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If you live outside of the "big six" conferences, scheduling can be an often-frustrating game. But not at UNLV. The Runnin' Rebels, much like Xavier, Temple, Memphis, Gonzaga and Butler, can get quality nonconference matchups. Last season, UNLV had...

Dwyane Wade's relationship with IU coach Tom Crean is well-established. Crean coached Wade during his breakout seasons at Marquette from 2001 to 2003, the latter of which included a run to the Final Four and a junior season that established Wade as a...

New Jersey is hosting a draft combine Saturday and Sunday for mostly second-round and some possible first-round picks. Minnesota will host a similar event May 30-31 before the NBA takes over for the annual draft camp in Chicago June 6-8. Here are s...

Fran Fraschilla gives his take on how college basketball can fix its block/charge rule, which was improperly officiated often during the 2011-12 season.

Blog | Conversation | May 18, 2012

On this season of "Mad Men," Megan Draper decides to leave the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce offices to pursue her dream of acting despite her clear ease in the profession. Discussing the decision, Peggy, a former secretary whose success in the office...

Kentucky's title run altered the perception of freshmen teams. Granted, their ability to compete at the highest levels is not a new trend. Ask Magic. But until Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist anchored a young UK squad's national champions...

It was a while ago now, so you might have forgotten, but allow me to take you back to May 2011 2010, when the NCAA's new NBA draft decision deadline (which came even earlier on the calendar this spring) forced players to make their life-altering deci...

Oregon State put the full-court press on Victor Robbins as soon as Jared Cunningham declared for the NBA draft by the NCAA's April 10 deadline. The Beavers nabbed the 6-foot-6 forward from Compton, Calif., to give them a much-needed body up front wh...

Six weeks after his team finished a somewhat-surprising season with a march to the NCAA title game, Kansas coach Bill Self ducked out of Lawrence last weekend for a vacation with a couple of buddies. Destination: Cabo San Lucas. "It wasn't awfu...

When Kansas hired Andrea Hudy as its strength coach, the move was met with skepticism because of her gender. But if you ask the players and coaches now, they'll say Hudy is as big a part of the program's success as anyone.

The offseason is rough, but at least we have two things: 1. The NBA Playoffs. 2. Olympic basketball. I realize there are many college hoops fans who have no interest in the pro game, and while I don't understand you lot -- it's really good b...

Less than a week away from the first NBA draft workout in New Jersey, Chad Ford provides an updated list of players scheduled to attend and writes that although there aren't many top prospects, these workouts hold some value for NBA teams.

Blog | Conversation | May 14, 2012

Did Steve Kerr just spark serious progress on the NBA minimum age requirement? It certainly appears that way. On Tuesday, Grantland published Kerr's essay on the reasons why a change to the NBA's current rule, which has spawned the current one-and...

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...

The age limit feels like a topic immune to new, fresh perspectives. Writing on Grantland today, Steve Kerr -- whose post-column bio might be my favorite of all-time -- proves that notion a fallacy. Kerr's essay on the potential benefits of a 20-ye...

Fran Fraschilla offers an argument for picking Syracuse's Dion Waiters over UNC's Kendall Marshall.

Blog | Conversation | May 07, 2012