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ESPN Insider Jay Bilas presents the latest Bilas Index after a week of upsets and crazy conference play. This week, the Indiana Hoosiers crack the top 10 for the first time while Pitt continues to plummet.

Story | Conversation | January 08, 2012

STORRS, Conn. -- If you walked into Gampel Pavilion on Wednesday and watched Connecticut play multiple pickup games, you might have revised your top 25 and put the Huskies at No. 1 instead of No. 3 or 4. The Final Four's Most Outstanding Player was...

Quick hitters for Monday: • The speculation about whether 6-foot-10 Andre Drummond, the No. 1 player in 2012 (currently at St. Thomas More School in Middletown, Conn.), could end up playing in the fall at UConn is over. It's not happening. Acc...

Doug Gottlieb ranks each of the major conferences, evaluating every team. The results? Duke, Ohio State, Kansas and Pittsburgh are sitting pretty.

Blog | Conversation | January 01, 2011

The top 10 in this week's ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll remains unchanged from last week. But change could be just around the corner.

Organizational strategy plays a large role in the draft, and more and more teams are using advanced metrics to guide their selections. Chad Ford gets access to three teams' metric-based top-10 lists and unveils those rankings, in addition to other notes.

Blog | Conversation | June 08, 2010

As the early-entry deadline approaches, Fran Fraschilla examines the role college coaches play in the process. Juggling the desire to win with a player's NBA dream can be a tough act, especially if the coach hopes to land more top recruits.

Blog | Conversation | April 22, 2010

After taking two hits as No. 1, UT tries to return to winning ways vs. Texas Tech.

The Big East is in a difficult spot when it comes to scheduling. With 16 teams, the league can't ensure that its top teams will always play each other twice, as teams will play a home-and-home series with only three teams. Pitt and Connecticut did ...

Connecticut point guard Jerome Dyson is scheduled to have surgery on his injured right knee on Monday, and he doubts that he will be able to play for the top-ranked Huskies again this season.

As Big East play begins -- with the league looking more top-heavy than ever -- Andy Katz breaks down what each team needs to do to make the league's best case for a record 10 bids.

What have we learned from Kansas' title win? Which team will have the look of a champion in 2009? UConn, UCLA and Texas will all be tough, but North Carolina has the look of a title team, writes Doug Gottlieb.

Story | Conversation | April 11, 2008

In the second part of a weeklong look at the past decade in college basketball, ESPN.com anoints its top 10 teams from the past 10 years.

West Virginia (17-4), the only unbeaten team in Big East play, climbed one spot from 11th to 10th after beating Notre Dame and Cincinnati last week.

Duke, Texas and Connecticut, winners of the biggest early-season tournaments, held on to the top three spots in The Associated Press' college basketball poll on Monday.