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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 ...

We have been told for nearly a year now that university presidents and chancellors, conference commissioners and athletic directors are altruistic do-gooders and that their every decision is for the "betterment of the student-athlete." Asking a cr...

Editor's note: Each week, ESPN.com writers will debate a topic of interest in the college basketball landscape. Today's topic: Which teams made the best coaching hires? Dana O'Neil: Illinois' John Groce He wasn't the first choice. He might not ...

Conference raiding is only nasty business when you are being raided, not when you're doing the raiding. This is where we are today: The mid-majors are now players. For better. And for worse.

Realignment remains football-centric, but now we're seeing an inevitable trickle down of the shifting landscape to second-tier basketball conferences. How are these leagues responding to the latest wave of realignment talk?

A few years ago, I took a road trip with the Alcorn State basketball team to see how the other half of Division I lives. It wasn't pretty. Old shoes, team meals in mall food courts and student athletic trainers who weren't even CPR certified, the ...

Editor's note: Each week, ESPN.com writers will debate a topic of interest in the college basketball landscape. Today's topic: Which teams are garnering too much (and possibly unwarranted) preseason buzz? Which teams aren't receiving enough? Eamon...

When the Big East needed a vision for the future, it reached back into its past. The reasons for John Marinatto's failure as league commissioner are many, but they all lead back to a fundamental and still unanswered question: What exactly is the Big East?

Friendships and mentoring aren't dead in the coaching profession. Not by a long shot. But thanks to a win-at-all-costs mentality, it's not so easy to be friendly with other coaches anymore. There's just too much at stake.

Welcome to SportsNation! On Thursday, ESPN.com basketball writer Dana O'Neil stops by to chat some college basketball.O'Neil joined ESPN in 2008 after working for the Philadelphia Daily News.Send your questions now and join O'Neil Thursday at 3 p.m. ...

It was a longshot all along. Everyone knew that -- from Mike Brey to Tim Abromaitis himself. The Notre Dame forward rolled the dice anyway, hoping that the NCAA would reward him with a sixth year of eligibility, restoring the season an ACL injury den...

Penn State basketball has always needed football. Men's hoops coach Patrick Chambers knows this. What's different now? Football, with new Nittany Lions coach Bill O'Brien at the helm, needs basketball, field hockey and just about everything else more than ever.

Gettysburg's Cory Weissman's beat the odds after suffering a stroke, and now he finds himself inspiring others to do the same.

First things first. I thought my colleague (slash-friend-slash-life coach) Dana O'Neil nailed it in her reaction to the Seth Greenberg Virginia Tech story Monday evening. Her read on Greenberg's firing makes perfect sense to me. It wasn't pretty, but...

The timing wasn't perfect, and it may not have been fair, but in deciding to part ways with Seth Greenberg after nine seasons, at least Virginia Tech was honest.

The most telling statement of Virginia Tech's unexpected press conference on Monday was also the most disingenuous. Asked what a new coach could do to better foster the family environment Seth Greenberg's staff apparently lacked, athletic director...