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1. Character does count. Of course, it matters when it is put alongside talent. But the two players in the NBA draft lottery who continue to get high marks for character, performance and readiness are Indiana's Victor Oladipo and Georgetown's Otto Po...

In the weeks leading up to the June 27 NBA draft, we'll be taking a look at the 20 schools that have produced the best pros in the modern draft era (since 1989, when the draft went from seven to two rounds). Click here to read Eamonn Brennan's explan...

Editor's Note: This month, ESPN Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts are teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season. Today's featured program: Marquette , whi...

Editor's Note: This month, ESPN Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts are teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season. Today's featured program: North Carolina....

The NBA draft early entry deadline has passed, so we now have a solid image of what most teams will look like in 2013-14. Recruits have signed letters of intent, many transfers have picked new schools, coaches have been hired and fired, and standout ...

1. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said Thursday on our ESPNU College Basketball podcast that underclassmen should be able to work out for NBA teams before making a decision on whether to remain in the draft. That was the rule before the change by the...

Youth has reigned in the one-and-done era. Tim Duncan and other former collegiate veterans were praised as mature prospects when they turned pro nearly 20 years ago. In the 2012 NBA draft, however, five of the first 10 picks were selected follo...

Doug McDermott's decision to stay at Creighton means he is getting a rare chance to play for the same school, in the same arena, but have a completely different experience in a new league -- a Big East.

1. The new Big East presidents are expected to meet in the next week to interview four or five finalists for the commissioner's job. Creighton athletic director Bruce Rasmussen said Thursday the 10 athletic directors haven't been told of the finalist...

1. The preseason Big East Player of the Year has never played a minute of basketball in the Big East. 2. His dad can breathe a sigh of relief. 3. Dude. Awesome. Those were the first reactions, precisely ordered, that fired through my synapses Th...

On Wednesday morning, in a column detailing his and a score of other decisions still in flux before Sunday's final NBA draft decision deadline, I wrote the following about Syracuse forward C.J. Fair: The good news for those Syracuse fans afflicted i...

The ridiculous thing would have been to go -- to take a media guide-enhanced 6-foot, 165-pound body, toss it into the shark-infested NBA draft waters and pray for the best, when the best looked like the second round. Turns out, though, that Russ S...

Decisions, decisions. The official NCAA draft deadline is just so NCAA, isn't it? Two years ago, when the organization made its NBA draft withdrawal deadline almost comically early, it did so to appease coaches who proposed they shouldn't have to ...

1. A number of college stars still have major decisions to make this week on their NBA draft plans and, according to either coaches or family members, the decisions are down to 50-50 for Miami's Shane Larkin, Michigan State's Adreian Payne, Creighton...

St. John's guard D'Angelo Harrison is on track to return to the Red Storm next year, after being suspended for the team's final six games of the season.

Georgetown's Otto Porter will announce Monday whether he is declaring his eligibility for the NBA draft.