SEC ShootAround: Baby Gators all grown up?

Andy Lyons/Getty Images The 2007-08 season was a frustrating one for Billy Donovan and the young Gators. Growing pains mean new gains for Gato...

Pac-10 ShootAround: Talent drain or potential refill in 2008-09?

Getty Images Three Pac-10 freshmen took their games to the NBA after one season. Talent goes, talent comes By Ted Miller ESPN.com It's not ...

Big 12 ShootAround: What can KU do for an encore?

Bob Donnan/US Presswire Bill Self knows the upcoming season will be a "huge rebuilding job" with seven newcomers. Self ready for a 'huge rebui...

Friends of Bayno hope to see coach return soon

Bill Bayno's close coaching friends are concerned about his health. Bayno, in his first season at Loyola Marymount, took an abrupt leave of absen...

Hummel's 20 points, 11 rebounds carry Purdue over Coppin State

Robbie Hummel had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Purdue beat Coppin State 66-46 on Saturday night.

Griffin has career highs, Oklahoma escapes upset-minded Gardner-Webb

Blake Griffin had career highs of 35 points and 21 rebounds, and No. 12 Oklahoma needed just about all of them in holding off Gardner-Webb 80-76 on Saturday.

Win over UCLA helps Michigan's mindset on and off court

Michigan's 55-52 win over No. 4 UCLA on Thursday night may have given a reprieve, for two hours at least, to a Wolverine State that has been gripped by melancholy of late, writes Andy Katz.

Seton Hall flips the script in pulling shocker over USC

Undermanned yet undeterred, Seton Hall took its street-fight mentality and pulled off a big upset by sending No. 20 USC into the consolation round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, writes Dana O'Neil.

Ten Texas Tech players score in double figures in big win

Trevor Cook scored a career-high 20 points as Texas Tech defeated East Central 167-116 Thursday night in the Legends Classic.

...leaps to avoid Michigan State defender Ryan Allison (42) during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, in East Lansing, Mich

Houston, Arlington among cities awarded upcoming Final Fours

he NCAA says the men's basketball Final Four will be played at the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington in 2014.

No. 13 Vols get big performance from backup Williams in record-setting win

Reserve forward Brian Williams scored a career-high 21 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Tennessee beat Tennessee-Martin 91-64 on Tuesday night.

Kellogg returns to his roots in effort to lift UMass

Derek Kellogg is a UMass guy. He's from the area, played basketball there and spent the past eight years assisting his former UMass coach John Calipari at Memphis. Now Kellogg wants to bring the Minutemen back into national prominence, writes Andy Katz.

...ball he fumbled against Maryland linebacker Adrian Moten (54) during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, in College Park, Md. Moten recovered the fumble

USC anxiously waits on Stepheson

• North Carolina transfer center Alex Stepheson won't play for USC against UC Irvine on Saturday, but the hope is that a decision on his appeal ...