Breaking down the one-and-doners

Welcome to our new NBA draft blog, in which Fran Fraschilla and I will keep you updated on everything draft related, all year long. From features on t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2009

The individual matchups I can't wait to see

...cannot wait to see this season: Willie Warren (Oklahoma) vs. Avery Bradley (Texas) Bradley comes to college...be "the game within the game" when the Sooners and the Longhorns hook up this season. This...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 08, 2009

Big 12 Preview

ESPNU previews the Big 12 season

Midnight madness: College hoops time in Texas

All the talk may focus on the Texas-Oklahoma football game, but college basketball teams around the...freshman since Tim McCalister in 1983-84. The Sooners will need him to be one of the...

Baylor tops Big 12 women's basketball poll

...109 points 2. Kansas (3): 106 2. Texas (3): 106 4. Texas A&M (1): 87 5. Oklahoma: 86 6. Nebraska: 80 7. Iowa State: 59 8. Kansas State: 44 9. Oklahoma State: 41 10...

Big 12 preseason hoops poll 1-2: Kansas, UT

...full list (first-place votes in parenthesis): 1. Kansas (11): 121 points 2. Texas (1): 111 3. Oklahoma: 95 4. Kansas State: 92 5. Texas A&M: 74 6. Oklahoma State: 69 7. Missouri: 66...

Big 12 preseason basketball accolades

...scored 19.1 points per game with 4.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.6 steals. * Oklahoma's Wille Warren, sophomore guard from Fort Worth's North Crowley, made the all-Big 12 preseason...

Big 12 ShootAround: High expectations for a league that retained its star power

...the NBA for an extra year. The same theory holds for the Big 12 this season. When Oklahoma's Willie Warren and Iowa State's Craig Brackins joined the Kansas inside-out combo in deciding...

Big 12 ShootAround: What can KU do for an encore?

Bob Donnan/US Presswire Bill Self knows the upcoming season will be a "huge rebuilding job" with seven newcomers. Self ready for a 'huge rebui...

Taking a red pen to my colleagues' rankings

My colleague Andy Katz came up with his revised top 25 this week, and then Doug Gottlieb countered with his own. Well, what do they know?! I'm kidding...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2009

Jayhawks the team to beat ... for now

There will be plenty of movement between now and November, but Kansas tops next season's initial Top 25.

Big Dance: Who takes the crown?

From Selection Sunday to the Coen brothers to the players under pressure, The Minutes -- Big Dance edition! -- runs through it all.

My new favorite (300 lb) player

Texas' Dexter Pittman looks like the next Kendrick Perkins, UConn took advantage of a bad rule and Blake Griffin shows that playing hard is a skill.

Story | Conversation | March 05, 2009

CAPTION: February 21, 2009; Austin, TX, USA; Oklahoma Sooners forward Blake Griffin (23) controls the ball against...

Griffin out vs. Kansas with concussion

Oklahoma Sooners center Blake Griffin missed Monday night's game against the Kansas Jayhawks as he recovers from a concussion.