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College basketball suffered through a full-fledged existential crisis this season, where art collided with science. If one thing is certain, however, it's that the game has cornered the market on crazy and this field of 68 is no exception.

Selection Sunday is finally (mercifully) here. The NCAA tournament bracket has been unveiled. Let's assess the field.

It's been almost a full calendar year since we turned our focus to the 2009-10 hoops season. We met the recruits. We greeted the veterans. We saw them play through five months of college basketball, from Midnight to March Madness. We laughed. We crie...

The Final Four has plenty of personal dramas, but Eamonn Brennan can't wait for the business at hand. He's ready for the two games to determine which team will take the national championship.

College basketball differs from the pro game in innumerable ways, so for now let's just focus on one: the importance of stars. In the NBA, especially in the postseason, star power is everything; you can't win a title without at least two All-Stars...

Fab Melo, the Syracuse center and current NBA draft prospect, famously missed the 2012 NCAA tournament thanks to academic suspension. Given the amount of resources and effort devoted to making sure Syracuse basketball players like Melo are able to be...

Whether it's the NBA or a one-year suspension, the end result is the same: Maryland has lost guard Terrell Stoglin for the 2012-13 season, and that's a huge blow to its chances of reaching the NCAA tournament in coach Mark Turgeon's second season. ...

I love Quora. With the possible exception of Twitter, it is my favorite social network/Web 2.0 thingamajig, primarily because it's so smart. Tech nerds and early adopters parry thoughtful questions and legitimate answers while I sit back, follow hobb...

Eamonn Brennan takes an in-depth look at all of Kentucky's key players as it aims for the 2012 national title.

ESPN.com's Eamonn Brennan spoke with NCAA president Mark Emmert in Phoenix last week about a wide range of topics, including compensating student-athletes and the APR appeals process. It seems like this, and other stuff you've done -- I know you ...

No wonder Gorgui Dieng laughs. If you saw this strange American world through the eyes of Louisville's Senegalese-born center, you'd be laughing, too.

PHOENIX -- There is nowhere to hide. There are no secrets to keep and no shocking, revolutionary game plans to unveil. With Louisville and Florida, this would also be the case in November: Is there a high-profile coaching duo as familiar with one ...

Maybe we should have known: Thursday was mundane, but the basketball gods would repay us. We were due. But who could have predicted this?

Today, Beyond the Arc's Troy Machir took a survey of some of the nation's best teams, and some of the nation's most "clutch" players, and asked the above headline's first question. Final possession. Game on the line. Who gets the final shot? It's ...

For as long as the NCAA tournament is played, viewers will see his famous buzzer-beater. But for Bryce Drew, there are no more shots to take. It's now time to take over the family business.

On March 19, a day before his team's second-round NCAA tournament loss to Arizona, Texas forward Tristan Thompson made a bold but apparently assured statement to reporters, including our own Pat Forde: "I'm coming back another year," Thompson said r...