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This week, Indiana lost Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo to the NBA draft. This was not at all unexpected: Oladipo was basically a lock to leave after his remarkable junior season (his stock will never be higher), and it made nearly as much sense for Z...

College basketball differs from the pro game in innumerable ways, so for now let's just focus on one: the importance of stars. In the NBA, especially in the postseason, star power is everything; you can't win a title without at least two All-Stars...

DAYTON, Ohio -- On Sunday, it took until the final five minutes of Indiana's 58-53 third-round win over Temple, but it finally happened: Victor Oladipo and the Indiana Hoosiers decided they had seen about enough of the Khalif Wyatt Show. Can you ...

CHICAGO -- Quick reaction to Indiana's 80-64 win over Illinois on Friday. Overview: When Indiana's offense is clicking, when it is breaking opponents down with spacing and fluid ball movement, there is no more entertaining and (for opposing defens...

A handful of observations from IU-Michigan and the rest of Saturday night's college hoops action: Indiana and Michigan just played the best game of the year. No, it didn't end with a buzzer-beater finish. But that was the only thing it lacked. ...

At 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU unveiled the 2012-13 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Presented by Wendy's (a sponsorship I have no problem citing, because I love me a good spicy chicken sandwich) and, by and large, the list was about what you'd expect. This ...

College basketball predictions are a sucker's racket. Every spring, the sport undergoes massive turnover. Seniors graduate, a wave of players enter the draft, transfers transfer. But someone has to be No. 1 in the preseason, and someone has to be ...

New week, new Big Ten power rankings, new No. 1. Let's dig right in: 1. Michigan: Indiana's loss to Butler Saturday -- and the fashion in which it came -- prompted some legitimate near-term questions for the Hoosiers. But it's not like Michigan on...

Unlike shooting or rebounding or point guard play or the variety of other specific basketball skills we've been highlighting in our Best of the Best lists throughout this week, the category of "most important" is far trickier to quantify. It depends ...

One of the few things we college hoops fans can almost universally agree on about the 2012-13 season is how wide-open and unpredictable it stands to be. This is true of all college hoops seasons, more or less, but 2011-12 felt loaded at the top, far ...

(Speaking of Indiana, our news story about incoming freshman Ron Patterson's failure to meet the school's academic standards, thus forcing him to seek another four-year school or prep academy, is here.) In 2011-12, Cody Zeller helped lead a resurg...

As part of our Summer Shootaround series, here are the best- and worst-case scenarios for the Big Ten: Illinois Best-case: No one's expecting much from Illinois in 2012-13, and the reasons are obvious: With zero in the way of fresh blood enteri...

Cody Zeller seems like a pretty level-headed guy. He could have been a lottery pick this season, but he was having fun being in college -- how awesome would college be if you're Cody Zeller? -- so he decided to stay. It wouldn't be a total shock if h...

This morning, my man Myron Medcalf honed in on the Indiana Hoosiers. He spoke with coach Tom Crean about Cody Zeller's similarities to Andrew Luck -- which go deeper than "they're both really good" -- and the massive preseason expectations the Hoosie...

Cody Zeller and Christian Watford, two Indiana forwards instrumental in the Hoosiers' 2011-12 return to prominence, will return to school for the 2012-13 season.

Typically, a conference freshman of the year race is a pretty boring affair. Sometimes, it's academic. Often, it bears little relation to first-team all-conference honors or the overall player of the year discussion. And anyway, who really cares abou...