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Now that uber-recruit Andrew Wiggins has chosen a school, Jason King updates his early Top 25 for the 2013-14 season.

With some crucial NBA draft decisions shifting the college basketball landscape, Jason King updates his early Top 25 for the 2013-14 season.

UCLA fans have a lot on their psychological platters right now. Not only are they doing their best to forget the last four years of Ben Howland's tenure, they must also wrestle with what it means that a coach run out of Iowa in the same spring UCLA w...

Shabazz Muhammad is one-and-done at UCLA.

While it's a near certainty that Shabazz Muhammad will enter the NBA draft, the UCLA freshman has yet to make an announcement. New coach Steve Alford acknowledged he has not had any contact with Muhammad.

The Pac-12 announced plans Tuesday to commission an independent review of officiating during the league tournament after comments by the conference's coordinator of officials raised questions about its integrity.

Former Pac-12 coordinator of officials Ed Rush agreed to a question and answer session Friday night in response to the allegations made by a number of officials in the Pac-12 to ESPN and other media outlets.

1. The NCAA's random date of April 16 to declare for the NBA draft isn't pressuring a number of players into making quick decisions. Coaches are now savvy to the date as being meaningless. That's why Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk may wait to decide until th...

LOS ANGELES -- Hiring Steve Alford as UCLA basketball coach saved at least one Bruins player. Or, perhaps more accurately, firing Ben Howland did. UCLA guard Norman Powell said Tuesday he was staying at UCLA after considering transferring, and...

New Mexico men's basketball coach Steve Alford will be the next head coach at UCLA.

1. UCLA, USC and Minnesota are finding out what Oregon and others have discovered in how difficult it is to extract coaches from good situations. On the surface the jobs are perceived as better jobs than what some of these coaches currently have, but...

After seeing the Los Angeles Lakers' winning streak come to an end at 33 games in 1972, forward Jim McMillian said NBA fans had seen something special. "We just finished a streak that I don't believe any other team is going to break," he told the ...

1. Minnesota coveted VCU's Shaka Smart, but his former boss, current Golden Gophers athletic director Norwood Teague, couldn't convince Smart to come to the Twin Cities (he should know Smart is loyal to VCU) for the head-coaching job from which Tubby...

LOS ANGELES -- Rick Pitino? Really? Billy Donovan? Phil Jackson? Why on Earth would UCLA want to hire one of those guys? OK, they are all proven winners who have shown they know how to run a program with consistent success. On that level, it...

LOS ANGELES -- Former UCLA and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is hoping to dive into the Bruins' search for a basketball coach. Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a three-time national champion as a member of the UCLA basketball t...

It's a tenuous time to be in charge of a program that is expected to be good but can't quite get a handle on how far it should go to be championship-level good. Ben Howland found out the hard way at UCLA.