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John Gasaway ranks the top 25 freshmen in college basketball for the first month of the season -- based on production, not potential. UNLV's Anthony Bennett earns the No. 1 spot.

Story | Conversation | December 06, 2012

Mark it down: Just like every other year, this year's draft class will produce several players that will make teams regret passing on them. Ryen Russillo provides his top 10 sleepers for this year's draft.

Blog | Conversation | June 23, 2010

Trades, surprising picks, sleepers -- we're hearing all kinds of rumors about the 2010 NBA draft. Chad Ford reports on a wide array of news: the jumbled lottery picture, college stars ready to make noise in the second round and trades in the works.

Blog | Conversation | June 14, 2010

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

After talking to sources around the league, Chad Ford sees 23 prospects who are locks for the first round of the NBA draft. But what about those final seven spots? There are roughly 20 players in the mix. Ford identifies them and breaks down their games.

Blog | Conversation | May 31, 2010

Chad Ford kicks off his annual tour of NBA draft prospect workouts in Los Angeles, where he saw Jordan Crawford, Damion James, Paul George, Jerome Jordan, Ben Uzoh, Jarvis Varnado and Luke Harangody in action. A few players already changed his Big Board.

Blog | Conversation | May 11, 2010

After attending the Nike Hoop Summit, Chad Ford breaks down some of the most promising 2011 draft prospects, including presumptive No. 1 overall pick, Harrison Barnes, a host of young European players and some of the other top high school seniors.

Blog | Conversation | April 12, 2010

The report card is out, and Doug Gottlieb has the final grades for some of the best mid- and high majors and the schools from the top six conferences.

Story | Conversation | April 09, 2010

Fran Fraschilla examines a trio of top prospects from mid-major conferences -- Butler's Gordon Hayward, Gonzaga's Matt Bouldin and Tulsa's Jerome Jordan -- and rates their NBA potential.

Blog | Conversation | February 17, 2010

Chad Ford explores which NBA teams may be willing to swap a first-round pick for another commodity as the NBA trade deadline approaches.

Blog | Conversation | February 15, 2010

Great (adjective) [greyt]: notable; remarkable; exceptionally outstanding; being such in an extreme or notable degree. "A great college basketball team." You may have heard me say it and say it many times. And you may think it sounds unkind and ...

Blog | Conversation | February 04, 2010

Chad Ford examines why NBA teams usually turn up their noses at college seniors come draft day and names the top 10 four-year players with a chance to crack the first round in June. Plus, other updates to his Big Board.

Blog | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Chad Ford runs through the college and international players that helped and hurt their stock the most this summer, including a Kansas guard who could overshadow Sherron Collins and Wake Forest's Al-Farouq Aminu, who continues to disappoint.

Blog | Conversation | November 12, 2009

College basketball is an interesting clique. There are some dysfunctional elements to the game (like the path some travel to recruit players through intermediaries), and some elements that display their utter perfection every year (like the NCAA tour...

Blog | Conversation | November 02, 2009

Blue Ribbon Illustrated previews the 2003-04 college basketball season, exclusively on Insider.

Story | Conversation | November 04, 2003