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WASHINGTON -- A look at Syracuse's 55-39 win over Marquette in the East Regional final Saturday. Overview: This was hardly a work of art. But nothing involving Big East teams tends to be beautiful this season. Syracuse manhandled Marquette in t...

Marquette and Syracuse, who meet for the East Region final, make an interesting match in the Elite Eight. Both teams fit the personality and style of their respective coaches.

With a suffocating defense, Syracuse beats Marquette and advances to the Final Four, writes Andy Katz.

Michigan State and Connecticut will play in a college basketball opener at an overseas military base on Nov. 9.

Florida will play Georgetown on a ship off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla. on Nov. 9.

The Big East will send out its annual straw poll to its coaches to get their preseason predictions about the strength of the league's teams to help put together next season's conference schedule. The league office said Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and Pit...

A Sweet 16 appearance elevates a program to the next level. A Final Four moves it up another notch. The matchups usually make the difference in getting this far. Talent -- and star power -- also play big roles. There is a certain level of pressur...

College basketball could use a Heisman-like award, one main honor instead of the five mainstream national awards. The problem is that finding a consensus for the Wooden, Naismith, AP, Rupp and Oscar Robertson honors is no easy task. The awards vo...

It was a week that began with a loaded field at the Maui Invitational and ended with two of the top four teams in the country being upset by unranked foes. Let's take a look back at the week that was in college basketball.

The 2011-12 season is filled with great matchups. Here are 25 games you can't miss.

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

Andy Katz updates his early top 25 after the NBA draft's early-entry deadline

Andy Katz takes a (very) early look at the top 25 for 2011-12 and finds some familiar names at the top.

Marquette in the Sweet 16 is a stunning development. The Golden Eagles beating Xavier and Syracuse is not. Take a step back and just digest who Marquette defeated. For a moment, forget the Golden Eagles' No. 11 seeding or that they were one of the...

The Big East was supposed to take a back seat to the Big Ten in the conference rankings. So far no other conference is close to the Big East -- at least in winning early season tournaments. The Big East has won six traditional tournaments (those w...

While the Big East decided it won't change its tournament format for 2011, where and when its conference games will be played this season remains a long, drawn-out process. The Big East handles its 18-game conference schedule using a poll voted on b...