"Mouth of the MAC, Idbihi awarded for gaping hole"

Junior center Yassin Idbihi of the men's basketball team has another trophy to add to his mantle. Idbihi, whose past honors include the Mid-American Conference All-Freshman team and the honorable mention All-MAC squad, was recently bestowed with the title of Largest Mouth in the MAC.

"I am very honored to accept this award," Idbihi said. "It is a longtime coming. I hope to put my mouth to good use, maybe learn another language. I have also considered the field of professional eating competitions. I think I could eat more hotdogs than that Kobayashi guy."

It is believed that Kobayashi, at 5-feet-7-inches and 131 pounds, could fit into Idbihi's abyss with approximately 3 inches of diameter to spare.

Idbihi's roommate and teammate on the basketball team, Andrew Atman, has always wondered what could fit into Idbihi's Moroccan pie hole.

"I have a lot of spare time during games, sometimes my mind trails off," Atman said. "I got to thinking about how big Ya's mouth is, like when he goes up for a rebound, have you seen that thing? If Steven Tyler ever needed a mouth double for his music videos, Ya would have to be in the running."

Idbihi's girlfriend, Jordana Grier, is appalled by the team's childish antics.

"It seems like every night it's something new," Grier said. "One night last year, Brian Andre bet Yassin that he could not fit our German Shepard Rumpelstiltskin into his mouth. Needless to say, he slept on the couch that night. We didn't kiss for weeks."

"We don't kiss that much anyway," she added. "His mouth covers most of my face, oftentimes removing most of my makeup."

Bulls guard Calvin Cage said that he has learned to keep the ball low when he passes the ball to Idbihi.

"When he's out there, he's always got his mouth open," Cage said. "I mean if I throw a pass too high I'm always afraid that it's going to go in his mouth. I think it could fit. You think that would count as a turnover?"

Idbihi believes that as a senior leader next season, he will need to eat up space in the paint in order to dominate the MAC.

"I just hope that they do not use lead-based paint," Idbihi said.

Breakout box:

Things that fit in Idbihi's mouth

- Nine basketballs

- 673 marshmallows

- Two MINI Coopers

- The Bills' offensive line

- 16 bloomin' onions