This fall, for the first time in nearly three decades, men's basketball at Indiana University will begin without Bobby Knight as head coach.
Much has been written about how Michigan State's Monday night victory over Florida was the fitting end to the great collegiate careers of Spartan seniors Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson, and A.J.
This year's men's NCAA basketball tournament has been full of surprises, none of which are greater than the success of the Wisconsin Badgers. This past weekend the Badgers, along with Michigan State, Florida, and North Carolina, advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 1941.
Surprising nobody, the University of Pennsylvania clinched its second consecutive Ivy League championship with a fairly easy victory over Yale on Saturday night, rendering their match-up with Princeton tonight relatively meaningless.
Just over two weeks from now, 64 NCAA Division I college basketball teams will embark on a mission to reach the Holy Grail of hoops, the Final Four. As happens every year, some small conference team, maybe Indiana State or Kent or Pepperdine, will shock everyone but themselves and win a game or two against major conference teams.
As the college basketball regular season winds down, Duke finds itself in a very familiar position -- near the top. To be precise, the Blue Devils are currently ranked second in both the Associated Press poll and the Coaches' poll, behind only Stanford.
Recruiting violations and improper benefits. Those words must sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to any respectable college basketball coach.
Arizona, Stanford, UCLA. Western basketball has long been dominated by these Pac-10 Conference powerhouses.
Not since 1976, when the Indiana Hoosiers accomplished the feat, has a Division I college basketball team finished the season undefeated.
A top-25 without North Carolina? No, I'm not talking about football. Basketball? That's right " for the first time since the 1990-91 season the Tar Heels have fallen out of the Associated Press Top-25 poll. As we pass the midpoint of our journey from Midnight Madness to the Final Four, North Carolina's demise is just one of many interesting stories to fill college basketball headlines. In fact, a number of players, teams, and coaches have performed uniquely enough to earn special recognition. Earning recognition as the Most Disappointing Team at the season's midway point is none other than North Carolina.