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It is officially the time of year when my friends and family ask me for bracket advice. And why not? They know someone who follows this stuff year-round, and could possibly give them an advantage in the office pool, and I am happy to provide whatever...

Honestly, it's like some people can skip an entire decade. It's like some people went straight from the "aww, what a nice run, Gonzaga sure is cute" Cinderella attitude of 1999 to "wait, Gonzaga is going to be No. 1 seed?" It's like this weird swa...

College hoops polls might be inconsequential noise, but that doesn't make the arguments any less fun. In that spirit, I present the creatively named Poll Thoughts, which you can expect every Monday until the season is over. The polls don't matter....

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It lives in fear of medical bills. No. 3 Duke at Virginia, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN Virginia might be the most underrated team in the country, at least by the one system more imp...

At 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU unveiled the 2012-13 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Presented by Wendy's (a sponsorship I have no problem citing, because I love me a good spicy chicken sandwich) and, by and large, the list was about what you'd expect. This ...

Here are yours truly's 10 big thoughts from the first January hoops Saturday of the year: 1. C.J. McCollum's injury looks like a real bummer. Before we eulogize McCollum's season, it's important to note that we don't know exactly what injury cause...

In the buildup to Midnight Madness, ESPN Insider and our college hoops team are collaborating on a preview of one high-profile college hoops team per day -- based on Joe Lunardi's top 20 teams in his offseason Bracketology. We're calling it "Countdow...

Editor's note: ESPN.com's Summer Shootaround series catches up on the offseason storylines for each conference. For more on the WCC, click here. The most important player for each team in the conference ... BYU: Matt Carlino The former UCLA tr...

Editor's note: ESPN.com's Summer Shootaround series catches up on the offseason storylines for each conference. For more on the West Coast Conference, click here. Five offseason storylines in the WCC... Gonzaga never truly left ... but boy is it ...

As part of our Summer Shootaround series, here are the best- and worst-case scenarios for the West Coast Conference: Brigham Young Best-case: Losing your two most experienced and offensively accurate players is never a good thing, but there's p...

This morning, my colleague Fran Fraschilla listed his five under-the-radar teams ready to break out in 2012-13. So today's Top 10 Thursday feature is a quick look at a batch of players who could enjoy a similar trajectory -- players who haven't broke...

Have you caught your breath yet? Me neither. But the glorious first weekend of the NCAA tournament rolls on undaunted, and so must we. Thirty-two teams remain. By the end of tomorrow, there can be only 16. You know the math. And since you know the...

This Saturday was always going to be a bit more underwhelming than recent weeks, but boy, did it end well. Once it ended, that is. Creighton students rushed the court before the game was officially over. Their reverse storm, in which they calmly walk...

The Morning After is our semi-daily recap of last night's best basketball action. It is glad to be back in the blogging saddle after this week's trip to ESPNU's The Experts, not to mention an insane stopover in Chapel Hill, but it feels like it hasn'...

Newsflash! Alert! Somewhat obvious but nonetheless worthwhile information incoming! Ready? The Saint Mary's Gaels are really good at scoring basketball points. There. Now you know. Of course, you could have received this information by staying up ...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It does not know how hard being Snoop D-O-double-G really is. Still relatively dramatic, it seems. No. 17 Virginia at No. 6 Duke, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN: The ESPN Stats and Infor...