Long weekend out there, eh? Halloween -- the decorating, the partying, the passing of candy -- is a major distraction from the college hoops world; you can go an entire weekend without visiting Kenpom once. It's horrible! Which is why we ought to play catch-up for a few minutes here. Here's the best and most important of what happened over the past three days:

• John Wall's eligibility issues are resolved. Wall is forced to pay back around $800 in expenses from former AAU coach and then-registered agent Brian Clifton, and the freshman Kentucky point guard will also miss two games as punishment. Wall will be able to play in Kentucky's exhibition with Clarion on Friday, and his first regular season game will be Nov. 16 at Miami (OH). In other words: meh. No big deal.

• In another marginal bit of Kentucky-related basketball news, Billy Gillispie plead guilty to a suspicion of DUI charge he incurred on a Kentucky back road on Aug. 27 (my birthday, so, um, yay?). Gillispie apologized through a statement at the hearing, where he was, according to the Associated Press, wearing a "a dark suit and yellow tie." I know it was probably just a gray suit with a yellow and blue tie, or something, but my mind immediately pictured Gillispie in a giant zoot suit with yellow pin stripes and a top hat. If you're going to go to court, you might as well dress like a comic book supervillian, right? That's my motto. (Note: That's not actually my motto.)

• The Dagger's Rivals brethren is right on schedule with its preview series (whereas we are woefully behind), which means they just posted their No. 4 preview, Villanova, by the estimable Jason King. Check out the entire series of 347 previews here. Comprehensive doesn't begin to describe it.

• In the meantime around the ever-expanding college hoops blogosphere, Rush the Court is insanely and awesome previewing every team in one line on Twitter; Storming The Floor is readying for the college hoops explosion; and the dean of mid-major hoops blogging, Mid-Majority's Kyle Whelliston, has returned from his offseason hiatus with a sprawling essay about life, love, sports journalism, mid-major hoops, and the life of his site in the post-big-corporate-columnist era. It's well worth a read, as you can imagine.

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