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As part of the NCAA's six-game suspension that started in March, Durand Scott was forced to sit out Miami's first three games of this season. Among those games: a stunning 63-51 loss at Florida Gulf Coast. Need any more evidence as to how valuable ...

Michigan State lost a tight game in its season opener to Connecticut on Friday. It was one that the Spartans were convinced they were going to win. So, what happened after the game? Did Tom Izzo and the players sit in the locker room and sulk? Har...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- The Connecticut players circled around Kevin Ollie and hugged him. Then, one by one, they ran over to congratulate their former coach, Jim Calhoun, who had watched his successor's debut, as a fill-in radio analyst. The...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- Kevin Ollie's voice was hoarse. But his energy was unchanged. Sitting in the stands was UConn athletic director Warde Manuel, getting a strong look at his new "head" coach, in whom he was so confident that he gave Oll...

LANDSTUHL, Germany -- 1st Sgt. Davidson Christmas sat up in his bed as Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and captains Derrick Nix and Russell Byrd walked into his hospital room, ecstatic that he had visitors, even for just a few minutes. Christmas was i...

Ramstein Air Base, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany -- From the moment he stepped onto the USS Carl Vinson last season to the second he stepped off, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo was in awe. He wanted to experience that feeling again. So when the call cam...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Tom Izzo didn't let up one bit in practice -- encouraging, yelling, constructively criticizing and pushing his players to be fundamentally sound and efficient on every possession. He can't let up. Not with this team. Not with ...

Michigan State and Connecticut will play in a college basketball opener at an overseas military base on Nov. 9.

Andy Katz takes a (very) early look at the top 25 for 2012-13.

The NCAA tournament selection committee stayed true to one facet of its new mantra: trying to keep teams in their region as much as possible.

Scandals don't discriminate. They can catch anybody in the sport, regardless of age, ethnicity or level of play. No one is immune. But for the sake of the coaching profession, and maybe for faith that there are real and genuine coaches in the sport...

College basketball could use a Heisman-like award, one main honor instead of the five mainstream national awards. The problem is that finding a consensus for the Wooden, Naismith, AP, Rupp and Oscar Robertson honors is no easy task. The awards vo...

Andy Katz has 20 questions to ponder as the fourth annual Tip-Off Marathon gets underway on ESPN.

Ohio State was tabbed as the consensus Big Ten favorite on media day Thursday in Chicago -- and the conference certainly plans to reward the Buckeyes early on in league play. Examine the conference schedules of the contenders and it's clear that, ba...

Tickets go on sale this week for the Champions Classic and it likely won't take long to sell out November's mega-event at Madison Square Garden. The Carrier Classic on 11-11-11, with top-ranked North Carolina playing Michigan State on the USS Carl V...

We asked rival coaches to assess each of the 50 players on the Wooden Award's preseason watch list.