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Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour wasn't at Sunday night's game against USC. She was traveling back to the Bay Area, but upon landing, was quickly apprised of what occurred during the Bears' game against the Trojans. Cal coach Mike Montgomery had...

Former Pac-12 coordinator of officials Ed Rush agreed to a question and answer session Friday night in response to the allegations made by a number of officials in the Pac-12 to ESPN and other media outlets.

Former Pac-12 coordinator of officials Ed Rush, who resigned Thursday less than a week after he was accused of putting a bounty on Arizona coach Sean Miller, said his comments to his officials were "absolutely, 100 percent said in jest."

1. At least one coach in the new Big East, filled with the Catholic 7 schools and likely Butler and Xavier, has been told to anticipate a 16-game schedule next season, according to one source with knowledge of the situation. That would force the seve...

1. This could be a year where there is no consensus among the various player of the year awards from the Wooden, to the AP to the Naismith to the Oscar Robertson to the Rupp. That's why Indiana's Victor Oladipo, Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart, Kansas'...

With the conference season set to get under way, Andy Katz takes a look at what's in store for the Pac-12 Conference.

1. Cal coach Mike Montgomery's decision to extend his contract through the 2015-16 season is a good sign for the game. Montgomery is a cancer survivor and it was fair to speculate how much longer he wanted to coach. But Montgomery, who did Hall of F...

UCLA's recent mediocrity hasn't been celebrated or seen by the rest of the Pac-12 as an opportunity. Instead, the conference desperately needs the Bruins to come back -- and fast. Having Arizona dip, even just for one season, didn't help either. So...

1.The Illini finally got that they have something to play for: themselves. In their win over Iowa Sunday, Illinois actually looked like a team that still cared about playing and fighting for an NCAA tournament berth. Meyers Leonard and Brandon Paul ...

Andy Katz has 20 questions to ponder as the fourth annual Tip-Off Marathon gets underway on ESPN.

The 2011-12 season is filled with great matchups. Here are 25 games you can't miss.

We asked rival coaches to assess each of the 50 players on the Wooden Award's preseason watch list.

Andy Katz updates his early top 25 after the NBA draft's early-entry deadline

Andy Katz takes a (very) early look at the top 25 for 2011-12 and finds some familiar names at the top.

The Pac-10 is considering a compromise that would have California and Stanford placed with the Northwest region schools to secure a north-south division split.

The new 12-team Pac-10 will likely follow the lead of the new 12-team Big Ten. In other words, starting in the 2011-12 school year, it looks like the conference will split into two divisions for football but remain one, 12-team entity in basketball t...