When the UCLA landed the #1 ranked recruiting class this Summer it was supposed to signal the return to elite status of one of college basketball’s most storied programs. After all it has been nearly 4 years since the Kevin Love led Bruins made their last of 3 consecutive trips to the Final Four and [...]
At the tail end of ESPN’s 24 hour NCAA basketball Tip-Off Marathon, college hoops fans were treated to a monstrous doubleheader of action pitting some of the game’s most illustrious programs, in the inaugural Champions Classic. While Duke got the best of Kentucky in the nightcap, the most thrilling and game of the early season [...]
While the casual hoops fan is focused on traditional Big Ten Conference powers Ohio State, Michigan State, and Indiana again this season, they might be forgetting about another once storied program from the conference that is primed to make a run at the Final Four. Most haven’t really given the Michigan Wolverines much thought ever [...]
A few weeks ago, when prized high school prospect Andrew Wiggins reclassified to the 2013 recruiting class, basketball fans across the nation rejoiced as we now all will get to see the unanimous top rated prospect one year earlier in college. Whether he ultimately chooses Kentucky, Florida State, Florida, Ohio State, or any of the [...]
Back in late April, coach Ben Howland and the UCLA Bruins were fresh off assembling the #1 rated recruiting class in the nation, and had a fighting chance at getting back to the program’s rightful place among the NCAA elite teams. But then came the disappointing news that fellow Top 5 rated recruits Shabazz Muhammed [...]
While many college basketball fans are clearly focused on John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats early on this offseason, as the Cats may be in the midst of securing the best recruiting class in history, Bill Self at Kansas is quietly formulating his very own All-Star incoming class for 2013 as well. After a down [...]
It has been since midway through the ’07-’08 season that legendary collegiate coach Bob Knight last coached a minute on an NCAA hardwood. After finishing with a record 902 Division I coaching victories, a mark since broken by Duke University’s Mike Kryzewski, “The General” has since taken his talents to the broadcast booth as an [...]