Every preseason, we assume a handful of teams will be good because of returning stars or notable coaches, and the obvious positives lead the consensus to overlook—or not look for—potential issues.  T...

Will Wade stood at a podium in Dayton on March 17, a few minutes removed from a 68-66 loss to Texas in the First Four, and told NC State fans the worst was behind them. "This will be the worst team w...

It's that time of year again! Every preseason, I make one bold prediction for every conference, and every April I come back and grade myself—last season's tally: four hits, 15 close calls, and 12 cle...

The sophomore leap is one of college basketball's most reliable storylines. Every fall, a handful of players who flashed as freshmen become household names, and a few we expected to take that step nev...

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Kelvin Sampson has not had to worry much about the point guard position at Houston, going all the way back to Rob Gray’s emergence as a star early in his tenure. He has developed high-level players in...

Luke Murray's UConn tenure ended on a Monday night in Indianapolis, in a national championship game against Michigan. His Boston College tenure started just a few hours later, and the first thing he s...

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We've spent the entire offseason talking about how LSU built this roster, and understandably so. But as we get closer to the start of the season, there hasn’t been much talk about what that roster may...

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Houston has played in seven Final Fours and three national championship games. It is still looking for title No. 1. Purdue paired a two-time National Player of the Year in Zach Edey with the NCAA's a...

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Every road game presents its own challenge, but some dates get circled the moment the schedule drops. You know the buildings. The ones that are vital to the lifeblood of the sport, where crazed stude...

One of the best parts of March Madness is how quickly a team can become part of the tournament's history. A school most fans had barely watched all season wins a game or two, captures the country's at...

Jay Wright was not trying to change college basketball when he moved Randy Foye to power forward. He was trying to replace Curtis Sumpter. That was the problem Villanova had to solve heading into the...

The NBA Draft is always an exercise in projection. But it is also, too often, an exercise in typecasting. By this point in the cycle, most prospects have been sorted into tidy categories. The elite t...

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Picking the best team never to win it all is one of the great bar arguments in college basketball — and like most bar arguments, it usually runs on nostalgia and whichever heartbreak the person across...

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Ranking national champions is usually a fool's errand. These lists tend to boil down to vibes, recency bias, and whichever team the writer happened to grow up watching.  I wanted to do it differently...

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The NBA Draft is always an exercise in projection. But it is also, too often, an exercise in typecasting. By this point in the cycle, most prospects have been sorted into tidy categories. The elite t...

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For most of the NIL era, college basketball has been awaiting a correction. That has always been the underlying assumption around this market: eventually, the market would become too aggressive to su...

The transfer portal is often talked about in terms of fit, need and roster construction, and all of that matters. But sometimes, the appeal of a transfer is much simpler. Can this guy go get a bucket...

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The transfer portal opened at midnight after the national championship game, and within hours it was already overflowing. More than 1,000 Division I players entered the portal in the first 12 hours a...

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Every October, when the season is still a collection of possibilities, I make a promise that is equal parts fun and dangerous: I write down my bold predictions for every single conference in college basketball. Thirty-one conferences, thirty-one swings at something that feels just plausible enough to imagine and just

The coaching profession is a brutal one, requiring plenty of sleepless nights and hours poring over film to try to find an edge. Dan Hurley knows this better than anyone, and he's outwardly as maniac...

Poise has been the best word to describe Arizona all season long. No matter what challenges the Wildcats faced, no matter what was working and what wasn't, they kept their cool. They didn't flinch. ...

Dan Hurley sauntered up to his postgame press conference with a half-smile on his face, knowing his team had just earned the right to play for their third national championship in four seasons. These...

Every great team has a star, and those that reach the Final Four usually have several. However, the teams that advance while others fall in the Sweet 16 or Elite Eight often possess something extra: a...

If there is a team in this year's Final Four that wasn't supposed to be here, it's UConn. And yes, I understand that's an absurd thing to say about a program that has won two of the last three nation...

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The West Region has been the region filled with the most fun. It gave us the closest thing we've had in this tournament to Cinderella in High Point, who was only a few minutes away from advancing to t...

For a brief moment late Saturday night, it felt like March was finally about to turn mad. Sometime after 11:30 p.m., with Arkansas clinging to a two-point lead in the closing minutes of its Round of ...

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