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Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It is super psyched about conference play. No. 8 Minnesota at No. 12 Illinois, 9 p.m. ET, BTN: I love this time of year. We're off and running with all-out conference play ...

The SEC/Big East Challenge may not quite have the longstanding cachet of its ACC/Big Ten brethren, nor should it. The ACC/Big Ten Challenge is 13 going on 14, and as the years piled up and the Atlantic Coasters just kept winning -- the ACC won the fi...

Say this for the NCAA: When it expanded the tournament to 68 teams, it accomplished at least one thing. It made your argument invalid. Once the province of outrage and disgust, the post-tournament bracket digestion process has become downright ...

Click here to read our afternoon recap. Now back to the lecture at hand, which comes in three parts: The Rivalry No. 2 Syracuse 71, Connecticut 69: One of the many things to love about this Syracuse team -- besides its great zone defense and in...

The Morning After is our semi-daily recap of last night's best basketball action. It highly recommends John Gasaway's treatise on the historical origins and context of the Ratings Percentage Index. Essential reading. I have a bad memory. It's one ...

Here are a few things we learned from the biggest games Saturday afternoon. Check back later for analysis of tonight's games. No. 3 Ohio State 58, No. 20 Wisconsin 52: Ohio State is hardly a breakneck team, but its adjusted tempo this season is 68...

With a little help from Madonna, the Bottom 10 salutes Towson after the Tigers snapped their 41-game losing streak.

Every week, your humble college basketball hoops blogger (er, me) will respond to your questions, comments and nonsensical rants in this here Hoopsbag. To submit a query, visit this page by clicking the link under my name in the upper right-hand corn...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It stayed up late working on Bubble Watch last night. If it could have any one superpower, it would be the power to never feel tired. Or maybe flight. Flight would be cool, to...

I'll admit it: I'm still fascinated by mascots. I have a huge amount of respect for the kids who willingly dress up in huge, stifling costumes -- complete with giant head covers that must really leave a crimp in the ol' neck -- especially when those ...

Current college students were just kids on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Then the world forever changed for that 9/11 generation. In their own words, nine college basketball players affected by the attack share their recollections.

The last time we checked in with former Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez, the coach -- who was fired last spring after an unflattering profile in The New York Times and blowups with Seton Hall athletics and administrative officials -- was defiantly lo...

Have you ever had shin splints? I have. They're the worst. They totally ache when you try to play basketball, and they cause you to quit earlier than you would have liked, and they screw with your footwork (and thus screw with your jump shot, thus ma...

This was not a Merry Christmas for Seton Hall guard Jeremy Hazell. Hazell, a senior who was Seton Hall's leading scorer last season and was averaging 24 points per game this season before a broken wrist sidelined him in November, was walking home ...

That's the thesis of this Associated Press story from a couple days back, and it's hard to argue with the numbers. To wit: Yet when the nation's best high school players gathered last summer for the Elite 24 game, no New Yorkers were on the court. W...

Hey, it's college basketball's opening night. Sort of! Woo! OK, so Monday was the first night of actual games. And next week's ESPN Tip-Off Marathon (wherein, yes, I will be liveblogging for 25 hours straight; I hope to see you there) feels like t...