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RecruitingNation basketball experts roundtable: What is your one bold prediction for a 2013 recruiting class?

Story | Conversation | May 02, 2013

RecruitingNation basketball experts roundtable: What is your one bold prediction for a player in the Class of 2013?

Story | Conversation | May 01, 2013

Michigan State will be good again next season. How do I know? It's not exactly a bold prediction; Michigan State is good pretty much every year. But I also know for more concrete reasons, specifically Thursday's announcement from East Lansing that sh...

His team finished just 6-26 last season, but that isn't stopping USC guard Jio Fontan from making a bold prediction about next season's Pac-12 title race. "To pick us outside of the top four or five would be a mistake," Fontan told ESPN.com Wednes...

KANSAS CITY -- A few days ago, Texas coach Rick Barnes turned to one of his assistants in practice and made a bold prediction about the 2011-12 season. Well, kind of. "We're going to be good at something -- at least one thing," Barnes told him....

Yesterday we covered the love/hate inherent in this year's NCAA tournament bracket. Let's do something different today. Let's make five bold predictions -- predictions so bold your face will melt, probably, which is itself a bold prediction -- about ...

The Pac-10 will not have a ranked team when the polls come out Monday. Bold prediction, I know. But could the Pac-10 be a one-bid conference? Consider that currently-ranked Washington is now all alone in 10th place in the conference standings. ...

Confident Purdue ready for top-seeded Gators

Let's try this again. The last time I offered a bunch of bold predictions, this happened. I tried to explain my reasoning in this follow-up. Maybe it helped. Maybe it just made things worse. But I'm back again for another round of bold predi...

A week ago, I believed I had it all figured out. Moments after the Selection Sunday pairings were announced, I began to compile my annual "10 bold predictions" column. So I analyzed the bracket. Consulted the mountains of research that streams ...

We've had a few hours to analyze the bracket. So many tough calls to make. No need to waste time, though. Here are a few bold predictions for the 2013 installment of the NCAA tournament. Kansas will not reach Atlanta -- The Jayhawks are certainly...

"College Basketball Live Extra's" Matt Doherty makes three bold predictions for Championship week....

Let's try this again. My first set of "bold" predictions didn't exactly last through the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. But I'm not alone. How many reconfigured their brackets after the Fab Melo news developed? Missouri losing to Norfolk...

Well, it's early, but that doesn't mean we have to wait to make predictions. And in my opinion, you don't waiver. You make statements and projections and you stand by them, regardless of what happens in the coming weeks. Hold me to the following bold...

Last season, Memphis freshman Will Barton made waves when he offered, without having ever played a minute of college basketball, both a prediction and a guarantee that his new team would win the national title in 2011. That prediction did not go so w...

The last time Pittsburgh went to the Final Four was 1940-41. That is a long time ago. It's long enough ago, in fact, that the Final Four wasn't called the Final Four. It was called the "NCAA tournament national semifinals," and the Final Four was sti...