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RecruitingNation ranks the top 10 battles for basketball's elite.

Story | Conversation | June 09, 2013

RecruitingNation ranks the top 10 battles for basketball's elite.

Story | Conversation | May 21, 2013

CHICAGO -- The Big Ten reported another record revenue total for the past fiscal year, and although its members on average sponsor many more sports than their counterparts in the SEC, athletic directors say their football programs have the financial ...

RecruitingNation ranks the top 10 battles for basketball's elite.

Story | Conversation | May 06, 2013

RecruitingNation ranks the top 10 battles for basketball's elite.

Story | Conversation | April 23, 2013

MINNETONKA, Minn. -- On Saturday afternoon, Bo Ryan sat with his peers on the baseline of a gymnasium in the Minneapolis suburbs and reflected on the changes in recruiting he has witnessed in recent years. They've all come in bursts. In the 197...

They say defense wins championships. Oh, really? Friday's results belied that notion. Wisconsin was the Big Ten's top scoring defense in conference play (55.8 PPG allowed). Its abrasive man-to-man style anchors Bo Ryan's philosophy. Force tough...

For our final Man of the Hour, as the early games wind to a close, we turn to a mid-major hero whom I dismissed without cause in my Midwest Region picks, but who is currently putting me to shame with a great performance against Cincinnati. He is: ...

It's so easy to bash the bracket and, by extension, the NCAA tournament selection committee. But this is also a subjective process, where beauty is in the eye of the computers and still, the beholder. The country will never see eye-to-eye with the...

Golic, Seth Greenberg and Dan Dakich welcome ESPN CBB analyst Jay Bilas (7:30 a.m. ET), Michigan coach John Beilein (8:00), Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan (9:00), Kansas coach Bill Self (9:15) and Saint Louis interim coach Jim Crews (9:30) to the show on Mo...

CHICAGO -- Ryan Evans' poor free throw shooting had become a semi-obsession. Wisconsin's senior leader began to think about free throws throughout the day. And then again at night. It wasn't just his decline from a 73 percent clip his junior seaso...

CHICAGO -- Bo Ryan's roster -- a Wisconsin squad that defeated Michigan 68-59 in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament at the United Center on Friday -- lacks the star power some of its league and national peers employ. His Badgers aren't an...

Jared Berggren and Ben Brust each scored 12 points, and No. 19 Wisconsin shut down Northwestern 69-41 on Wednesday night for its fifth win in six games.

1. Kentucky's NCAA tournament fate is probably closely related to what happened to Purdue in 2010, when the Boilermakers were headed toward a No. 1 seed before Robbie Hummel tore his anterior cruciate ligament in a late-February game at Minnesota. Th...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. No. 20 Wisconsin at Minnesota, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN: At some point tonight, Bo Ryan will scream at an official in response to a call he doesn't like. At some point tonight, Minn...

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