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Kentucky doesn't have to be as deep, talented or efficient as last season's team. So don't bother comparing the two. Or the year before that, or the year prior under John Calipari. The rest of the country isn't comparable, either. There are no dom...

1. The No. 1 debate will rage on for weeks since I fully expect a changing of the guard at the top over the next two months. I was most impressed with Michigan this past week and went with the Wolverines. But I wouldn't be against Kansas or Syracuse ...

1. This had the potential of being a disastrous injury week to potential championship teams in Florida, Duke, Missouri and Louisville. But by Thursday morning, Duke is the one team that could be the most affected. Florida's Erik Murphy returned after...

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan isn't disguising the issues facing the SEC after a subpar non-conference season. The SEC has only two teams in the top 50 in the RPI (Florida, at 10, and Missouri, at 25) -- and four teams below 200. "What you do in Nov...

Florida guard Kenny Boynton put in plainly: Anything less than a Final Four for the Gators, and this season will be a failure, writes Andy Katz.

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan is worried about the extent of the rib injury to senior forward Erik Murphy, which kept the Gators' second-leading scorer out of Sunday night's game at Yale. Murphy first suffered the injury in a win over Air Force on D...

Georgetown and Florida will not resume playing their postponed Nov. 9 opener because a new date could not be agreed upon, a Georgetown spokesperson told ESPN.com Wednesday.

1. Florida coach Billy Donovan would like to play the second half of the Nov. 9 game against Georgetown that had to be canceled due to unfriendly conditions on a warship off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Florida officials said late Tuesday that the...

1. Leadership at point guard will determine a likely champion of a league and/or the nation. That's why it is disturbing that three schools are dealing with issues at the position. Michigan had to suspend Trey Burke. Texas isn't playing Myck Kabongo ...

Allan Chaney was incredibly nervous to play Mars Hill. This wasn't a game in the SEC, where he used to play for Florida. This wasn't Duke or North Carolina, the two schools he was hoping to go against when he made the decision to leave the Gators an...

1. Nike has special camouflage jerseys for the eight teams participating in the military-themed games on Nov. 9 just like it did last year for Michigan State and North Carolina in the Carrier Classic in San Diego. Michigan State's Draymond Green made...

ACC men's basketball coaches wanted the league to expand to an even 16 teams, but adding Notre Dame as the conference's 15th member significantly strengthens the ACC's basketball brand, says Andy Katz.

Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis told ESPN.com that he has secured commitments from 16 schools to participate in a two-tournament event in honor of Nike co-founder Phil Knight's 80th birthday.

1. UConn coach Jim Calhoun endorsed the hiring of Mike Aresco to be Big East commissioner. The main reason is that Aresco knows the television industry. "They made the hire they needed to make," said Calhoun of the conference. "He has to negotiate m...

Florida's Bradley Beal said the Thunder are among the teams that said they would try to move up to draft him.

Michigan State and Connecticut will play in a college basketball opener at an overseas military base on Nov. 9.