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For these 10, season offers chance to 'prove it'

Jay Bilas

...an NCAA tournament team and beat somebody once it gets there. Yancy Gates, Cincinnati: Gates has an NFL body and very few defenders have the guts to stand in his way. If he plays with...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 06, 2009

Who stood out at the LeBron Academy?

Jay Bilas, ESPN.com

Jay Bilas worked closely with 20 of the top college players and 40 of the top high school players at the LeBron James Skills Academy. Which ones stood out the most to him?

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | July 14, 2009

Wait a minute -- that congressman said what?

Jay Bilas

...If Cohen is likening basketball to slavery, what is football like? A gulag? Remember, Rep. Cohen, the NFL and your home-state Titans require a football prospect to be three years removed from high school...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 16, 2009

Evaluating the draft process and other musings

Jay Bilas

...draft with no earthly intention of staying in. It is ridiculous. • Why is it that the NFL can effectively make players stay in college for three years before being eligible for the NFL draft...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 07, 2009

A few answers for Sonny Vaccaro

Jay Bilas, ESPN.com

It's not a matter of whether Jeremy Tyler has the right to drop out of high school. It's a matter of whether it's the right thing to do. By taking on many of the assertions made by advisor Sonny Vaccaro, Jay Bilas draws his own conclusion.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 06, 2009

Making sense of draft process

Jay Bilas

I have never been a big fan of the "test the waters" rule that the NCAA set forth several years ago in which college underclassmen can declare for the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 23, 2009

No to expansion, yes to quality

Jay Bilas

...same that you have heard with regard to the wild card in Major League Baseball and the NFL. Expansion dilutes the field and renders the regular season and conference tournaments less meaningful and less compelling...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2009

Need to enforce sportsmanship rules

Jay Bilas, ESPN.com

Is sportsmanship lacking in today's game? We have seen plenty of instances in which that's the case, and college basketball needs to pay attention.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | February 12, 2009

Thank goodness college hoops decides its champion on the court and not in the polls

Jay Bilas

Nothing generates more discussion, frustration and anger than a Top 25 poll. Everybody with a pen has a power ranking or poll, but there is very littl...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 13, 2009

How does one define toughness in basketball?

Jay Bilas

...talking about Chuck Norris toughness? Do they mean Jack Youngblood playing on a broken leg in the NFL playoffs? Are they referring to Ronnie Lott having his finger amputated so he could play a football...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | January 08, 2009

Good mids deserve kudos, but don't equal parity

Jay Bilas, ESPN.com

Jay Bilas sees good teams everywhere, but doesn't believe true parity exists. He provides a conference-by-conference breakdown to prove his point.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | December 18, 2006

Sooners must turn game into a grind

Jay Bilas, Special to ESPN.com

Jay Bilas breaks down Texas-Oklahoma.

Story | Conversation | January 27, 2006

NCAA needs to rethink some things

Jay Bilas, ESPN Insider

Adding an "official" start date to the season is just one of the changes I'd make to help improve college basketball.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 16, 2004

More than Four success stories

Jay Bilas, Special to ESPN.com

Fair or not, the public sees 60 teams who failed and only the Final Four as winners.

Story | Conversation | March 29, 2004

Reaching into the Bilas mailbag

Jay Bilas, Special to ESPN.com

ESPN's Jay Bilas answers a few questions each week from ESPN.com users.

Story | Conversation | February 02, 2004