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The University of Kansas mens basketball program has soared to new heights under coach Bill Self. The Jayhawks have regularly been a Top 10 ranked team in his 11 year tenure at the school, winning the 2008 NCAA National Championship, the school’s first since the legendary Larry Brown coached team won the title back in [...]

Despite being proclaimed the best high school player since Lebron James, University of Kansas star freshman Andrew Wiggins hasn’t quite had the standout season some had expected in College Hoops. While fellow star frosh and potential one-and-done players Julius Randle, Jabari Parker, and even fellow teammate Joel Embiid have all had some pretty impressive offensive [...]

Welcome to the rest of  the NBA season. With the All-Star break in our rear-view mirror, things are starting to get serious. They’re heating up. The Heat are heating up. Playoff berths and positions are on the line as the Association prepares for the latter quarter of its campaign. And so is lottery order, which [...]

Let’s call last year’s NBA trade deadline what it was: Awful and boring. Next, let’s guess what this year’s NBA trade deadline will be like: Potentially awful and boring. The current collective bargaining agreement has made it so NBA teams aren’t as frivolous with their spending and willingness to assume long-term contracts. Punitive luxury-tax penalties [...]

Since 1978, more than 1,150 players have competed in the McDonald’s All American Games, forming an elite list of some of the top names in basketball history including, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Durant, and Kevin Love. Just last year, we all bore witness to some of today’s top [...]

Prior to the start of the ’13-’14 NCAA hoops season all anyone was talking about was University of Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins and how he was the 2nd  coming of NBA superstar Lebron James, capable of leading the Jayhawks to another NCAA Title. But expectations for Wiggins has tempered a bit as fellow frosh like [...]

Well, duh. The 2014 NBA draft class is expected to be the deepest pool of talent seen since 2003, when players like LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade each made jumps to the Association. Naturally, teams holding first-round picks—and multiple first-rounders—are taking a long hard look at the most highly touted targets. Especially the [...]

Star University of Kansas freshman has taken his lumps early on this season while other fab frosh like Kentucky’s Julius Randle, Duke’s Jabari Parker, and fellow Jayhawk Joel Embiid have made an instant impact this season. But at presstime, Wiggins was averaging 16 ppg and 6.3 boards, not to shabby for an 18 year old [...]

This year’s prized crop of potential one-and-done immediate impact freshman like Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, and Julius Randle have been every bit as good as expected. What we didn’t see coming is just how good some of the returning upperclassmen like Marcus Smart, Doug McDermott, and Shabazz Napier could be. Players like Kansas freshman Joel [...]

In case you’ve been living under a rock, the whole basketball universe is abuzz when it comes to Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins, the 6’8 Canadian born man-child of a forward that has nearly a dozen of NBA teams already in “tank mode” for the services of the freakishly athletic game-changer. His unlimited future potential has [...]