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For the next four days, ESPN.com will be breaking down the nonconference schedules of each and every team in a dozen of the nation's top leagues. We began with the ACC and will continue later today with the SEC. For now, Conference USA ... EAST CA...

Editor's note: ESPN.com's Summer Shootaround series catches up on the offseason storylines for each conference. For more on Conference USA, click here. Five freshmen to watch in the league ... Shaq Goodwin, Memphis: Josh Pastner's 2012 recruiti...

This Saturday was always going to be a bit more underwhelming than recent weeks, but boy, did it end well. Once it ended, that is. Creighton students rushed the court before the game was officially over. Their reverse storm, in which they calmly walk...

College hoops doesn't totally shut down over the holiday. In fact, eight lucky teams get to spend Christmas in Hawaii, where they'll compete for top honors at the annual Diamond Head Classic. OK, OK, so this isn't quite the Maui Invitational. The fie...

Yep, it's that time of year again. Here are five things I can't wait to see in the 2011-12 version of Conference USA. 1. How long will there even be a Conference USA? Unfortunately, this doesn't have much to do with basketball, but it is the bi...

Here are five things I can't wait to see in Conference USA this season: 1. Memphis' young talent Two weeks ago, Memphis freshman Will Barton -- the gem of Josh Pastner's top-five recruiting class -- went out on a limb. Doing his best Joe Namath...

The immediate answer is: Yes. Yes it is. Faced with a rule that prevents coaches from hiring people associated with recruits to non-basketball positions in a college program -- a rule designed to prevent the sketchy package deals that have become a f...

I did not see this one coming. Derrick Caracter's NBA dream is currently his No. 1 focus. He left UTEP after his junior year at the school despite his discouraging "second round to undrafted" draft projection, and he has to make a go of it now, be...

Tim Floyd is going to be UTEP's next coach. It appears Steve Lavin is going to be doing something similar at St. John's. Two coaches, two jobs, two situations that take a decent amount of noodling before they begin to make sense. It's easier to wr...

Yesterday we covered the love/hate inherent in this year's NCAA tournament bracket. Let's do something different today. Let's make five bold predictions -- predictions so bold your face will melt, probably, which is itself a bold prediction -- about ...

Among the many complaints about this year's bracket, one that hasn't been discussed much is the pairings of non-BCS schools in the first round. There are four games in the opening round in which two non-BCS schools square off. Some people don't like ...

We're officially at that point of the tournament selection process where perceptions are pretty well solidified, and those perceptions carry over into the aftermath of the selection process. Normally, after the committee seeds the field, there is ...