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NEW YORK -- Officials Brian O'Connell and Bo Boroski huddled around the monitor. They asked for more replays of a trap on Purdue's D.J. Byrd and the subsequent raised elbow that sent Villanova's Darrun Hilliard flailing back onto the court. The two...

Purdue fans didn't want to leave Mackey Arena on Wednesday night. Why should they have? At least, not before Robbie Hummel had a chance to speak. Few players have given so much to one program. Hummel should have played in a Final Four in his car...

Imagine watching the Purdue-Xavier game with no sound on Saturday. All you see is Robbie Hummel, knee braces on both legs, grabbing his left hamstring and hobbling. Then, a few minutes later, you glance up and see that Hummel is back on the floor, ...

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

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Quick hitters after talking to several coaches here at the AAU nationals: • The U.S. World University Games team -- led by Purdue coach Matt Painter (U.S. team head coach) along with Butler coach Brad Stevens and Tenn...

Quick thoughts for the final week of the regular season: • If Kansas State continues on its current pace and finishes in third place in the Big 12, why shouldn't Frank Martin be coach of the year in the league? Martin has dealt with multiple s...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Purdue coach Matt Painter had never seen his team play with so little discipline, toughness and intelligence this season. As Painter headed back on the court Tuesday night for the second half, he was at a loss for how to explain...

The Big Ten is seven or eight deep in potential NCAA tournament teams. The ACC has Duke and a host of teams that are hard to discern from No. 2 on down. So of course the Big Ten will capture the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, right? Not quite. Virginia rev...

Purdue has time to figure out life without Robbie Hummel, but the first week of the post-Hummel season has produced a few certainties for coach Matt Painter. Hummel, the senior forward and Big Ten player of the year candidate, tore his right ACL l...

Editor's Note: Andy Katz's revised top 25 was published on Friday with Purdue at No. 2. With Saturday's news of Robbie Hummel's devastating retorn ACL, Katz has issued an updated version: 1. Duke: No reason to move the Blue Devils. Kyle Singler an...

With the official start of practice Friday night, it feels like a good time to revisit my preseason top 25, which hasn't been touched since the final underclassman decisions were made in mid-May. Not much has changed near the top. Duke is still No...

Credit Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski for giving college upperclassmen more opportunities to not only get seen, but to improve for a quick sojourn in Las Vegas later this month. The USA Basketball experience at the national team level has become an NB...

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe is one of the 10 members of the NCAA tournament selection committee and was on the inside of the decision-making process that led to the change from a 65- to a 68-team field, despite the assumption nationally that the 96...

Now that we know who's in the draft and who's out, who gets Andy Katz's top spot in his revised top 25? The same team that ended last season No. 1. But a pair of Big Ten teams aren't far behind.

Purdue's chance to compete for the 2011 national title improved on Saturday after JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore informed coach Matt Painter that they would return for their senior season.

These are nerve-racking days for Matt Painter. By Saturday night, the Purdue coach could have a team that will be one of the top three in the country, a favorite to win the Big Ten and a rare power-six team that has three senior stars. Or he could ...