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At 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU unveiled the 2012-13 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Presented by Wendy's (a sponsorship I have no problem citing, because I love me a good spicy chicken sandwich) and, by and large, the list was about what you'd expect. This ...

Normally, when Mason Plumlee does something that has me reciting simple facts in lieu of analysis -- e.g., his face-melting one-handed alley-oop in last night's gutty Duke victory over No. 4 Ohio State -- the award for College Basketball Nation Shot ...

Last week, former Big East interim commissioner Joe Bailey spoke at the Bloomberg Sports Business Summit. Among the discussed topics -- which I'm sure included "leveraging integrated verticals" or whatever other buzzwords business folk like to drop t...

This morning, my colleague Fran Fraschilla listed his five under-the-radar teams ready to break out in 2012-13. So today's Top 10 Thursday feature is a quick look at a batch of players who could enjoy a similar trajectory -- players who haven't broke...

We have now entered conference realignment's Stage 3. Or is it Stage 4? It's hard to keep track. Part of the reason it's so hard to definitively describe the where we are in the realignment process is because Stage 1 remains alive and well. Confer...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. Conspiracy Keanu just totally blew its mind. The Big East tournament is officially underway, so keep your eyes peeled for updates from Kieran Darcy and Dana O'Neil througho...

It's OK to admit it: This is hardly the best Saturday we've seen this season. But here's the good news: It's Feb. 18. We're well within sniffing distance of Selection Sunday, and so every game is meaningful -- including, but certainly not limited to,...

The new building. The empty office. The unpacked boxes of knick-knacks and memorabilia. The awkward getting-to-know-you phase. The news conference performance. The fan-outreach efforts. The new home in the new community. This is the life of the co...

Some scattered reflections on what turned out to be a rather tremendous afternoon of college hoops (Cory Joseph bobbleheads sold separately): Gonzaga gets its much-needed win. Forget an NCAA tournament at-large bid. For now, Gonzaga just needed t...

As we get set for a hoops-filled weekend, here's a linky look back on the week that was at the College Basketball Nation blog: After Michigan State's wide-margin defeat to Syracuse Tuesday, readers discussed whether it was fair to start worrying ...

A chill is in the air, the hooded sweatshirts are slowly appearing and in my yuppie neighborhood, some people are already wearing North Face. You know what that means: The time for Summer Shootarounds is over. Today's final addition -- a look at the ...

Imagine you got a job. Good for you! You wouldn't go so far as to say it's your dream job, but it's your first full-time managerial position in a tough economy, and you're a pretty young guy, so, you know, pat yourself on the back. Your Mom sends you...

Jeremy Lin is breaking all sorts of NBA-related barriers. He's an Asian-American, for one, and Asian-Americans are all too rare in college hoops, let alone in the NBA. But there's also the little matter of Lin's former college, Harvard, which (as you...

MILWAUKEE -- If the story of the tournament thus far is the number of upsets on hand, the underlying story has been the way those upsets have disproportionately sunk Big East teams. No. 11 Old Dominion outlasts No. 6 Notre Dame. No. 11 Washington...

MILWAUKEE -- Please check your upset-laden March Madness at the door. David fought Goliath and, as is so often the case in college basketball, Goliath shrugged off the puny little slingshot and got down to the business of a beating. Some quick postga...

MILWAUKEE -- Some quick halftime thoughts from a game that looks unlikely to fall in line with the insanity of Thursday's upset bonanza: Pittsburgh has been able to get easy buckets in the paint almost at will. Oakland hung around for much of th...