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1. Texas lost 18 games last season. The Longhorns won seven in the Big 12 and were shut out of the NCAA tournament for the first time since head coach Rick Barnes arrived in 1998. Sheldon McClellan and Julien Lewis were third and fourth, respectively...

1. The departing Big East 7 are still negotiating their exit from the Big East and are far from finalizing a date to withdraw (although the exit is likely for the fall of 2014). The league still needs to lock in on a television partner (Fox, accordin...

1. Gonzaga coach Mark Few said on the ESPNU college basketball podcast that Florida coach Billy Donovan called him the day after the Zags lost to Butler. He told Few to tell his team "make sure Butler doesn't beat you twice." It was good advice. Gonz...

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan isn't disguising the issues facing the SEC after a subpar non-conference season. The SEC has only two teams in the top 50 in the RPI (Florida, at 10, and Missouri, at 25) -- and four teams below 200. "What you do in Nov...

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan is worried about the extent of the rib injury to senior forward Erik Murphy, which kept the Gators' second-leading scorer out of Sunday night's game at Yale. Murphy first suffered the injury in a win over Air Force on D...

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan would like to play the second half of the Nov. 9 game against Georgetown that had to be canceled due to unfriendly conditions on a warship off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Florida officials said late Tuesday that the...

1. Leadership at point guard will determine a likely champion of a league and/or the nation. That's why it is disturbing that three schools are dealing with issues at the position. Michigan had to suspend Trey Burke. Texas isn't playing Myck Kabongo ...

1. UConn coach Jim Calhoun endorsed the hiring of Mike Aresco to be Big East commissioner. The main reason is that Aresco knows the television industry. "They made the hire they needed to make," said Calhoun of the conference. "He has to negotiate m...

1. The Harrison twins from Richmond, Texas, Aaron and Andrew, were as impressive as they've been billed to be during our ESPNU broadcast Wednesday night at ESPN's Wide World of Sports Complex. The Harrison twins have plenty of suitors with the two wh...

The gold medal won by the USA men's under-18 team in Brazil last week will reverberate across a number of college campuses in the fall. The players who won gold -- the majority of whom are set to begin their freshman seasons -- will benefit from the...

1.Winning gold should never be dismissed. There was a tournament and the U.S. won. That's the goal and it was accomplished by coaches Billy Donovan of Florida, Gonzaga's Mark Few and VCU's Shaka Smart. The U18 championship at the FIBA Americas tourn...

1. The U-18 national team will begin its whittling down process Tuesday in Colorado Springs under the direction of Florida's Billy Donovan, Gonzaga's Mark Few and VCU's Shaka Smart. This is always a team filled with future stars. There are a handful ...

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan said junior forward Erik Murphy will play Wednesday against Arizona after missing the Syracuse game with a bone bruise that was originally thought to be a meniscus tear. The Gators desperately need another forward to pr...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Syracuse continues to flip a switch, find a catalyst and ultimately win. The recipe worked in the NIT Season Tip-Off last week when the Orange beat back Virginia Tech and rallied against Stanford at Madison Square Garden. And ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A quick look at the marquee matchup of the Big East/SEC Challenge, No. 3 Syracuse's 72-68 win over No. 9 Florida on Friday night at the Carrier Dome: Star of the game: Scoop Jardine. Last week in New York, SU's senior guard was r...

1. Pitt coach Jamie Dixon and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim think if West Virginia finds a way out of the Big East for 2012, the Panthers and Orange want to start playing in the ACC then, too. Neither coach wants to go through more than one lame-duck se...