Things get started here this afternoon. Our trusty Commercial Appeal team will head over to Reliant Stadium in a few hours to cover the media events, which will begin with Michigan State’s press conference and open lockerroom session. I’ll be very interested to see how they set things up at Reliant, which is an NFL stadium and to my knowledge has never hosted basketball. For the fans who are coming down here, this place is huge. The old Astrodome, which is still standing next door, was considered one of the wonders of the world or something like that when it was built. It looks like a pimple on the landscape compared to Reliant.

At this point in the year, I do have much time to spend following recruiting, but I caught the last few minutes of the McDonald’s All-American game last night. Tyreke Evans was the MVP. My sense on Tyreke is that a decision has been made, but he’s going to see how the dust settles on certain things — who’s staying, who’s going, potential coaching moves, etc. — before committing in one direction.

Nothing major to report basketball-wise at this point. I’ll update this afternoon after interviews. I’ll be on Greg and Eli’s show on 560 for the weekly Tiger Basketball Report at 11:20 a.m.