DETROIT -- A few musings from the Motor City: • The wind does whip quite a bit off the river here. This has to be the coldest Final Four since it was in Minneapolis in 2001. • The coaches' hotel is at Caesars Windsor in Ontario. So this isn't much different than when the coaches go to Las Vegas for the summer AAU circuit. • Plenty of coaches have complained about the lines getting through the tunnel from Windsor to Detroit. A taxi strike was also an issue. Kansas coach Bill Self said he had to pay $80 to get a taxi to take him through the tunnel early this morning to get to the USBWA awards breakfast at the Detroit Athletic Club. Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg said he couldn't find a place to get ice cream. Don't be surprised to see the coaches flee by Sunday. • The consensus has always been that the top Final Four host cities are San Antonio, Indianapolis, New Orleans and Atlanta. • The Final Four doesn't have a Final Four feel with a central area to congregate, but the people at the facilities here in Detroit have been pleasant to deal with so far. • Oklahoma announced that it is working on a new contract for coach Jeff Capel. Capel probably needs to move up to No. 3 in the Big 12 behind Kansas' Bill Self and Texas' Rick Barnes. He is supposedly at No. 6 behind Oklahoma State's Travis Ford, Texas A&M's Mark Turgeon and Baylor's Scott Drew. • Journalists have a bad record of throwing out names on job lists to see whether they'll stick. But coaches are just as bad about gossiping about which jobs are going to be filled. There have been plenty of wrong directions being thrown out on these job searches. Capel was probably the worst, with his name attached to the Arizona job. • Villanova's Scottie Reynolds said the ball from his last-second layup to beat Pitt on Saturday night in the Elite Eight game in Boston is still in his locker. • Villanova coach Jay Wright said he was fine with the timeline to get to Saturday's semifinal. He said the Wildcats needed a few days to come down from the euphoria of Saturday's win. • North Carolina expects Ty Lawson to leave for the NBA draft, forgoing his senior season. But there is uncertainty as to what Wayne Ellington will do. The buzz on Ellington is erratic, but if he has an outstanding weekend, he might leave one year early, too. • One player whom NBA personnel folks are watching closely this weekend is Stanley Robinson of UConn. Robinson is being bandied about as a possible pick thanks to his spirited, effective and disruptive play recently. • As of late Friday afternoon, Baylor's Scott Drew hadn't heard from Memphis about the opening. • Xavier athletic director Mike Bobinski reiterated again that coach Sean Miller isn't going anywhere. He said Arizona hasn't contacted him and doesn't see Miller heading West. • If there is such a thing as college basketball royalty, Oscar Robertson fits the description. He walks around the hotel and at events and has an aura about him. • Nevada has had good success keeping the job in the family, going from Trent Johnson to Mark Fox and now to David Carter. That has worked at Gonzaga and Butler, too. Nevada was trying to get out of the NIT Season Tip-Off for next season before Fox's departure to Georgia because the Wolf Pack felt that the NIT had snubbed them in consecutive seasons. • North Carolina coach Roy Williams had been talking to then-Memphis coach John Calipari about a potential home-and-home series before Calipari left for Kentucky. That isn't going to happen now that Calipari is gone. Kentucky does play North Carolina next season again, so the two will get a game against each other, this time in Lexington.