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John Wooden was a college basketball coach widely considered to be one of the greatest coaches of all-time. During his career, he coached the UCLA Bruins to 10 NCAA national championships in a 12-year span....

Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) used by the NCAA to help choose at-large teams and determine seeds for the NCAA basketball tournament. Updated daily, exclusively for ESPN Insider....

The Big East/SEC Challenge is a college basketball event that matches up teams from the SEC against 12 of the 16 teams from the Big East. The inaugural event will take place Dec. 1-3, with all 12 games being televised on the ESPN family of networks....

On Monday, Michigan brass -- including president Mary Sue Coleman -- made it clear there was no intention to circle the wagons around the Fab Five, Michigan's legendary-in-its-own-way team that went to back-to-back Final Fours during its run in the e...

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...

Kentucky coach John Calipari didn't want to continue UK's longstanding rivalry with Indiana as a home-and-home series. Indiana coach Tom Crean didn't want to play on a neutral floor. Turns out, fans of both teams, and fans of college basketball in ge...

Jeff Withey set a record for blocks in a single NCAA tournament with 31 total in the 2012 edition of the Big Dance. He's returning for his senior year as a key leader for a Kansas team that lost lottery pick Thomas Robinson and talented veteran Tysha...

To go along with today's feature story on the return of the dominant shot-blockers, here's my list of the nation's best. If your favorite guy is missing from the list, let me know (@MedcalfByESPN or mmedcalf3030@gmail.com). But this is not just based...

Needless to say, by the time the news was announced Tuesday afternoon, this was not exactly the shock of the century. Early Tuesday morning, Mike Brey told our own Andy Katz that Notre Dame had agreed to extend its commitment to the Crossroads Cla...

Last season's NCAA tournament signalled a return to the days of dominant shot-blockers in college basketball. With several more on the way in the form of freshmen, the block might just be back.

1. The Big East and SEC are expected to finalize the pairings for their challenge sometime in the next two weeks. Any speculation (as I did last week) on the pairings is now moot as the conferences try to figure out arena openings and home/road setup...

If two teams play at Madison Square Garden and no one is there to witness it, did the games actually occur? That will be the quandary the Big East faces in 2014 if the league listens to the pleas of its basketball coaches and allows everyone into ...

The Afternoon Links are (intermittently) back, and they are exactly what they say they are. Some days will bring more than others. This is the offseason, after all. If you have a link you'd like included, your best bet is to hit me on Twitter. You ca...

Officials from Cincinnati and Xavier are not in an easy position. The great rivalry between Cincinnati's two basketball powers spun wildly out of control last season, when late-game trash talking by Xavier's Tu Holloway escalated an already ugly b...