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Well, well, well. Apparently, a few teams want to go to the tournament after all. OK, so of course everyone wants to play in the NCAA tournament. But watching the past week or so of college hoops, you could have been convinced otherwise. Why, it w...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. Cincinnati at No. 10 Louisville, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN Did you jump off the Louisville bandwagon? It's OK to admit it. After all, those three straight losses in late January ...

In addition to plenty of just-plain-great games -- Louisville's win at Syracuse, Marquette's big home win over Notre Dame, that amazing Duke-Miami thriller at Cameron Indoor Stadium -- Saturday was also filled with bubble action, from the start of th...

As is customary this time of year, there was no shortage of bubbly college hoops action on this late-February Saturday. Let's tease out some winners and losers along the NCAA tournament cut line, shall we? WINNERS Kentucky: No question about it...

It's like our Saturday observations, but on Wednesday instead! A few end-of-day thoughts from another tremendous evening of college hoops: 1. Kansas stole one at Oklahoma State. Don't get it twisted: I'm not saying the Jayhawks didn't deserve to w...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's (or, in this case, day's) best basketball action. "Tell them about the dream, Martin." Cincinnati at No. 6 Syracuse, 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN: That's right, fewer than 48 hours after Syracuse went to Lo...

Here are some things that have happened on college basketball courts in the past 11 days: Nov. 24: Baylor loses at home to College of Charleston, 63-59. Nov. 27: Northwestern loses at home to Maryland, 77-57. Dec. 1: Northwestern loses at hom...

Question of the Day is a new feature here at the blog, wherein yours truly answers one especially thoughtful question, Twitter response, blog comment, email or any other form of written communication designed to elicit (hopefully) intelligent discuss...

Some assorted thoughts on the bulk of Saturday's afternoon action: Baylor 64, No. 8 Kentucky 55: With the benefit of a couple months' distance, it's entirely likely we will look back at this game as nothing more than a good win for Baylor. We will...

In case you needed a sign that Tad Boyle's program remains headed in the right direction, or that the folks saying Colorado was ranked too low in the preseason Pac-12 media poll (yours truly included) were on the side of angels or, mercifully, that t...

You can't learn how to dunk. You either jump, or you don't. You can, however, learn how to shoot: feet shoulder-width apart, right foot an inch ahead of left, elbow over the knee, wrist parallel to the floor, ball gently placed in fingertips, elbow s...

In the buildup to Midnight Madness, Insider and our college hoops team are collaborating on a preview of one high-profile college hoops team per day -- based on Joe Lunardi's top 20 teams in his offseason Bracketology. We're calling it "Countdown To ...

Baylor point guard Pierre Jackson doesn't owe anyone anything. That would be true even if he were professionally compensated for his basketball abilities, but he isn't, at least not yet. Jackson is still a college athlete, and for many college athlet...

As part of our Summer Shootaround series, here are the best- and worst-case scenarios for the Big 12: Baylor Best-case: Whatever your final appraisal on the Perry Jones III era is -- relatively successful but ultimately disappointing is what I'...

This morning, my colleague Fran Fraschilla listed his five under-the-radar teams ready to break out in 2012-13. So today's Top 10 Thursday feature is a quick look at a batch of players who could enjoy a similar trajectory -- players who haven't broke...

Naturally, Kentucky coach John Calipari heard the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics' complaints, immediately realized the error of his ways and got down to scheduling every big-time nonconference game on UK's schedule as a campus-bound home and ...