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Eamonn Brennan examines how landing top recruit Andrew Wiggins would impact North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas and Florida State.

In case you missed it -- or, as we say on Twitter, "ICYMI" -- Monday brought the third annual edition of the College Basketball Production-Only Mock Draft, which has an entirely silly name but is nonetheless a yearly treat to write. It tries to gauge...

When North Carolina guard Kendall Marshall fractured his wrist in Sunday's win against Creighton, it was momentarily easy to forget Marshall isn't the most talented or productive player on his team. There's Tyler Zeller and Harrison Barnes and John H...

Kendall Marshall's status is unknown, but his importance to North Carolina's national-title hopes is not.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Well, well, well. Some quick, pertinent details from Duke's buzzer-beating 85-84 win over hated rival North Carolina after a 10-point rally in the final two minutes ... Overview: Getting into a run-and-gun game with North Caro...

This offseason, anytime someone asked North Carolina forward (and future NBA lottery pick, and prospective player of the year candidate, and potential 2011-12 national title contender) Harrison Barnes what about his game he was working on, the answer...

"Let's run that back." At the gym, that's all it would take. Both teams would grab a drink of water, check the ball up top, and begin again. Unfortunately, college basketball doesn't work that way. Alas, we won't get an immediate rematch of the...

The Morning After is our semi-daily recap of last night's best basketball action. It didn't sleep well last night, and it asks your preemtpive forgiveness for any typos or dumb mistakes. It will definitely try to take a nap before it watches The Thro...

Voting for college basketball's preseason All-American team has become a tricky enterprise. In the one-and-done era, at least one or two highly touted freshmen live up to their billing and dominate the scene every year. That trend led the nation's wr...

Back in April, yours truly was mighty impressed with the North Carolina Tar Heels' budding outdoor campus pickup tradition, which our buddy Ben Cohen at the Wall Street Journal captured with a fun little feature piece at the time. The Tar Heels would...

For the next month or so, our friends at The Mag are previewing one high-profile school per day for their Summer Buzz series. For the sake of all that is synergistic, yours truly will be attempting the same, complementing each comprehensive Insider p...

For the second straight year, the nation's most-hyped recruit is headed to Tobacco Road. What can Duke's Austin Rivers learn from the freshman season of UNC's Harrison Barnes?

On Sunday, the USA Basketball finished an ignominious run in the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championships with another shaky result: Thanks to a tip-in in the final minute by Connecticut small forward Jeremy Lamb, the U.S. survived Australia -- yes, Au...

College hoops fans already know the 2012 draft class is going to be a good one. That's what happens when players like Harrison Barnes, Perry Jones, Jared Sullinger and Terrence Jones -- all lottery picks and potential top-five talents -- all decide t...

Last week, the college hoops blog world was semi-abuzz with the news that North Carolina sophomore Harrison Barnes -- the much-hyped forward who slowly but surely lived up to billing as a freshman last season -- would receive a tidy little exemption ...

With Penn State's hire of Pat Chambers and Tennessee's impending date with the Committee on Infractions this weekend, it seems we've officially, finally moved past the first phase of the offseason -- defined by draft decisions and coaching changes --...