Top 25 College Basketball Recruiting Classes since 2000

Will Kentucky and Kansas add their 2013 hauls to the mix?

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 Wiggins, the consensus top prospect, would have added to an embarrassment of riches. Instead, Wiggins heads to Kansas where he headlines the No. 2 class -- a recruiting haul that could be No. 1 in most years.

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Top 25 National Broadcasting Jobs in Sports

What are the best jobs in sports broadcasting today?

If you could have any national sports broadcasting job in sports, what would it be? Do you want to be at the games and travel all over the country? Do you want to be a studio host with a more stable work schedule? Do you want to become extremely popular in one niche field or cover a wide range of all sports? Are ratings more important than content?

There are many different ways to value sports broadcasting jobs, but Athlon Sports has tried to rank the best national sports broadcasting jobs in the industry today.

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Revised College Basketball Early Top 25 for 2013-14

NBA Draft's Early Entry Deadline shuffles teams in our look at next season

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 the Cowboys returned point guard Marcus Smart. Originally, we did not rank Oklahoma State under the assumption Smart, projected to be a top-three pick, would leave for the draft. His return makes Oklahoma State the early Big 12 favorite.

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Grading the notable new college basketball coaches for 2013-14

As the coaching carousel comes to a close, we grade new faces at UCLA, USC, Minnesota and more

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 each of the last three seasons, at least 50 Division I programs changed coaches.

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Athlon's Essential 11 Links of the Day

Rounding up the web's best sports links so you don't have to.

This is your daily link roundup of our favorite sports posts on the web for April 26.

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College Basketball Winners and Losers for the Draft Early Entry Deadline

The NCAA's draft deadline has passed, but the NBA deadline still has teams in limbo

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.

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Early College Basketball Top 25 for 2013-14

Could freshman class at Kentucky return Wildcats to No. 1?

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 the BCS in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and Auburn winning in 2010.

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"I thought (they) were in the one-and-one. It was a coaching error."
Michigan coach John Beilein admitting he instructed his players to wait in order to foul the right player, costing his team about 15 seconds.
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With an 82-76 win over Michigan on Monday night, the Louisville men's basketball team claimed its third national championship (1980, '86) in program history. This was head coach Rick Pitino's second national title, having won his first at Kentucky in 1996, making him the first coach in NCAA history to lead two different schools to a national championship. It's only fitting that on Monday morning Pitino learned he was elected for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Picking 12 Losers in the 2013 NCAA Tournament

March Madness ended with few shining moments for Indiana, the Mountain West and more

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 on the stage of the NCAA Tournament.

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