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Doug Gottlieb evaluates five teams that are strong candidates to have breakout seasons in 2011-12, including Baylor, FSU and Cal.

Blog | Conversation | October 18, 2011

While UNC is widely considered the favorite to win the ACC and most assume Duke will be close behind, don't count out the Florida State Seminoles.

Blog | Conversation | August 02, 2011

Doug Gottlieb

Blog | Conversation | January 15, 2011

Doug Gottlieb ranks each of the major conferences, evaluating every team. The results? Duke, Ohio State, Kansas and Pittsburgh are sitting pretty.

Blog | Conversation | January 01, 2011

Doug Gottlieb recaps the Diamond Head Classic with notes on Butler, Washington State, Florida State, Baylor, Hawaii, Mississippi State, San Diego and Utah.

Blog | Conversation | December 27, 2010

A common notion is that teams should somehow be compared to previous league champions in order to judge their true worth. How dumb. Conference champions must only be better than their league opponents in that one particular season, not any other. ...

Blog | Conversation | October 19, 2010

With the seemingly blank canvas that many young draft prospects present to NBA teams, the pre-draft workouts and the "combine" in Chicago often offer coaches and front office people a different perspective. All that sounds great as players get a chan...

Blog | Conversation | May 04, 2010

It's that time of year when college players announce their intentions to stay in school or head to the NBA. Underclassmen should be wary, though: The road to NBA riches is paved with bad decisions.

Story | Conversation | April 30, 2010

The report card is out, and Doug Gottlieb has the final grades for some of the best mid- and high majors and the schools from the top six conferences.

Story | Conversation | April 09, 2010

Upon reading Dick Vitale's Top 40, I started to think about the massive group in the middle of the college basketball world that feels forever disrespected by not being on such a list. Not that whining gets you anywhere in life; it's just that once y...

Blog | Conversation | August 11, 2009

When a program consistently underachieves over time, you might want to look deeper than just whether the coaches are doing their job, writes Doug Gottlieb.

Story | Conversation | May 10, 2007

Doug Gottlieb looks at three teams that can decide their own bubble fates this week with wins over potential No. 1 seeds.

Story | Conversation | March 01, 2006

Florida State and Texas A&M chose a good time to upset two of the nation's top teams. Though Wednesday's triumphs over No. 1 Duke and No. 7 Texas were the first quality wins for both teams this season, it should still be enough to get them into the Big Dance, writes Doug Gottlieb.