ESPN Search

The SEC/Big East Challenge may not quite have the longstanding cachet of its ACC/Big Ten brethren, nor should it. The ACC/Big Ten Challenge is 13 going on 14, and as the years piled up and the Atlantic Coasters just kept winning -- the ACC won the fi...

Have you caught your breath yet? Me neither. But the glorious first weekend of the NCAA tournament rolls on undaunted, and so must we. Thirty-two teams remain. By the end of tomorrow, there can be only 16. You know the math. And since you know the...

At this point in the season, college hoops' biggest games come in two different sizes. There are: 1) genuinely big games and 2) genuinely big bubble games. We had a smattering of both categories this afternoon. We'll cover all of the evening actio...

Saturday afternoon transitioned into Saturday night as smoothly as Kentucky transitions from an Anthony Davis block to the fast break. In the process, we saw Michigan State defend like crazy at Ohio State, Creighton take a beatdown by Wichita State a...

On Saturday night, Kentucky will be in Nashville, Tenn., to play the Vanderbilt Commodores. In a vacuum, this fixture has all the makings of an upset: It's Kentucky's first real SEC road game against a likely NCAA tournament team. Memorial Coliseum -...

Here are a few things we learned from the biggest games Saturday afternoon. Check back later for analysis of tonight's games. No. 3 Ohio State 58, No. 20 Wisconsin 52: Ohio State is hardly a breakneck team, but its adjusted tempo this season is 68...

As good as the afternoon was, with exciting upsets and huge road wins over top-five teams, the evening may have matched it in the vital FOPM statistical category. (FOPM stands for freak outs per minute. It's a tempo-adjusted metric, naturally.) Let's...

The Morning After is our semi-daily recap of the night's best basketball action. Political leanings aside, it found last night's debate utterly fascinating. Penn State 54, No. 25 Illinois 52: The last time we saw the Fighting Illini, they were at ...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. No. 8 North Carolina at Virginia Tech, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN: The last time we saw the Tar Heels take the floor against an ACC opponent on the road ... well, you know what happen...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action. It thinks a commenter may have found the reason for the drop in offense this season -- the lack of The Jimmer. (OK, not really. But it still doesn't have a better theory.) ...

Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the upcoming night's best basketball action. No. 9 Florida at No. 3 Syracuse, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN: My podcast co-host Dana O'Neil was talking about the Orange and her time in Syracuse on the show this week, and ...

On Monday night, nestled within an otherwise so-so night of hoops, No. 11 Xavier got an impressive overtime win over No. 18 Vanderbilt on the Commodores' home floor. The result solidified what we already knew about Xavier: Tu Holloway is one of the b...

Today is the big day: The Carrier Classic. It's exciting. It's fun. It's going to be one of the better spectacles in college hoops history. But for various reasons I discussed on the podcast yesterday, it not be the best-played basketball game of all...

Louisville and Vanderbilt are both safely ensconced in the warmth of the Associated Press poll's preseason top 25. Both teams have high expectations -- it's fair to say the Final Four is the goal for both -- in 2011-12. And both teams, by varying deg...

Back on March 17, No. 12-seed Richmond ejected No. 5-seed Vanderbilt from the NCAA tournament's round of 64. Shortly thereafter, ESPN Stats & Information sent along the following tidbit (and yes, this is why it's good to have Gmail, because I had...

Our friends at The Mag are previewing one high-profile school per day for their Summer Buzz series. For the sake of all that is synergistic, yours truly will be attempting the same, complementing each comprehensive Insider preview with some analytic ...