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College Basketball Countdown: No. 18 Memphis Preview [1]

Joe Jackson leads an all-local starting backcourt for the Tigers

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College Basketball Sleepers: 10 teams that could return to the NCAA Tourney [6]

Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon hopes the Panthers end a one-year Tourney drought.

In 2012, 30 of 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament field missed out a bid a season earlier.

The tally included eight from the six major conferences, including returns to prominence for Indiana and NC State. A quarter of the Sweet 16 -- the Hoosiers, Wolfpack, Baylor and Ohio -- was comprised of teams that a year earlier were either in consolation tournaments or missed the postseason altogether.

In 2012-13, Tournament droughts undoubtedly will end with a handful of teams capable of reaching the second weekend.

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College Basketball's Great 68 Questions: 17 for the South Region [24]

Our top questions for the SEC, Big 12, Conference USA and more

College football season hasn’t begun, but here at Athlon we’re already hard at work in thinking about the 2012-13 basketball season. Believe us, the season will be here before you know it.

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Ranking College Basketball's Best Mid-Major Coaches [40]

After ranking seven conferences, we rate the best of the other leagues

In the last two weeks, Athlon Sports has ranked every coach in the seven powerful basketball conferences -- the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC.

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Top 10 College Coaches Under 40 [68]

Our look at the most accomplished under-40 college football and basketball coaches

What would recent Final Fours be without Butler and VCU? And how boring would college football be without coaches like Lane Kiffin and Pat Fitzgerald.

There’s an intriguing youth movement afoot in college sports where Butler’s Brad Stevens and VCU’s Shaka Smart, both under the age of 40, have reached the final weekend of the NCAA Tournament and subsequently turn down big-time jobs to continue building their mid-major programs.

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College Basketball Conference Realignment: Winners and Losers [83]

How teams and leagues graded out in conference basketball realignment

One of the unfortunate truths of the latest wave of conference realignment is the overwhelming focus on football.

As a result, basketball and other sports have been of secondary concern in some circles. In others, such as at Butler and VCU and in the Horizon, Colonial and Ohio Valley, basketball is the primary engine of revenue. Almost every league in some way has been impacted by the dominoes of realignment.

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UConn, Illinois, Memphis and NC State Lead Bubble Talk [92]

College Basketball [2]
ACC [8]
Big 12 [10]
Big East [70]
Big Ten [11]
Conference USA [3]
March Madness [93]
MVC [94]
SEC [14]

Some traditional powers will miss the NCAA Tournament.

Which NCAA Tournament bubble team had the most damaging loss over the weekend?

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Duke, Louisville, West Virginia and Kentucky Lead Roundtable [95]

College basketball is buzzing with tournament play just a month away.

The calendar has turned to February, so college basketball [103] teams are currently fighting for seeding or just to get in the NCAA Tournament.

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2011-12 Athlon Sports College Basketball Preseason Top 25 [104]

Team previews for our top teams entering the 2011-12 season

2011-12 Athlon Sports Preaseason Top 25

Click on each team for their preview

1. North Carolina [117]

2. Kentucky [118]

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Memphis Tigers 2011 College Basketball Preview [119]

Josh Pastner learned last year that relying almost exclusively on first-year players — even first-year players oozing with talent — isn’t as simple as those who ranked Memphis [124] in the Top 25 of most preseason polls must’ve believed. His Tigers struggled before Christmas and after Christmas, limped through the C-USA portion of their schedule and suffered embarrassing losses to SMU, Rice and East Carolina. It was bad.

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