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A fundraiser. Michigan hockey alumnus Scott Matzka passed away from ALS this year. His teammates have a gofundme up to help defray educational expenses for his kids:

Could you hurry up with those maybe? The NCAA is set to act in some capacity against six as-yet-unnamed basketball programs swept up in the FBI probe:

ORLANDO, Fla. -- At least six Division I men's basketball programs will receive notices of allegations for Level I violations from the NCAA by the summer, stemming from the federal government's recently completed investigation of the sport, a top NCAA official told CBS Sports.

Stan Wilcox, NCAA vice president for regulatory affairs, said two high-profile programs would receive notices of allegations by early July.

LSU, Arizona, Kansas, and Louisville are almost certainly four of the six.

This is a bifurcation point for the NCAA. Anything short of crippling penalties for programs that are either already on probation, like Louisville, or had head coaches directly participating in buying players, like LSU and Arizona, and there are no rules worth following. Single-season post-season bans aren't going to cut it.

[After THE JUMP: Mutumbo! Oars!]

Get your own otter. Aurelien the Otter of Win is an entirely inappropriate mascot for Illinois sports, for obvious reasons. That's not stopping some hopelessly optimistic Illini fans on the internet:

[Bryan Fuller]

Jordan Poole's cat should be named "Splash" tho. For so many reasons! Anyway here's what Ace has been watching on repeat for the last couple days:

Been a while since we've had a good Harbaugh quote. But this one from Wilton Speight is a doozy:

Early in his Michigan tenure, Harbaugh pulled Speight aside and told him not to eat chicken, a protein that is considered fairly safe by nutritionists. When Speight asked why, Harbaugh said, "because it's a nervous bird."

"He thinks some type of sickness injected its way into the human population when people began eating white meats instead of beef and pork," Speight says. "And he believes it, 100 percent."

The Pork Advisory Council just spiked its glove into the dirt and walked away, fading into oblivion before it exited the outfield.

But what's even better is Matt Hayes's attempt to pivot from Harbaugh's crypto-Lamarckian theory of nutrition to his banal-to-the-point-of-narcolepsy response to questions about his starting QB:

That wasn't any less strange than the way Harbaugh responded to questions about Patterson during Big Ten media days. How he insisted the best quarterback on his roster—and the one guy who can save the program—is just one of four quarterbacks available.

That's right, he said available.

Well, folks. I'm baffled. I have no way to connect the dots between Jim Harbaugh Thinks Eating Lobster Makes You Grow Claws and Jim Harbaugh Said "Available" In A Press Conference being equally odd. I mean, I get that Patterson is a lock to start, but surely Hayes has been around the block enough to know that coaches play coy about their starters about 90% of the time they don't have a returning player.

[After the JUMP: bad math! OL weight news!]