right?

Louisville 96, Arkansas 66: Is Rick Pitino not merciful? ESPN's Pat Forde asked when, exactly, Pitino would take his starters out and ease up on Arkansas's Mark Pelphrey, who is playing with depleted eight-deep lineup in the wake of rape-allegation-related suspensions. Pitino didn't really ease up until there were five minutes left, which is not the most diabolical thing in the world; coaches often like to twist the knife a bit longer. Perhaps Pitino feels a big of scandalized solidarity with Pelphrey. Either way, his team hit 16 threes and doesn't look like it will miss all that much with the losses of Earl Clark and Terrence Williams.

Sundry others: If there was a theme Tuesday night, it was power teams struggling against lesser foes; such was the case with Georgetown, which struggled to a 46-45 win over Temple ... Likewise with UConn, who needed a friendly call or two and some Stanley Robinson goodness down the stretch to pull away from Hofstra ... Duke is already in March shape, as the Devils steamrolled Charlotte at Cameron ... Binghamton, who you might have forgotten about by now, got an unfortunate close-up in a big loss to Pittsburgh. Go ahead, dive in. It's all there for you.

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