I set up a twitter account prior to the NCAA tournament (http://twitter.com/goodmanonfox if anyone cares), but I still haven't completely figured out why the craze has swept America.

Dwight Howard was talking to several of us after the Magic victory the other night about it. The guy has 16,286 followers - and doesn't give a whole lot of insight (this morning it was "off to shootaround. hit yall later peacceeeee". Then again, it's difficult to give insight when you only have 140 characters of space.

There are several college coaches in the Twitter War, but none have taken it to the level of new Kentucky coach John Calipari and Indiana head man Tom Crean (who happen to be close friends).

Calipari, who has 17,063 followers on his UKCoachCalipari account, has posted 81 updates since he began on April 23.

It seems that about half of them are telling his followers to "read a chapter or 2 when you wake up and b4 u go 2 bed. Read what interests u and it will make u wiser."

TomCrean has 4,300 followers, but he's been even more active with his posts - 177 of them since April 16.

Here are other coaches who are Twittering:

JeffCapel (Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel) - just started, has updated five times and has 16 followers; Needs to pick things up

JoshPastner (Memphis coach Josh Pastner) - A lackluster 13 followers since he began on April 30;

CoachReveno (Portland coach Eric Reveno) - 10 updates and 23 followers

SCUHoops (Santa Clara's Kerry Keating) - 55 followers and 61 updates for the tech-savvy coach

CoachBrucePearl (Tennessee's Bruce Pearl) - Only seven updates, but a valid excuse - recently got engaged

DJHerd (Marshall's Donnie Jones) - Just 11 followers and seven updates. Where are those rabid Thundering Herd fans?

MasonCoachL (George Mason's Jim Larranaga) - The elder statesman of the twittering coaches. Just started it up, has 10 updates already and 76 followers.

Yours truly has just 245 followers and I've only updated 30 times. I just have to make sure the soon-to-be 60-year-old Larranaga doesn't catch me.

Let me know if I missed any college coaches twittering.

EX-KANSAS FORWARD LOOKING AT PAIR

Quintrell Thomas, who played sparingly at Kansas this past season, has targeted two schools - according to a source close to the situation.

The New Jersey native, who averaged 1.5 points, is looking at UNLV and St. Joe's.

His former teammate, Tyrone Appleton, who has just one year left of eligibility, is likely headed to Southern Indiana.

RANDOM NOTES: It's been widely reported that Birmingham Parker (Ala.) point guard Eric Bledsoe has chosen Kentucky over Memphis. ... Seton Hall has locked in a home-and-home series with UMass. ... TCU has hired Cody Hopkins of Indian Hills as its director of basketball operations. ... Davidson has added Iowa State transfer Clinton Mann. ... DeShawn Painter, who parted ways with Florida, is now looking at Virginia Tech, N.C. State, Maryland and Marquette. ... J.R. Smith's younger brother, Chris, has transferred from Manhattan and will walk-on at Louisville. ... Jeremy Parnell, who played four years of basketball at Ole Miss and one year of football as a defensive lineman with the Rebels, signed a free agent deal with the New Orleans Saints. ... Apparently, Hawaii's Roderick Flemings didn't fill out the NBA paperwork correctly to declare for the NBA Draft and will return to the Rainbows for his senior season. "In an effort to be evaluated by NBA teams, I intended to submit my name for the 2009 NBA draft," Flemings said in a statement. "I expressed my intentions to the NBA in writing, however, the process was not completed and I will not be entering the draft this season. I will return for my senior year at UH to work on my game for the 2010 NBA draft.  With our new recruits and the returning players, we have a chance to be a very good team and I believe my draft prospects will only improve." ... Mid-Majority's Kyle Whelliston traveled a ridiculous 26,514 miles this year while attending 109 Division 1 games.