Since it's a few weeks until I release another bracket projection, and a month and a half until they become a weekly feature, I wanted to try a little something new. As I was watching games and, more specifically, online scores on Friday night, an idea hit me.

With over 340 teams in Division I, each playing around 30 games, many contests get lost in the shuffle, especially with the majority of the media focused intently on the Big Six conferences. Now, this series won't provie info on every game, though it may seem like it with this initial effort. (I tried something like that last year and it didn't work so well.) What it will bring you are the things that jump out to me as a college basketball nerd.

That being said, this isn't an "inside the box score" feature either, though I will occasionally dip into statistics. Instead, these posts will focus on scores, interesting trends, and just plain strange occurrences that scream for more attention as I look at a day's scores. 

Even though these specific posts will disappear once January arrives (or sooner, depending on my individual whims), this is the type of info you can expect to see in future bracketology posts. Those will naturally be shorter, and these will likely decrease in length over the next few weeks. I have to get past the newness factor after all. 

After the jump, I'll take a look at some things that stood out to me over the first three official days of this 2010-11 season.

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