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1. Kentucky coach John Calipari took a brief break from coaching the Dominican National team to come home to Lexington and work out with his newcomers under the new NCAA rule allowing summer workouts if players are in school. It might as well be spri...

Hall of Fame and three-time national champion coach Jim Calhoun will face his toughest on-court challenge yet, trying to motivate UConn without the opportunity of playing in the postseason in 2013. The NCAA officially informed the Huskies on Thurs...

1. UConn officials are waiting to see if they will win a waiver to be eligible for the 2013 NCAA tournament. But sophomore Jeremy Lamb and freshman Andre Drummond probably will make up their minds before a decision is rendered. Nothing is official, b...

Connecticut should learn whether it's eligible to play in the 2013 NCAA tournament within a week to 10 days, according to NCAA president Mark Emmert.

1. The departure of UConn junior forward Alex Oriakhi is not a surprise. The Huskies may not win the appeal to play in the 2013 NCAA tournament. The UConn staff expects freshman Andre Drummond and sophomore Jeremy Lamb to decide here soon about decla...

NEW YORK -- A first-round Big East tournament win against DePaul shouldn't change anyone's mind about Connecticut. It was, after all, DePaul, the No. 16 seed in the Big East tournament. But there was something different about the Huskies on Tue...

Editor's note: Jay Bilas breaks down Missouri-Kansas in today's Weekend Watch. Andy Katz offers a dozen more games to keep an eye on this weekend. Friday Marquette at West Virginia (9 ET, ESPN): West Virginia has to win this game, right? The M...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom are Marquette's two best players and they were at it again Saturday in the Golden Eagles' 79-64 win at Connecticut. Crowder scored 29 points and grabbed 12 boards, while Johnson-Odom scored 24 and...

For full coverage of the Michigan State-Ohio State matchup, click here. Friday Iona at Loyola (ESPNU, 7 p.m. ET): Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos was peeved that his squad was left out of the TV BracketBusters games. Well, this one is on TV and it's ...

STORRS, Conn. -- The basic goal for Connecticut and Harvard is the same: win a championship. The Huskies are angling toward the title that is handed out in New Orleans the first week of April. Harvard simply wants to claim the Ivy League champions...

1. Air Force's flirtation with taking its football to the Big East and placing the rest of its other sports in another conference sounds easy enough. The hodge-podge WAC with Denver as a new member in 2012 makes sense for an AFA home. But why w...

When Connecticut got word that mega-recruit Andre Drummond was willing to enroll for this season instead of next, there were a few options for the Huskies in order to open up a scholarship. The obvious one was someone leaving the team, even if tha...

ESPN.com has learned through a source that Connecticut Huskies coach Jim Calhoun, interim athletic director Paul Pendergast, UConn president Susan Herbst and at least one member of the compliance department met Friday to ensure that it was possible t...

Quick hitters for Monday: • The speculation about whether 6-foot-10 Andre Drummond, the No. 1 player in 2012 (currently at St. Thomas More School in Middletown, Conn.), could end up playing in the fall at UConn is over. It's not happening. Acc...