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The Champions Classic, a two-game, one-night November event conjured up two years ago, was pretty much always guaranteed to be a success. Indeed, it was just what the sport needed -- a big, marquee event featuring four of the game's best programs and...

Editor's Note: This month, ESPN Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts are teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season. Today's featured program: Kentucky . Chec...

We see transfers all the time, but this one sticks out. A rising senior point guard announces he will be transferring ... in late May. His friend insinuates via Twitter that the player's decision wasn't actually the player's choice. Another former te...

First things first: For a guy who tore his ACL just three months ago, Nerlens Noel looks great. Walking around, taking photos and watching horses at the Kentucky Derby isn't the same as cutting on your recovering knee in a help-side defensive slide, ...

The Maui Invitational is pretty great. I think the gym has a lot to do with it. Instead of Random Sterile Corporate Arena X or a strangely converted hotel ballroom space, the Lahaina Civic Center looks and sounds like a high school basketball gym, at...

If there was a common meme underlying Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson's various antics his regular-season Auburn-bro-taunting jersey-popping, his Internet photos with alcoholic beverages, his brief postseason flirtation with something like mainstr...

Tuesday night was the perfect ending to Kentucky's 2012-13 "Back to Earth" World Tour: an upset loss to Robert Morris in John Calipari's hometown of Moon Township, Pa., punctuated by the first and most fun NIT court-storm I can remember. T...

Well, well, well. Apparently, a few teams want to go to the tournament after all. OK, so of course everyone wants to play in the NCAA tournament. But watching the past week or so of college hoops, you could have been convinced otherwise. Why, it w...

Anyone who saw Kentucky's post-Georgia news conferences would have been excused for thinking the Wildcats were, for lack of a better word, done. John Calipari said he'd done a "crap job" with this team. An angry Archie Goodwin claimed UK could bea...

In addition to plenty of just-plain-great games -- Louisville's win at Syracuse, Marquette's big home win over Notre Dame, that amazing Duke-Miami thriller at Cameron Indoor Stadium -- Saturday was also filled with bubble action, from the start of th...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It is still not feeling great. No. 1 Indiana at Minnesota, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN Every now and then in the past few weeks, folks have asked me whether I still think Minnesota...

As is customary this time of year, there was no shortage of bubbly college hoops action on this late-February Saturday. Let's tease out some winners and losers along the NCAA tournament cut line, shall we? WINNERS Kentucky: No question about it...

It's like our Saturday observations, but on Wednesday instead! A few end-of-day thoughts from another tremendous evening of college hoops: 1. Kansas stole one at Oklahoma State. Don't get it twisted: I'm not saying the Jayhawks didn't deserve to w...

Saturday wasn't packed with as many high-quality, top-10 games as we've become used to -- we're spoiled, us hoops fans -- but it did feature a plethora of variously shaky NCAA tournament hopefuls looking to add further credentials to their respective...

Editor's Note: Kentucky announced Wednesday afternoon that freshman center Nerlens Noel has a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the season. On Tuesday night, that thing you never want to see happen happened: A college basketball player suffe...

A handful of observations from IU-Michigan and the rest of Saturday night's college hoops action: Indiana and Michigan just played the best game of the year. No, it didn't end with a buzzer-beater finish. But that was the only thing it lacked. ...