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There was some very big news on the recruiting front Monday: Andrew Wiggins, the top prep player in a loaded 2014 class and by many accounts the best since Kevin Durant, announced the cancellation of his remaining home visits with North Carolina, Kan...

Here are a few things we learned from the biggest games Saturday afternoon. Check back later for analysis of tonight's games. No. 3 Ohio State 58, No. 20 Wisconsin 52: Ohio State is hardly a breakneck team, but its adjusted tempo this season is 68...

Last spring, as I attempted to make sense of Florida State's surprising run to the Sweet 16 and of the role of Leonard Hamilton's consistently brutal man-to-man defense, I spoke with the team's point guard, Derwin Kitchen. I asked him why his team wa...

This Saturday promised one of the best wall-to-wall slates of college hoops fixtures thus far this season, and the afternoon action didn't disappoint. In fact, it just about blew my mind. Let's take a comprehensive look at what we learned from said a...

Florida State owns the nation's best defense the past two seasons. What does Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton know that the rest of the country doesn't?

CHICAGO -- You can be forgiven if this game wasn't your cup of tea. You can understand why the average fan saw "No. 7 Texas A&M versus No. 10 Florida State" in the Southeast region of their bracket and said, "yeah, no thanks." Anyone who focused ...

CHICAGO -- You can be forgiven if this game wasn't your cup of tea. You can understand why the average fan saw "No. 7 Texas A&M versus No. 10 Florida State" in the Southeast region of their bracket and said, "yeah, no thanks." Anyone who focused ...

CHICAGO -- College hoops is notoriously hard to predict, but this game wasn't. It was going to be slow. It was going to be physical. It was going to be defensive. It was going to be ugly. Check, check, check and check. Florida State entered the...

CHICAGO -- College hoops is notoriously hard to predict, but this game wasn't. It was going to be slow. It was going to be physical. It was going to be defensive. It was going to be ugly. Check, check, check and check. Florida State entered the...

CHICAGO -- A look at the Texas A&M-Florida State matchup at the United Center: No. 7 seed Texas A&M (21-10) vs. No. 10 seed Florida State (24-8), 3:10 p.m. (TBS) How they got here: Somehow, it seems Mark Turgeon always finds a way. The Texa...

CHICAGO -- A look at the afternoon games being held here at the United Center: No. 15 seed Akron (23-12) vs. No. 2 seed Notre Dame (26-6), 1:40 p.m. ET (TBS) How they got here: Last time we saw Notre Dame in the tournament, the Irish, who strug...

So the ACC is down, based on preseason expectations, and the ACC's coaches are doing what all coaches do: Defending their conference. Much of this defense took place at ACC Media Day, when coaches took a break from praising Duke just long enough to t...