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The Champions Classic, a two-game, one-night November event conjured up two years ago, was pretty much always guaranteed to be a success. Indeed, it was just what the sport needed -- a big, marquee event featuring four of the game's best programs and...

No, we're not talking about the imbeciles on Twitter, the people who take time out of their day to write horrible things to an 18-year-old kid because he chose to attend a school different from the one they root for (and probably didn't even attend t...

In 2011, when Hunter Mickelson committed to John Pelphrey at Arkansas, he was highly regarded. He was the No. 8-ranked power forward in the class, the No. 55-ranked overall player, and a key part of the recruiting class that was supposed to save Pelp...

The reaction has been mostly predictable. When news broke last Tuesday that Oklahoma State point guard Marcus Smart, a likely top-five pick in the 2013 draft, would instead return for his sophomore season of college hoops, the usual gamut was run: su...

The 2013 draft is bad. Weak. Shallow. Limited. Bereft of quality players. The worst since 2000. Insert your own preferred pejorative wherever you like, but know it's probably been used already. A consensus has been reached: If you're looking for futu...

College basketball differs from the pro game in innumerable ways, so for now let's just focus on one: the importance of stars. In the NBA, especially in the postseason, star power is everything; you can't win a title without at least two All-Stars...

DAYTON, Ohio -- All season, Iowa State has been confounding opposing defenses with endless floor spacing and perimeter shooting. All season, Ohio State has breaking the wills of opposing perimeter players with endless defensive harassment. Unstopp...

DAYTON, Ohio -- Three years ago, Fred Hoiberg almost looked lonely. It was Hoiberg's first Big 12 media day as the coach at Iowa State, his alma mater, and when each coach sat down to field questions at their own folding table, the media scrum wen...

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. No. 5 Georgetown at Villanova, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN2 Nothing is ever totally cut-and-dried on the bubble. It's important to remember, because every season, when early March ...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. Arkansas at Missouri, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN Every now and then, you hear someone characterize Missouri as a team that can't go on the road. This is not entirely unfair -- the ...

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 best basketball action. It thinks that if there were an Emmy for "iciest performance in a supporting role," Robin Wright would have the thing sewed up already. No. 21 Notre Dame at No. 16 Pittsbur...