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John Calipari has barely slowed down since New Orleans. Winning a national title usually means there is a slew of requests and even more responsibilities from the school. There are awards to collect, speeches to give and recruits to chase after. ...

Tuesday's quick hitters: • The U-18 U.S. national team that departs for Brazil on Tuesday to compete in the FIBA Americas championship has one current college player on the roster in Tennessee rising sophomore Jarnell Stokes. Stokes had a majo...

Quick hitters post-Final Four: • Pitt and Syracuse representatives won't be at the Big East meetings, but they will be at the ACC meetings in May. The respective coaches will be at the ACC meetings, too. When will the two schools join the AC...

Kentucky coach John Calipari said Wednesday he isn't going to coach the Knicks or any other NBA franchise for the foreseeable future.

ATLANTA -- The comparisons were unfair. Marquis Teague wasn't going to be Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans, John Wall or Brandon Knight. Who could? Kentucky coach John Calipari had a run of elite point guards (at Memphis and Kentucky) that may go...

Kentucky's John Calipari was charged with getting the Dominican Republic basketball program to its first-ever Olympic berth. He came close at the FIBA Americas tournament in Argentina, falling short in the semifinals to Brazil before finishing up ...

Andy Katz, Eamonn Brennan and Diamond Leung answer four big questions for the 2011-12 season.

Our NBA draft guru Chad Ford put together his advice list to the underclassmen still weighing whether or not to stay in the NBA draft. Chad does a nice job of dissecting the options for each player and it's well worth a read. After discussing the ea...

Connecticut won the national championship last week in Houston, but Kentucky won the offseason's first weekend with a dominating presence at the star-studded USA Men's Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Ore. UK-bound big man Anthony Davis led the USA t...

HOUSTON -- Kemba Walker's performance in the Maui Invitational title game against Kentucky on Nov. 24 was remarkable. Walker scored 29 points and was 10-of-17 from the field, 3-of-4 on 3-pointers and 6-of-6 from the free throw line with 6 assists,...

What are the keys to each Final Four team? How can they be beaten? Who better to ask than the fellow conference coaches who are plenty familiar with these last four standing?

Quick hits for a Monday: 1. North Carolina was the team of the week after the Tar Heels won at Florida State on a 3-pointer by Harrison Barnes and then ran away from Duke at the Dean Dome to win the ACC regular-season title. UNC is trending up at t...

The supposed package deal of hiring John Wall's AAU coach at Baylor to lure Wall never happened. Dwon Clifton was an assistant for the Bears while they reached the same destination (the Elight Elight) as Wall's Kentucky Wildcats last season. Clifto...

Kentucky coach John Calipari scheduled this month's trip to Canada and the 10 practices preceding the sojourn to get his heralded newcomer class adapted to his dribble-drive motion offense, increase the roles of his returning players and have the tea...

The fallout from coach Matt Brady and his current employer James Madison losing a civil suit against his former employer, Marist College, over a breach of his contract will likely have at least one consequence: A clause in a coach's contract with his...

Losing a lottery pick to the NBA is never easy. Losing more than one can be debilitating. Let's take at look who is ready to step in to fill the void at each school that lost at least one lottery pick.