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The Champions Classic, a two-game, one-night November event conjured up two years ago, was pretty much always guaranteed to be a success. Indeed, it was just what the sport needed -- a big, marquee event featuring four of the game's best programs and...

New week, new Big Ten power rankings, new No. 1. Let's dig right in: 1. Michigan: Indiana's loss to Butler Saturday -- and the fashion in which it came -- prompted some legitimate near-term questions for the Hoosiers. But it's not like Michigan on...

The visit to Duke wasn't great and the other schools on the list all had their advantages. But in the end, mega-recruit Jabari Parker just coudn't turn down the chance to play for a legend.

Thursday afternoon, the No. 2-ranked player in the class of 2013 will announce his collegiate decision on ESPNU. Jabari Parker's high school career has been illustrious, and he's long since gotten that Sports Illustrated cover out of the way. But his...

When you are as good at basketball as Jabari Parker is -- when you've got three state titles and a Gatorade National Player of the Year award before your senior season, and you've been on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline "The best hi...

When Chicago native Jabari Parker, the top player in the class of 2013 and already a Sports Illustrated cover boy, announced his list of five remaining potential collegiate destinations, Kentucky wasn't on that list. That was surprising to me, if onl...

On Saturday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints made a rather momentous announcement: Going forward, the minimum age requirement for church members' missions would be lowered. The new rule will allow men to take their missions at age 18,...

In July, Jabari Parker -- top recruit in the class of 2013, Sports Illustrated cover boy, and a prospect talented and academically capable enough that he could pick just about any school in the country -- didn't seem all that eager to narrow his deci...

Whether it's NBA scouts looking at college players, or college coaches and recruitniks watching prep stars, the appraisal of basketball talent remains a wholly imperfect science -- if it's even a science in the first place. There are so many variable...

One of the more fascinating things about the rise of recruiting rankings -- rankings which are hugely informative and helpful for fans and writers like yours truly -- is the seriousness with which the rankees take them. George Dohrmann's "Play The...

Since he was a freshman at Chicago's Simeon High School, every elite coach in the country has dreamed of landing Jabari Parker. Now three years (and then some) into his recruitment, Parker is still providing zero hints. On Wednesday, the No. 1-ran...

The new contact rules are here, and with them the implication that coaches will soon set out to overwhelm prep players with constant phone calls, text messages, Facebook pings, Twitter DMs, you name it. This doesn't seem like a sound strategy -- does...

When you're Jabari Parker, the best player in the class of 2013 -- and, according to the cover of Sports Illustrated, "the best high school basketball player since LeBron James" -- it's not easy to live a normal life. Not when college coaches are con...

Most every college hoops fan already knows about Jabari Parker, the No. 1-ranked player in the class of 2013. We are not strangers to his story: He is nearing the end of his junior year at Simeon High School in Chicago, Ill., the alma mater of Der...

Jabari Parker is the real deal. This spring, some buddies and I made a trip to DePaul's campus gym to see him play in a city tournament game for his storied high school program here in Chicago, Simeon High School, which also produced NBA MVP Derri...