I was doing all of this hunting, keeping tabs on who's going, who's staying and who's on the fence ... then found Chad Ford. Here's what makes this list so comical: 48 players. Forty-eight of the 60 draft spots are being attempting to be spoken for by underclassmen. Throw in the helping of seniors who will be drafted and another five-to-eight foreign guys that will be plucked by someone, and ... Read More

    All that talk of toughness, heart, grit, passion and hard work is going to be crammed down your throat by the likes of Vitale, Bilas, etc... in '08-'09 as Tyler Hansbrough has (intelligently) decided to stay for his senior season. The brief statement on Psycho T's decision was released by the school. Whether you're a Hansbrough fan or not, amidst the Beasleys, Durants, Odens and Roses of the world, he helps ... Read More

Its best player — sophomore D.J. Augustin — and its most beautiful pair of eyelashes — junior A.J. Abrams — have both decided to declare for the draft. It's hard to argue against Augustin's decision: The kid has the makings of a wealthy man's Chris Paul. Augustin's statement, which was released by the team, may as well have been pressed onto the paper with a huge, ready-made stamp. "I have had ... Read More

  Allow me to be one of the first to pose the question that will surely become prominently asked as college basketball season perks up in early November. Looking at the crop of freshman that will hit college campuses across the country next season, it definitely looks inferior to what we've just seen in '07-'08. Standing six-foot-four and already having carved out some muscle and a name for himself, Evans looks to ... Read More

A little late here, but this is the final tally on what the Blogosphere feels about the teams in '07-'08. Notice how much The Tournament can skew opinion (Davidson is the seventh-best team in the country? Really?). Kansas Memphis UCLA North Carolina Texas Louisville Davidson Xavier Tennessee Stanford Wisconsin Georgetown Washington State Butler West Virginia Duke Michigan State Marquette Western Kentucky Purdue Notre Dame   Connecticut Drake Kansas State   Mississippi State ... Read More

  You knew it was happening with Love. I thought Westbrook would be a little more intelligent about it all. The news they want everyone to know up front: They're not signing with agents! Here's my little retrospective on Love: In my humble opinion, this beast of a kid had a chance to be a Top 10 all-time college player (in a dream world where he stayed all four years). I specifically chose ... Read More

Jayhawks junior Brandon Rush and sophomore Darrell Arthur are trying themselves that ever-present verb at this time of year — foregoing — and making The Leap. So no aspirations of back-to-back titles a la Noah and Co. in '06 and '07. Chalmers still hasn't made up his mind ... boy, it'd be nice to see him back, and he'd be the BMOC for the entire year. That'd be nice. Just so you ... Read More

First he was rumored to take the LSU job, but now it's official: Travis Ford will be coaching in the Big XII next year at Oklahoma State. The press conference will be going down around 2 p.m. today. Funny, when you learn that last August Ford signed that coveted multiyear extension to coach UMass. Such is the way of the coaching world in college basketball. Ford had been the coach at UMass ... Read More

(Updated: April 18) I know this list can get ridiculous, so here's your list of early entrees. The draft declaration deadline is April 27, so I'll update this over the course of the next 11 days. I really hope a bunch of the 50-50 guys come back next year so we can try and keep some of the identity of the game in tact. (Ha. Yeah, right.) Signing with agents: » Michael ... Read More

After Drake's utterly unpredictable season, in which they went 28-5 and received a 5-seed in The Tournament, Providence has scooped up the 36-year-old Coach of the Year winner. "That's all I can ask -- is our players' best effort," Davis told reporters after a news conference introducing him as coach. "How many wins that means, I don't know. I'm not going to put a number out there that we have to ... Read More

I loved me some Memphis, but there's no doubt about it: Beasley should be the No. 1 pick in this year's NBA Draft. Let me remind you of his comet-like collegiate career: 26.2 points per game 12.4 rebounds per game, led the nation and was the third freshman to ever do so All-American, First Team Big XII POTY Thirty-seven percent 3-point shooter Led K-State to their first Tournament win in 20 years Most importantly: Kansas State was relevant ... Read More

And Bill Self has done that. He has a new contract (details of which have not been released) and the coach will be calling Kansas home for the next eight years. That seems about right. “I see the finish line being here,” he said. “I don’t want to say positively. You never know. Things do change. You may have a new administration, a lot of different things. I will say I ... Read More

Here's how you can keep up. Cal hired Mike Montgomery, who once coached Stanford ... so that makes sense. Ben Braun—the guy they fired, coached there for 12 years prior. Braun, in turn, is now the coach at Rice. So it appears Stanford will lose Trent Johnson ... who will go and coach at LSU. Indiana, of course, hired Tom Crean. That affects Marquette, who now will have Buzz Williams drawing on the wipey board. ... Read More

I get a lot of flack from my girlfriend over the fact that I don't put nearly enough coverage of the women's game on this site. Truth is, ACL injury jokes just aren't that funny anymore. Anyway, it's pretty ridiculous that Pat Summitt is now two titles away from tying John Wooden for the most all time in the game of college basketball. Women's basketball, in order to bring in eyes, ... Read More

Who said it was a down year? Give me 10 games of the caliber listed below and I'll be fine if the other 54 are snoozers. I do run a bracket pool every year, and in the final e-mail I compile this list, so I'm quite happy to have another outlet to share my opinion on the matter. Let's relive the 10 best out of the 64 that were played. I ... Read More

It's going to be, or has become, a trend on the Blogosphere to bring up John Calipari's defiance about the importance of free throw shooting. I was inundated at work today and I promise I'll have plenty of college hoops goodness to fill up your stomach for post-Tournament coverage. Anyway, I'd like to point out that, back on Feb. 22, I put up this video before all of this Memphis ... Read More

So chaotic, so flawed a play, it makes Chalmers' (who kind of fumbles the ball before he really goes up with it) shot all the more incredible. I'm still sick over it. I can't even imagine being a Memphis fan today. ... Read More

Well, I'm still not over it. I'm ready to say that Chalmers' shot is the biggest play in college basketball this side of the century. It's just unfortunate that it came from a coaching gaffe. (Preface:. Notice how I don’t even mention the fact that there was overtime. There was five extra minutes for another chance with plenty of time to make up what went wrong. But in sports it’s all ... Read More