Multiple sources close to the Memphis basketball and football programs have told CBSSports.com that Rose was recently involved in an altercation over a girl with Tiger football player Steven Black, an altercation that didn't go so well for Rose. Put another way, the possible No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft spent the early part of this week looking like a person who had just been in a scrap, making the way he announced his future plans -- through a release distributed by the Memphis Sports Information department -- convenient, if not necessary.

So it's easy to understand why Evans, the fourth-rated high school basketball player in the country, announced Wednesday he was committing to play at Memphis -- and why he has yet to sign his national letter of intent.

Evans insisted there was nothing secretive about his decisions, explaining he had to head directly from the news conference held at his school, American Christian Academy, to New York and the Jordan Brand All-Star Classic, and that he would sign as soon as he returns Monday.

Another day, another high profile freshman announcing he's going pro. This time it is Memphis' Derrick Rose.

Sometime this week, Rose will announce that he's heading to the NBA:

The Commercial Appeal and WPTY-TV both cited sources close to the Memphis program in reporting that Rose, who averaged 14.9 points and 4.7 assists per game in the regular season and 20.8 points in six NCAA tournament games, would declare his intent to enter the draft. the Tigers finished national runners-up to Kansas.

WPTY and cable news channel CNBC also reported that Rose is close to signing with agent Arn Tellem. When asked about the possibility of signing Rose, Tellem's agency, Wasserman Media Group, declined to comment, according to WPTY's report.

No, instead, Derrick Rose -- who took his Memphis Tigers all the way to the National Championship Game and could be the No. 1 overall pick -- is going to pick Arn Tellem of the Wasserman Media Group to represent him in the NBA Draft in June.

Tellem, who is already representing the Lopez brothers from Stanford as well as Anthony Randolph from LSU, didn't return a call seeking comment.

This was a shock because Derrick Rose was so connected to William Wesley, who had steered clients towards Leon Rose, agent of LeBron James and Allen Iverson.

Memphis nearly won the 2008 NCAA Tournament but let it slip away in the closing moments. It would have given Memphis and Conference USA their first national championships ... and the first title for a "non-BCS" school since 1990.

Yes, it has been 18 years since UNLV (then from the Big West Conference) crushed Duke for the national championship. Since then, the ACC has won six, SEC has won five, Big East has won three, Pac-10 has won twice and the Big XII and Big Ten each winning once (see the list after the jump).

The last non-BCS team to win a title before UNLV was Louisville (who was in the Metro Conference) in 1980 and 1986. Marquette was an independent when they won the championship in 1977. Interesting that both Marquette and Louisville were members of the C-USA until 2005.

Just getting to the Final Four is quite the feat. Memphis joins George Mason ('06), Louisville ('05), Marquette ('03), Utah ('98), UMass ('96) and Cincinnati ('92) as non-BCS schools getting to the Final Four since those great UNLV teams. Of those teams, only Memphis and Utah advanced to the title game.

Did you miss Monday night's National Championship game? Were you a disgusted Kansas fan that turned the channel thinking your team was done and miss the comeback? Do you want to see where Memphis let it get away and stew about those "if we just" moments?

Hell ... do you want to see a great basketball game? Well, you can.

ESPN Classic is going to replay the Kansas-Memphis game on Tuesday night at 11:00pm EDT. It will be shown following the conclusion of the women's National Championship game pitting Tennessee and Stanford (that will be on ESPN).

See the first overtime title game since 1997. The first championship for Kansas since 1988. The (seemingly) only good game in the entire NCAA tournament this year.