Just how much can we take away from the No. 7 Oklahoma State Cowboys' 30-29 win over the No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies? Lots.Just start with how much this game means in the national title picture. Any time two top-10 teams play, one team is going to lose and watch their championship dreams take a massive hit, while the other cements their name in the national title conversation.Obviously, Oklahoma State still has to take on ...

Even in the midst of the 2011 college football season, it is never too early to talk about college hoops.Many of the last season's top players in the nation chose to stick around for another campaign in order to improve their respective draft stocks or to take another crack at the National Championship.Begin Slideshow

If there is a universal truth among coaches, it is that every fan is the world's greatest coach sitting in the La-Z-Boy the morning following the big game. Now mind you, among prep coaches, there is one aphorism that supersedes this one. It is that the very best line up that one could possibly ever play is "my boy" (son) and the next best however many players there may be in that game (sport-specific) . Regardless, ...

With Andre Drummond's enrollment at UConn is it possible that they are now the preseason No. 1-ranked team? They are the defending champions. Coach Calhoun only lost one significant player from that championship team and three role players. If we were to do a preseason poll right now, North Carolina and Kentucky would come out on top of UConn all the time. Kentucky has four five-star recruits incoming but experience has to count for something. Terrence Jones ...

With established powers like North Carolina and Kentucky returning NBA-caliber stars, this would seem to be an easy year for preseason predictions. All the same, few things are more certain in college basketball than that some of the tournament’s most dangerous teams will have arrived from off the preseason radar. It’s easy to overlook a team like Purdue that’s just lost two seniors with the ability of E’Twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson. The Big Ten, ...

The North Carolina Tar Heels and Kentucky Wildcats are the top two college basketball teams in the nation. In order to see who is the true No. 1, we are going compare each team position-by-position.These two teams have been aided by excellent recruiting classes over the last two years, and they are on a different level than the rest of the NCAA.Roy Williams and John Calipari have landed some of ...

Even with college football kicking into high gear, it is never too soon for a Spartan fan to start thinking about March.The Michigan State Spartans' 2011-12 season schedule was released yesterday and the number one thing that stands out is the amount of traveling the men in green will endure.Sparty and company will visit both coastlines (the west coast twice) before Big Ten play begins.Seniors Draymond Green and Delvon Roe will need to lead the way for ...

ESPN asked their writers and contributors to compile a list of their favourite arenas and no one picked the Dean E. Smith Center, affectionately known as the Dean Dome. Allen Fieldhouse, home of the Kansas Jayhawks and Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke, were the favourites. NBA legends like Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse all played for the Tar Heels. Not to mention North Carolina is a perennial contender (forget the Doherty years). Sadly, the Dean Dome opened in 1986, two years after ...

Morehead State’s NCAA tournament splash last March gave fans a chance to appreciate one of college basketball’s all-time great rebounders, Kenneth Faried. Faried is headed to the Denver Nuggets, but the college game still has its share of forwards who know how to pound the glass. Like Faried, some of the best rebounders find themselves at some of the least known schools. Others, like Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, are front and center in the discussions for ...

Ohio State Buckeyes Men's Basketball is one of the most successful programs in college hoops over the last several years. Thad Matta has posted a 190-57 record in his first seven years as the OSU head coach. He has led the Buckeyes to four Big Ten regular season championships, three (2007, 2010 and 2011) Big Ten Tournament titles, a runner up finish in the 2007 NCAA Tournament and the 2008 NIT Championship. That's gettin' it done! Last season, the ...