PRESENTING: The First Annual Championship Week All-Buffet Teams

The ball is tipped... and there you are.

You're running for your life ... you're a shooting

And all the years, no one knows. Just how hard you worked, but now it shows...

BECAUSE (in) ONE SHINING MOMENT, you've made the Buf-fet

ONE SHINING MOMENT ... you carried the day

Welcome Subscribers, after watching countless, having a finals schedule that caused the staff to miss several days of Conference Tourneys .. the Buffet has decided on a way to make it up to you.

Whereas in year's past, we've simply told who to look for, predicted who would win (got most of those wrong), released a Buffetology and disappeared into the caverns of Free $$$ and Las Vegas. Not this year. This year, through a rigorous voting process not unlike the Rory Poll, we here at the Buffet have selected the top performers from all 30 conference tournaments and assembled the ultimate 12 Days of Conference Tourney All-Buffet team. The qualifications are simple: you must have played in more than 1 conference tournament game and deference was given to those who teams won their championships and/or made their conference tournament final.

Without further ado...

Ok, a little further ado, as we CHEERS to the 1st Ever All-Buffet

All-Buffet Third Team

• Solomon Bozeman, Arkansas-Little Rock: 22 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists for the surprise tournament champions of the Sun Belt Conference (seeded as W5)
• Kevin Murphy, Tennessee-Tech: Mini-Kenneth had 24.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, 0.3 assists for the Ohio Valley Conference runners-up.
• Brandon Wood, Valparaiso: 24.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists in a dynamic performance for the Crusaders who gave UW-Milwaukee a stern test in their semifinal matchup
• Keith Benson, Oakland: 21.7 points, 9 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and one gigantic problem for the Texas Longhorns for the Summit Champion Golden Grizzlies
• Michael Glover, Iona: 22 pts, 10 rebounds, 1.3 assists for the MAAC runners-up.
• Adrian Oliver, San Jose State: 24.3 points, 5 rebounds, 2.3 assists - the bottom-seeded Spartans sprang a pair of upsets, getting to the conference finals, and he was why.
• Tobias Harris, Tennessee: 22.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 0.5 assists - just unstoppable, unfortunately his team wasn't.

All-Buffet Second Team

• THE KENNETH. Kenneth Faried, Morehead State: 18 points, 18 rebounds, 0.5 assists for the OVC champion Eagles.
• Derrick Williams, UofA: 22 points, 8 rebounds, 1.3 assists - if he didn't play under the virtual shroud of west coast basketball for a presumed "down" Pac10, he would have received a lot more run for national player of the year.
• Andrew Goudelock, College of Charleston: 22 points, 8 rebounds, 1.3 assists - his Cougars should probably still be playing, but unless you are non-tournament worthy Colorado and they are Kansas State, it is extremely difficult to beat a team 3 times in one season. Wofford benefitted, Charleston does not, and Goudelock will have to settle for his All-Buffet honor instead.
• Vlad Moldoveneanu, American - 28 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists - American only played two games, but Vlad's performance was one that couldn't be ignored. He's a senior, so you all missed him, for shame.
• Jamal Olasewere, Long Island U -- the NEC juggernaut is paced by this very fun last name to pronounced -- he had 21.7 points, 11.7 rebounds, and 1 assist per tournament game.
• Reggie Hamilton, Oakland - Hey Longhorns, noticing a trend? 23 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists during Oakland's run through the Summit.
• Tristan Thompson, North Texas. Hey, a Tristan Thompson playing for a Texas school -- maybe if their gunning guards remembered they had one and let him put up 23.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists like this one did, they wouldn't be staring down the Reggie & Benson show. North Texas fell just short of the tourney, losing to King Solomon and the UALR Trojans.
• Harrison Barnes, UNC, hmmm, people aren't talking about how he's a bust so much anymore, are there? 24.7 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist. although, when you are making up 18 point deficits every game, it is easy to light up the score sheet.

All-Buffet First Team

• Alec Burks, Colorado - 25.3 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.7 assists - lit up the stat sheet, got his team to the semis versus eventual champ Kansas (and played them tougher than the Longhorns did), they might have been jobbed by one committee (might have - everyone calm down), but Burks is rightfully recognized here.
• Devon Beitzel, No Colorado - As Buffet subscriber Gregory Douglas Ott pointed out, a small white NW version of Michael Ohre, also a Big Sky tournament stud - 23 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assists
• Isaiah Thomas, Washington - Buzzer Beaters. Dominant peformances and a rare college double-double featuring assists - 22.7, 3.3, and 10 assists. No word if James Dolan is now consulting him for all NYKnick basketball decisions.
• Orlando Johnson, UCSB - This guy went MJ on the Big West, and suddenly an underachieving Gauchos team achieved just what they set out to do -- the NCAA tournament. 28.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists
• Demonte Harper, Morehead St - 26 points, 8.5 rebounds, 5 - when you both lead your team to a conference title and do it by outKenneth'ing the Kenneth, you get All-Buffet.
• Jimmer Fredette, BYU - Subscibers, he had 52. He makes the list. the Buffet hopes he can carry his team into the tourney, just to see if he can have Wally-like NCAA tourney numbers. 35.3 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.7 assists
• Devin Gibson, UTSA - playing for Brooks Thompson is cool. Putting up the only triple-double in the entire 12 days of Conference Tourneys is cooler. Doing it while putting up 23, 8.3 rebounds and 6.3 assists and leading your 9-7 conference team to its 4th ever tourney berth is All-Buffet qualifying.
• KEMBA. I mean, how do you not. If Orlando Johnson went MJ, then Walker went Naismith, because he reinvented basketball in the Garden. 26 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists.

All-Buffet Top Game Performance: For a team that needed conference victories in the last week of the regular season, Devin Gibson made a statement against Northwestern St in the conference opener with 28 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists (with 3 steals to boot). Next stop was Dayton, trying to get the first ever Roadrunner NCAA tournament victory.

All-Buffet Player of the Year: Kemba. 5 games, 5 nights and really he has some good talent around him, but let's be honest - it's all him.