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These days, college basketball has a flurry of early season events; it's not just Maui anymore. There are aircraft carriers and U.S. Army bases and the Champions Classic and the ESPN Tip-Off Marathon and the Battle 4 Atlantis and whatever else Michig...

You don't know how it happens. I never do. You blink once and it's mid-November and we're guzzling from the firehose that is the Tip-Off Marathon, finally and mercifully -- after a brutal offseason of recruiting news and realignment rumors and coache...

Notre Dame's five-overtime victory over Louisville included many of the elements that are wrong about college basketball. But in the end, the game also was a reminder of basketball's magical possibilities.

In lieu of four or five small blog posts -- and before we move on to Night 2 of the marathon -- here are a few random thoughts left over from my delirious viewing of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, Night 1: I still think NC State is overrated, but at ...

The other day, in the midst of the Tip-Off Marathon madness, my buddy emailed me with a screengrab from this ESPN Media Zone schedule. He pointed to Monday's Legends Classic opener, Indiana vs. Georgia, and the announcing team scheduled to call the g...

Saddle Up is our semidaily preview of the night's best basketball action. Its circadian rhythm is going to be off for a little while. No. 22 Wisconsin at No. 10 Florida, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN2: The Tip-Off Marathon is over, and the natural inclination i...

Eamonn Brennan previews some of the featured games in the Tip-Off Marathon -- including Michigan State-Kansas and Kentucky-Duke -- and picks winners.

For the college basketball fan, there aren't many glorious July days, but this one definitely counts: the release of the 2012 ESPN Tip-Off Marathon schedule, set to take place for all 24 hours (and then some) on Tuesday, Nov. 13. I think you're going...

We're officially past the ESPN College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon, both on the schedule and -- more importantly -- in body, mind and spirit. (I think I'm finally recovered. Phew.) But the hoops doesn't slow down all that much in the next few days: Tonigh...

You know that whole "being impressed with Kentucky" thing we talked about in the post-Marathon hangover phase Wednesday? And how it was pretty hard not to be impressed with Kentucky -- unless, of course, you had a vested interest in that worldview, i...

Every week, your humble college basketball hoops blogger (er, me) will respond to your questions, comments and nonsensical rants in this here Hoopsbag. To submit a query, visit this page by clicking the link under my name in the upper right-hand corn...

Eamonn Brennan takes a game-by-game look at ESPN's College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon.

9:30 p.m. ET: Belmont at No. 23 Tennessee (ESPNU) -- This is where we separate the men from the boys. (And the women from the girls. Or the adults from the children. Or the ... well, you get the point.) By now, if you've been with the marathon for...

6 p.m. ET: No. 5 Ohio State at No. 10 Florida (ESPN/ESPN3) -- With the possible exception of Virginia Tech-Kansas State, this, my friends, is the game of your marathon. Florida, the media's preseason pick to win the SEC, is back in the national conve...

This is where I was going to write the lyrics to "Afternoon Delight," but then I actually listened to "Afternoon Delight" again and, well, wow. According to Wikipedia, that song not only was on the radio in 1976 but was a No. 1 single. What were you ...

Eamonn Brennan previews the next set of the games -- the ones that will be getting you through the morning:...