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On Tuesday afternoon, UNLV forward Mike Moser made Oregon coach Dana Altman so happy the coach couldn't contain his beverage: "He said he spilled his coffee all over himself," Moser told the Oregonian. "He was really excited." Why all the excitemen...

Here at the ESPN.com college hoops headquarters, we -- and by "we," I mostly mean our tireless editor, Brett Edgerton -- spend a lot of time trying to plan for a sport that is inherently unpredictable. It's just part of the gig, same as anything else...

1. Florida is that good. Yes, Missouri was missing leading scorer Laurence Bowers, and yes, the game was in Gainesville. Even so, what Florida did to Missouri on Saturday -- an 83-52 stomping that began in the first minute and never relented -- wa...

Already this season, Arizona's toughest games -- a schedule that, while not a murderer's row, has been tougher than you might think -- have been as follows: At home versus Colorado, when Sabatino Chen hit the banked-in-and-later-called-off game-w...

Overview: For the first 13 minutes of the Global Sports Classic finale, it looked as if a demure and mostly dispersed Thomas & Mack Center crowd wasn't going to get much in return for its decision to eschew the Vegas sports books. Cincinnati came...

Big time news for Oregon Ducks and coach Dana Altman this afternoon, as the NCAA has granted Rice transfer Arsalan Kazemi's hardship waiver request, ESPN.com's Andy Katz reported: The Ducks staff was informed Thursday afternoon and relayed the news i...

As an overall league, the Pac-12 was really, really bad last season. But, in its badness, it was also profoundly weird. To wit: The 2012 Pac-12 regular-season champion, Washington, didn't go to the NCAA tournament, the first power-six team to acco...

Editor's note: For two weeks, we're rolling out Blue Ribbon previews for every team in the country. We'll also have comprehensive preview coverage of the nation's top 10 conferences. As part of that, we're asking our writers to share what they're mos...

College sports' wacky uniform trend began, as most athletic apparel trends do, in Oregon, where for the past decade or so the Nike-backed Oregon Ducks have used a constantly shifting array of uniform colors and combinations to lure the once-averse ey...

Editor's Note: To see our expert picks for each of the nation's 12 top conferences, click here. To cast your vote in these races, visit SportsNation. A quick look at the player and coach of the year races in the Pac-12: Player of the Year La...

For all the ways you can diss the Pac-12 this season -- and you can start with the 1-29 record against the RPI top 50 in nonconference play, or look at the paucity of teams ranked inside Ken Pomeroy's adjusted efficiency top 50 (there are two), and s...

Don't look now, but we may finally have this league figured out. For the first time since we unleashed these rankings on an unsuspecting hoops populace, almost nothing has changed in the past week of games. Why? Because at this point, we basically kn...

It's the second week of February. The college hoops season's version of crunch time is upon us. Where does the Pac-12 stand? Exactly where it stood three weeks ago. Or three weeks before that. Generally speaking, this is a league in stasis. Becaus...

Washington won the Pac-12's regular-season title. That's not saying much. But conference parity could make for an entertaining postseason.

Allow me to concur with my colleague, Myron Medcalf, who included the Pac-12's intriguing title race among his five observations Sunday: 2. The Pac-12 race is actually exciting: Let's ignore the fact this could still be a one-bid league and the over...

Now that's a Saturday of basketball. Take a deep breath, count to 10 and check out yours truly's observations from the evening's games, including the insane Kansas-Missouri finale. For a recap of this afternoon's games, click here. No. 4 Missou...