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2013-14 College Basketball Conference Snapshot: SEC
College Basketball In 2013-14, Kentucky will try to pull off a rare college basketball feat by going from national champion to NIT, then back to national champion. As our league-by-league snapshots continue into the ...
2 days ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Florida Gators, Kentucky Wildcats, Missouri Tigers, Tennessee Volunteers, Conference snapshots

2013-14 College Basketball Conference Snapshot: Big Ten
College Basketball The college basketball calendar is getting moved up with Midnight Madness shifting from mid-October into September. The look ahead to the 2013-14 season has also been moved up as Athlon starts to t...
4 days ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, News, Big Ten, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes, Conference snapshots

College Football's Greatest Discontinued Nicknames
College Football There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there may be a name change. After more than a decade as simply the “Warriors,” Hawaii announced Tuesday the school’s men’s athlet...
1 week ago by David Fox Tags: College Football

Top 25 College Basketball Recruiting Classes since 2000
College Basketball Even though Kentucky lost out on Andrew Wiggins on Tuesday, the Wildcats may still have a signing class for the ages. The Wildcats bring in six McDonald’s All-Americans for 2013-14, and Wigg...
1 week ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Connecticut Huskies, Florida Gators, Kansas Jayhawks, Kentucky Wildcats, North Carolina Tar Heels, Ohio State Buckeyes, Syracuse Orange, Texas Longhorns

24 Notable Names Who Will Be Snubbed by the College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Tommie Frazier’s long wait for the College Football Hall of Fame ended Tuesday when the former Nebraska quarterback was inducted after his third year on the ballot. That Frazier, who quarter...
2 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football

25 Things to Know from Spring Football
College Football Depending on your point of view, spring practice is either a respite from the football-free months of winter and a taste of things to come in August. On the other hand, it’s only appealing to the...
3 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Boise State Broncos, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia Bulldogs, Louisville Cardinals, LSU Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, Missouri Tigers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers, Penn State Nittany Lions, Pittsburgh Panthers, Stanford Cardinal, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns, USC Trojans, Virginia Tech Hokies

Revised College Basketball Early Top 25 for 2013-14
College Basketball The NBA’s early entry draft deadline has come and gone, creating enough movement to make us re-evaluate our early rankings for 2013-14. Chief among them, we re-visited Oklahoma State after th...
3 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Arizona Wildcats, Colorado Buffaloes, Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Florida Gators, Gonzaga Bulldogs, Indiana Hoosiers, Kansas Jayhawks, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Marquette Golden Eagles, Memphis Tigers, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, New Mexico Lobos, North Carolina Tar Heels, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Saint Louis Billikens, Syracuse Orange, Tennessee Volunteers, UCLA Bruins, VCU Rams, Wichita State Shockers, Wisconsin Badgers

Grading the notable new college basketball coaches for 2013-14
College Basketball Coaching turnover in college basketball appears to be as tame as ever. With 39 coaching changes so far, the 2013-14 coaching carousel is poised to be the most inactive since in four years. In ...
4 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Big 12, Big Ten, Mountain West, Pac-12, Minnesota Gophers, New Mexico Lobos, Northwestern, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Texas Tech Red Raiders, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans

College Basketball Winners and Losers for the Draft Early Entry Deadline
College Basketball The NCAA’s early entry draft deadline, moved up to April 16, functioned more like a suggestion rather than any sort of rule this season. A handful of underclassmen announced their intentions...
5 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Florida Gators, Kentucky Wildcats, Marquette Golden Eagles, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Tennessee Volunteers

Early College Basketball Top 25 for 2013-14
College Basketball The Bluegrass State could be on its way to becoming the basketball version of Alabama. The football championship hasn’t left the state of Alabama four years, with the Crimson Tide winning th...
5 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, ACC, American, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, West Coast, Arizona Wildcats, Colorado Buffaloes, Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Florida Gators, Gonzaga Bulldogs, Kansas Jayhakws, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Marquette Golden Eagles, Memphis Tigers, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, New Mexico Lobos, North Carolina Tar Heels, Ohio State Buckeyes, Saint Louis Billikens, Syracuse Orange, Tennessee Volunteers, UCLA Bruins, VCU Rams, Wichita State Shockers, Wisconsin Badgers

Picking 12 Losers in the 2013 NCAA Tournament
College Basketball Legacies are made in March. Or in this case, unmade. For all the accomplishments for coaches, players and teams through the 2012-13 season, so much of the perception and reputations are built ...
6 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Georgetown Hoyas, Gonzaga Bulldogs, Indiana Hoosiers, Missouri Tigers, NC State Wolfpack, Ole Miss Rebels, Pittsburgh Panthers, 2013 March Madness

Picking 12 Winners in the 2013 NCAA Tournament
College Basketball Only one true winner will be happy at the end of the NCAA Tournament, so the cliche goes. That much may be true. All but one locker room at the end of the tournament will have its share of sad...
6 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Iowa State Cyclones, Louisville Cardinals, Marquette Golden Eagles, Memphis Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, Ole Miss Rebels, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Wichita State Shockers, 2013 March Madness

National championship instant analysis: Louisville claims title
College Basketball That was ... fun. Louisville’s 82-76 win over Michigan was simply one of the best national title games in several years. Stars Trey Burke and Peyton Siva played at a high level with Burke ...
6 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, 2013 March Madness

Video: Michigan's Spike Albrecht lights up Louisville
College Basketball Shortly before CBS cut to Trey Burke receiving the Naismith Award as the top player in the country, the Michigan point guard wasn’t even the best point guard on his own team in first half of the ...
6 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, 2013 March Madness

College Basketball National Championship Preview: Louisville vs. Michigan
College Basketball Despite the wild ride of the Final Four, the national championship game feels like a heavyweight bout. On Saturday, Louisville walk-on Tim Henderson and Michigan’s little-used freshman Caris...
6 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, 2013 March Madness

11 Amazing Stats from the Final Four
College Basketball For two athletic programs that are among the most successful in the country, the 2013 national title game will end droughts for both. Louisville is playing in the national championship game fo...
6 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, 2013 March Madness

Final Four Preview: Louisville vs. Wichita State
College Basketball Louisville and Wichita State endured gut-checks in the form of three-game losing streaks earlier this season. Until the Final Four, that’s one of the few things the Cardinals and Shockers have ha...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Wichita State Shockers, 2013 March Madness

Final Four preview: Michigan vs. Syracuse
College Basketball Michigan and Syracuse arrive at the Final Four both as No. 4 seeds, both as teams that rebounded from late-season struggles. The path has been similar since about February, but not necessarily...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Michigan Wolverines, Syracuse Orange

10 Candidates to Replace Fired Rutgers Coach Mike Rice
College Basketball A day after a video compilation of player mistreatment aired on ESPN, Rutgers fired coach Mike Rice on March 3. After the program recovers from a public relations nightmare which cost the job ...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Ranking the Top 15 players in the Final Four
College Basketball The cast of characters in this year’s Final Four covers a wide range of careers and personalities, and pretty much all are at the top of their games. Michigan’s Trey Burke is the only Asso...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, Syracuse Orange, Wichita State Shockers, 2013 March Madness

NCAA Tournament: How the Final Four teams were built
College Basketball Being a Missouri Valley team and a No. 9 seed isn't the only way Wichita State is an outlier in the Final Four. Gregg Marshall’s roster is an anomaly in this year's national semifinals. Unli...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, Syracuse Orange, Wichita State Shockers, 2013 March Madness

Ware's injury becomes Sunday's top story: Reaction from around the country
College Basketball Louisville romped in the second half against Duke to defeat the Blue Devils 85-63 for a trip to its second Final Four, but the news of the day was the devastating injury to Cardinals guard Kevin Wa...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals

10 Amazing Stats Leading into the Final Four
College Basketball The field is set for the 2013 Final Four, and three quarters of it managed to surprise us. Michigan and Syracuse struggled near the end of the regular season, but the Wolverines’ freshmen an...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, Syracuse Orange, Wichita State Shockers, 2013 March Madness

Elite Eight Sunday Schedule: Times, TV, announcers and more
College Basketball The second day of the Elite Eight may feel more like a Final Four or national championship weekend. The South and Midwest regional finals feature four teams that were ranked No. 1 for str...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Duke Blue Devils, Florida Gators, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan Wolverines, 2013 March Madness

Wichita State beats Ohio State for unlikely run to Final Four
College Basketball Wichita State will be the party crasher. The Shockers defeated Ohio State 70-66 to advance to the Final Four and ensure the teams competing for the national title will have an outsider among t...
7 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Ohio State Buckeyes, Wichita State Shockers

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