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The NBA draft combine and its various subsequent workouts don't mean a whole lot to the average college basketball fan, at least not at first glance. After all, now that players are forced to enter the draft in April and can't decide to come back to ...

How do we remedy the current ugliness of the college game? It's a question we've been asking for almost a year now, and it coursed through the ugly 2012-13 season's veins, particularly after a thrilling national final laid bare just how good the s...

People! I am now embarking on a cross-country four-NCAA-sites-in-five days multimedia cannonball run. Will be chatting at 11 ET tomorrow.- Eamonn Brennan (@eamonnbrennan) March 27, 2013 What if, beginning tomorrow and ending Sunday, you co...

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...

Honestly, I couldn't care less about college realignment right now, and not just because I'm burned out on the entire topic. I also really don't want to talk about college realignment because, frankly, there are more interesting things happening toda...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It is one of many several blog features you can look forward to on a regular basis now that COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS OFFICIALLY BACK THAT'S RIGHT SON WHAT!! Ahem. When colleg...

Which conferences rank as the nation's best heading into the 2012-13 season? What about the worst? Eamonn Brennan breaks down all 32 leagues.

We're just a few days from the start of the 2012-13 college hoops season -- it's all happening, you guys! -- so I whipped up a primer of 25 nonconference games you should watch between now and New Year's Eve. A sample: Aircraft carrier openers, Nov....

Starting Friday, the nonconference season is filled with great matchups. Here are 25 games you can't miss.

If you're a denizen of the college basketball Internet, there's a good chance you have already seen SI writer Luke Winn's epic rewind of the legendary 1990 LSU-Loyola game, "The Lost Art of Scoring." If you haven't, go read it now. It's very good. ...

When one asks of former college basketball players the question "Where are they now?" one never quite knows what one is going to get. In many cases, the answer is "Europe." Sometimes, it's a generalized "I think he's in the NBA." In the case of forme...

It was a while ago now, so you might have forgotten, but allow me to take you back to May 2011 2010, when the NCAA's new NBA draft decision deadline (which came even earlier on the calendar this spring) forced players to make their life-altering deci...

The removal of slippery decals from basketball courts -- something we can all agree on -- isn't the only recommendation the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees (MWBRC?) made to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP -- now there's a h...

The big college sports-related story of Monday morning is here: Big East commissioner John Marinatto has resigned from his post, according to an announcement by the league, a league that is now leaderless as it "works to find its footing amid a rapid...

PHOENIX -- The No. 7 seeds in the 2012 NCAA tournament were as follows: Notre Dame. Saint Mary's. Gonzaga. Florida. Sing it with me now: One of these things is not like the others. For starters, Florida was the only No. 7 seed to survive the...

On Monday night, the NCAA tournament became approximately 8,000 times more quotable. Why? Because Loyola (Maryland) topped Fairfield in the MAAC tournament title game, 48-44, reaching the tournament for the first time since now-deceased, beloved form...