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Player of the Night -- Daniel Mullings, New Mexico State New Mexico State halted Louisiana Tech's 18-game winning streak, handing the Bulldogs their first WAC loss. Daniel Mullings led the way with 23 points, eight rebounds, three assists and four...

Doug Gottlieb breaks down six freshman he sees as ready to take their game to another level in the second half of the season.

Blog | Conversation | January 27, 2012

Its embarrassing realignment game apparently wasn't enough for West Virginia, judging from the unseemly litigation it added to the mix. Plus, Michael Beasley's bizarre public disclosure.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley is accusing his former agent and an AAU coach of conspiring to forge a relationship with him from the age of 14 and giving his mother improper cash benefits while Beasley starred at Kansas State, all in an ef

Long Beach State has reached the championship game of the Big West tournament for the past two seasons. They lost both times and fell short of the NCAA tournament. Still, Casper Ware isn't looking back. "I can't cry about it or be sad about it," s...

Last week, Ken Pomeroy -- the man who runs the site that makes you at least 50 percent smarter about college basketball -- debuted his kPOY award tracking. You don't have to be an acronyms whiz to figure out kPOY is Ken's personal, tempo-free-based p...

1. Jared Sullinger does his best Michael Beasley -- Sullinger's 40-point performance in Ohio State's 75-64 win against IUPUI made all sorts of history. Most notably, he broke Michael Redd's 13-year-old OSU freshman scoring record of 30. It was just t...

The popularity of the beard of Kansas State star guard Jacob Pullen has already reached epic proportions, and even though his mother would rather he shave it off, there are hundreds of people who just go crazy over one of college basketball's most no...

You can be forgiven if that headline makes you cringe. After all, if you're a young player on the cusp of entering the NBA, the last person you probably want to take life advice from is former Kansas State one-and-done star Michael Beasley. K-State f...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Butler hasn't had an NBA lottery pick like former Kansas State star Michael Beasley. Bulldogs coach Brad Stevens knows his chances of having players like Wildcats guards Denis Clemente and Jacob Pullen are remote at best. But ...

Monday night should have been Frank Martin's night. His tenure at Kansas State has been fraught with doubters who thought he wasn't cut out to handle the gig, that he was just a Michael Beasley-involved holdover. Not so: Martin has built K-State into...

Five things to know from Monday's action: Kansas State knocked off the top team in the land despite a poor shooting performance. The Wildcats beat Texas 71-62 despite a 38.5 field goal percentage, going 1-for-12 from 3-point range and shooting 62...

When Kansas State promoted Frank Martin, the skeptics were numerous. Hired just to keep Michael Beasley and Bill Walker, the chorus went. Two postseasons and the highest ranking in two decades later, the chorus needs a new line.

Fans of college basketball have gotten a chance to see some pretty spectacular performances by some pretty special players over the past few years. Michael Beasley and Kevin Durant come to mind. As does Derrick Rose, who was physically and athletical...

Blog | Conversation | December 15, 2009

The University of Kansas' past two national championship teams had staff members who were the fathers of players Danny Manning and Mario Chalmers. Washington, D.C., native Dalonte Hill initially went to Kansas State in advance of Michael Beasley, bu...

Denis Clemente tied a Big 12 record with 44 points, leading Kansas State to an 85-81 overtime upset of Texas (No. 11 ESPN/USA Today, No. 12 AP) on Saturday, ending the Longhorns' 19-game home winning streak.