OLD YELLER: The style of celebration exhibited by Kentucky’s Archie Goodwin has not escaped The Post’s Phil Mushnick. (AP)
An Ancient Far Eastern wisdom states, “A full notebook produces many notes.” Plus, writing on St. Patrick’s Day, how can I forget my old pal, Dooley? So let’s call this many-notes column Dooley Noted, and let us begin:
* Of course, the Garden raised Rangers ticket prices. You didn’t think Jimmy Dolan was going to hand out those “Welcome Back” T-shirts and not pass along the cost, did you?
* Reader Rob Pinta writes this “is a wonderful time of the year, when you can tune to WFAN and listen to Mike Francesa watch college basketball games.”
* Saturday morning’s “SportsCenter” included highlights from Friday’s Vanderbilt-Kentucky game. Only one highlight was shown twice, and once, even in close-up slow-motion: UK’s Archie Goodwin howling and gesturing in excessive self-appreciation after a slam-dunk.
Did it matter to Goodwin that Kentucky was being beaten, or to ESPN that Kentucky would be blown out? Obviously not.
* The Jets now accumulate backup QBs the way the Mets do fourth outfielders.
* Yep, this is a time of year when Francesa — “Dishonest Mike” — rounds into form. One time he and Chris Russo hosted a Sunday night “Selection Show,” praising the NCAA Tournament committee for a job very well done.
After reading the next day’s newspaper stories ripping the selection committee’s many bad choices, Francesa and Russo ripped the Tournament committee for a job poorly done.
* In its in-or-out double-OT loss to Memphis on CBS on Saturday, Southern Miss was 15-for-28 — 53 percent — from the foul line. Memphis wasn’t much better — 16-of-25, 64 percent. Yet, such stats — for some latter-day reason — are rarely reported, ignored as unimportant.
* ’Twas a mere 13 months ago, with Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire down, when the Knicks were forced to give that Jeremy Lin kid a shot. Lin and the Knicks’ lesser-paid/regarded types then ran their opponents goofy.
* Sam Rosen’s a good guy and the beloved longtime TV voice of the Rangers. But the notion that as such he should be immune from the ravings of John Tortorella, or any coach — as if only newspaper guys should be made to suffer such abuse — is as nutty as that look in Tortorella’s eyes.
* Saturday, 11 a.m., WFAN airs an ad for “Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club,” replete with “VIP Rooms” and a “6-9 Happy Hour.” Immediately — and appropriately — following that spot, came a promo for the “Boomer and Carton Show.” And moments after that, a commercial for this-is-not-a-drill! Carnival Cruise Lines.
* Through 63 games before yesterday, the Knicks have attempted 488 more 3-pointers than their opponents — nearly eight more per game.
* How to cure callers to radio shows from starting with, “Thanks for taking my call?” Easy, writes Tom Cunningham, Atlanta: “Just say, ‘You’re welcome,’ then hang up.”
* UConn’s recent episodes with criminality among its athletic recruits — not to mention a Huskies football player stabbed to death at an on-campus party — has not prevented UConn and Nike from teaming to intro a new, more vicious-looking Huskie mascot/logo.
* Friday, with 1:38 left, Indiana’s Victor Oladipo took a breakaway pass and, all alone and at top speed, performed a 360-degree slam to give the Hoosiers an 18-point lead over Illinois. That Oladipo risked injury and/or humiliation to show off and rub-it-in — let alone that he was still in the game — seemed ridiculous.
But in her postgame chat with Indiana star Cody Zeller, ESPN sideliner Samantha Ponder gleefully asked him to address one play — that Oladipo slam.
* CBS’ studio show Saturday included a chat with NCAA selection committeeman and Xavier athletic director Mike Bobinski. It was a shame no one asked what he thought about the 30 points Dez Wells scored for Maryland in beating Duke the night before.
Wells was recruited to Maryland after he was kicked out of Xavier for seriously rotten behavior.
* Can’t put anything past our readers. Several have wondered how Carmelo Anthony, covered with tattoos, could be resistant to needles.
* Then there was last year, when Dishonest Mike told Wally Szczerbiak he agreed UConn “doesn’t deserve to be in the Tournament.” Days later, with Huskies coach Jim Calhoun on the air, Francesa declared those who think UConn doesn’t belong are fools!
* Leave it to Doc Emrick, on NBC’s Bruins-Pens yesterday, to know and tell — and on St. Patrick’s Day — the Pittsburgh Shamrocks once played in the IHL.
* Nice job by MSG Friday, the day after Jack Curran passed, plugging in a re-run of Fran Healy’s “Halls of Fame” chat with Curran.
* What’d we think of Notre Dame’s flaming lime green uniforms? Hey, green is the color of adidas money, ya know? Sit up, roll over, beg.
* Student-athlete first-round game of the week: San Diego State-Oklahoma in Philadelphia.
* CBS’ Clark Kellogg, as Wisconsin was beating Indiana for a 12th straight time: “Sometimes a team just kinda has your number. And in this case, it not only has your number, but your address, too!”
* Mark their words. On ESPN Friday, Jalen Rose volunteered he “loves” court-storming, to which Digger Phelps, already among many on record in mirthful agreement, agreed. That 76 people have been injured — seven critically, and many permanently — in four episodes over the last 20 years, well, just mark their words.
* Tom Murphy, Little Silver, accuses me of abject stupidity in suggesting when Francesa heard “Francis. . .” he thought for a second he’d been named Pope. Murphy: “What he thought was that the new Pope had taken his name.”
Thanks for taking my column.