It's now official: BYU has less than a year remaining as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The school and the WCC announced tonight they'll be teaming up in all sports save for football come 2011-12. The Cougars are going through with their threat of being an independent in pigskin, a move that will assuredly bring an intelligent column or five about the benefits and consequences of that move. Here's the ... Read More

Reality television probably doesn't have much of a long-term place on college campuses. It may not have any place, some would argue. But Texas Tech is going back into the business anyway. It'll be the school's second foray; you'll remember the first go-round four and a half years ago, when "Knight School" had a six-episode run on ESPN. That's when Bobby Knight was still running the show. The new program, "The Ride," won't ... Read More

It was against the University of Windsor. Let's keep that fresh and in the front of our minds. But most Kentucky fans will cull as much as possible from 28 minutes of play after Brandon Knight exploded for 31, seven and four — and zero. That's turnovers. He also made 58 percent of his shots. In more trivial matters, Kentucky defeated the Lancers, 95-62. A Sea of Blue gives a very level-headed ... Read More

Little noise from East Lansing tonight, as Chris Allen was dismissed from the team. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Allen, you'll remember, was benched in the beginning of March for disrupting the team/violating rules/open-to-interpretation.  Izzo called Allen a bad teammate amid Michigan State's run to the Final Four. Though Allen sat out in the Big Ten tournament, but he came back to play in the NCAAs, only to be hindered by injury. Allen, ... Read More

Getting top-five-class talent isn't something N.C. State is used to. It's, frankly, part of the bane of the existence that is State Fan, the inferiority complex that comes with rooting for the red and white. Duke and Carolina have only extended the gap distance between the Wolfpack in the past six seasons. But the role of little brother may take on a temporary label-shedding experience with the news of C.J. Leslie's ... Read More

It's a stat you may have heard tossed out there after Duke fended off Butler. In the last 10 years, only Florida, Kansas, Syracuse and Connecticut have gotten in the way of the ACC winning in college basketball on the grand scale. Duke's titles bookend a half-score of domination that will further allow ACC honks (and I say that endearingly) to boast about their conference's absolute ownage over the rest of ... Read More

Remember 11 years ago? When a team that was plenty good but plenty underrated/underappreciated went up against Duke in the national championship game and few gave it a shot? That team went on to win its first title in program history, despite being the underdog. Despite having no Final Four prior Final Four experience. Despite having only one legitimate future NBA'er on its roster. And although Richard Hamilton won the MOP award ... Read More

It's an easy story for ESPN.com to run on its front page this morning. A small school going up against college basketball's preeminnent program of the past 25 seasons. The storylines just unfurl right in front of you, don't they? We can ponder about Butler winning tonight, how great of a victory that would be and just how huge of an upset it is. Unfortunately, it's not all that true. Butler ... Read More

If UVM wins, it would have the trump card on central New York. Forever. A 16 only beats a 1 for the first time once. Are you brave enough to call it? Have made no attempts to mask my subjectivity to the Vermont Catamounts (what a nickname). A reset: I lived in South Burlington, Vt., from 1991 to 1998. Grew up there. Went to high school there. Failed to kiss many ... Read More

We're now entering the final quarter of the college basketball season. Talk of bubbles, dancing, RPI, strength of schedule and Cinderella will soon dominate the conversation (if they haven't begun to already). But there is one storyline of futility that still exists. Alcorn State and Bryant entered last weekend being the only two winless teams in Division I. The Braves finally took care of business, defeating Mississippi Valley State 55-54 at ... Read More

For all the hoopla last weekend's Harvard-Cornell game got, the Crimson haven't lived up to their end of the Ivy League bargain. It was a glorious start, the best in school history, but life in this League mean one loss weighs as much as five wins. After Tommy Amaker's team lost 63-53 last night at home to Princeton, a team that is 13-5 overall. Harvard made a frenzied come back, but ... Read More

Hey, I love me some Kalin Lucas. I think he's just about everything Scottie Reynolds claims to be. But is he in Mateen Cleaves' league?

This broke Wednesday, so I apologize for being tardy with it. In a move that will have the tiniest of ripple effects, the University of New Orleans officially got permission to withdraw from the Sun Belt Conference, effective July 1. The move had to be made because the university simply can't afford to have Division I athletics in a post-Katrina New Orleans. In a really classy move, the Sun Belt Conference had a ... Read More

Let's get right to it. Syracuse falling by 10 at home to Pittsburgh, 82-72, was probably the biggest story of the day. While at the URI-Oklahoma State game, people's reaction of this was a collective double-take. Syracuse fans, some of the most pessimistic-yet-righteous fans of all, actually want to lay blame on the officials for this one. Kansas made the biggest statement Saturday. Temple likes to keep the points low, it just ... Read More

Thought about this as soon as UConn was jobbed of a chance at overtime last night. And although we're about three weeks away from the first edition of "Dancing on the Bubble," I did want to bring one small team to your attention. Consider the resume: Nine straight wins after an 0-2 start. The losses came against Connecticut and Harvard. Harvard is no slouch this season. Bill & Mary has a seven-point ... Read More

What surprises you? Each year, the unexpected happens in one capacity or another, so what really curls your ear or crooks your eye? Hopefully, I've got a few things listed below that will do one or the other. Though the ear thing is a bit harder over the Internet. Have you been paying attention to hoops closely, or are you now just starting to visit sites like this one because college ... Read More

If you read this site it means you follow college hoops with a FERVOR. (For that, I thank you.) And with that fervor comes knowledge. So it's no surprise to you that Kentucky is on the precipice of becoming the first team in the history of college basketball to win 2,000 games. The school that has been to the Final Four 13 times, won seven national titles, won 25 SEC titles, has ... Read More

Have always thought Sports Illustrated tries to put stuff out there for the sake of being contrarian. This choice I don't quite get. North Carolina and Florida seem like the only two choices, really, and I totally get and respect what Tom Izzo and Michigan State have been able to do in the past 10 years, but how do you justify putting Sparty above the Heels and the only back-to-back title winners ... Read More