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1. Texas lost 18 games last season. The Longhorns won seven in the Big 12 and were shut out of the NCAA tournament for the first time since head coach Rick Barnes arrived in 1998. Sheldon McClellan and Julien Lewis were third and fourth, respectively...

1. Syracuse wasn't the only newcomer the ACC took care of in scheduling. Notre Dame has a tremendous first-year schedule in the league with home games against North Carolina and Duke. Three Big Ten nonconference games are also on Mike Brey's daunting...

1. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said Thursday on our ESPNU College Basketball podcast that underclassmen should be able to work out for NBA teams before making a decision on whether to remain in the draft. That was the rule before the change by the...

1. The NCAA's random date of April 16 to declare for the NBA draft isn't pressuring a number of players into making quick decisions. Coaches are now savvy to the date as being meaningless. That's why Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk may wait to decide until th...

The Big Ten dominated the 10-member John R. Wooden All-American team with four players.

1. UCLA, USC and Minnesota are finding out what Oregon and others have discovered in how difficult it is to extract coaches from good situations. On the surface the jobs are perceived as better jobs than what some of these coaches currently have, but...

Gonzaga assistant Ray Giacoletti was named the new coach at Drake on Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana Hoosiers coach Tom Crean and Gonzaga Bulldogs coach Mark Few made their cases early Sunday why they should be No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament based on the consistency and strength of their teams' regular-season work. Cre...

The race for the Wooden Player of the Year award is probably as wide open as it has ever been heading into the final weekend of the regular season and conference tournament.

1. Gonzaga will be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, barring something odd occurring in the next week. That will be the highest the Zags have been seeded in the NCAA tournament. Gonzaga's NCAA run since the 1999 Elite Eight should be applauded not...

1. Gonzaga coach Mark Few said on the ESPNU college basketball podcast that Florida coach Billy Donovan called him the day after the Zags lost to Butler. He told Few to tell his team "make sure Butler doesn't beat you twice." It was good advice. Gonz...

1. Ole Miss spent Wednesday dealing with a double dose of bad news. The Rebels were still stunned over Nerlens Noel's dominating 12-block performance for Kentucky in a humbling 87-74 home defeat by the Wildcats. Then came word that forward Aaron Jone...

1. There is still hope among the new alignment moves to create or enhance rivalries. If Virginia Commonwealth and Richmond stay in the Atlantic 10 for the foreseeable future, this city rivalry could become one of the marquee events in the conference....

Andy Katz offers his Monday musings on Gonzaga-Butler, Syracuse-Louisville and many other topics from a wild weekend in college hoops.

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. The NCAA selection committee met in Grapevine, Texas, at the NCAA convention Wednesday and had to come up with some quirky new rules for the selection-committee chair after Xavier athletic director Mike Bobinski announced he is leaving for the sam...