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Nevada Tuesday was named the popular pick among WAC coaches to unseat perennial conference champion Utah State this season, as the Wolf Pack topped the preseason poll. Reigning WAC freshman of the year Deonte Burton was selected as preseason playe...

The Big 12 preseason poll, as voted on by the league's coaches, featured a familiar theme: Don't bet against Kansas. Despite losing the Morris twins to the first round of the NBA draft and adding seven newcomers, the Jayhawks tied with a veteran T...

USC coach Kevin O'Neill is confused why crosstown rival UCLA isn't ranked in the national polls this week -- especially after the Bruins beat Arizona by 22 points on Saturday and pulled into a tie with the Wildcats atop the Pac-10. "All I hear abo...

San Diego State returned nearly everyone and was supposed to be good, but did anyone think the Aztecs would be this good? This was a fringe top-25 team at the start of the season, unranked in the first ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. Now SDSU is 21-1...

There are now two teams from Utah in the national rankings. Utah State is riding the nation's fourth-longest winning streak at 13 games and is now getting recognized for it with a No. 25 ranking in the coaches poll. "It is nice to finally get ...

Saint Mary's, the Sweet 16 darling from a year ago, is back and receiving national attention, entering both polls earlier today having cruised into first place in the WCC. The Gaels are 16-2, having only lost to top-10 teams San Diego State and BY...

Pac-10 preseason favorite Washington exited the national rankings weeks ago, and the conference hasn't seen one of its teams in the polls since then. The way UCLA coach Ben Howland sees it, the Huskies merely lost to three current top-20 teams awa...

Washington State begins play in the Diamond Head Classic today knowing that things are going swimmingly. The one-loss Cougars are looking like contenders in the Pac-10 again and receiving votes in the polls. Klay Thompson is back to his old sharps...

San Diego State received its first national ranking in the Associated Press poll, debuting at No. 25 yesterday after 41 years as a Division I program. The Aztecs came in one spot behind rival BYU despite Mountain West media picking them to win the...

San Diego State was announced today as the pick in the preseason media poll to win the Mountain West Conference, but coach Steve Fisher knows better than to feed into the hype. He knows that never before have the Aztecs won a Division I NCAA tourn...

Syracuse, the new No. 1 in both the Associated Press and coaches polls, hosted College GameDay at the Carrier Dome on Saturday, inspiring The Post-Standard's time-lapse video of 34,616 filling up and emptying the place. The previous GameDay event ...

In the AP poll, it's No. 15 New Mexico, No. 17 BYU and No. 23 UNLV. In the coaches poll, it's No. 17 BYU, No. 19 New Mexico and No. 25 UNLV. They're the three teams tied atop the Mountain West Conference standings after UNLV took apart BYU on S...

First-year Cal Poly coach Joe Callero spoke with ESPN's Andy Katz over the summer and indicated he was ready for the coaching challenge. The Mustangs were promptly picked last in the Big West preseason media poll. But somehow, someway, Cal Poly ha...

Students are camping outside Bramlage Coliseum to get a good seat to this one and grab their Jacob Pullen fake beards on the way inside. That Kansas State leaped into the top 10 in both polls only adds to its Big Monday showdown against top-ranked...

The Pac-10 will not have a ranked team when the polls come out Monday. Bold prediction, I know. But could the Pac-10 be a one-bid conference? Consider that currently-ranked Washington is now all alone in 10th place in the conference standings. ...

The new Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls are out, and here's a rundown on a few of the movers and shakers: New Mexico fell six spots to No. 19 in the AP, but there's still a lot of love for the 12-1 Lobos even after they got upset by Ora...