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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

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

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

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