Good luck keeping up with the Hansbroughs

Who would have guessed that brothers Ben and Tyler Hansbrough both would have us watching and waiting their next move in the very same week?

But with Ben weighing his options after an unhappy exit from Mississippi State, and with Tyler weighing his options after an unsatisfying exit from the NCAA Tournament last week, there's plenty of discussion about where the two basketball-playing Poplar Bluff High grads will land and why.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times comes news that Hansbrough met with North Carolina coach Roy Williams about a potential leap into the NBA. Click here for that story, and then click here to read an observation from the Raleigh News & Observer listing the reasons Hansbrough should come back for his final season as a Tar Heel.

And on the Ben front, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal writer Greg Ellis wonders about the growing list of defections from the Mississippi State program, including that of Hansbrough (who curiously cited as one of his reasons the lack of practice time at Humphrey Coliseum, which is often booked with other non-sports events).