With both Conference Finals currently underway, the NBA’s postseason continues to press on for the four teams that remain. However, for those teams that fell short of the postseason, few opportunities for optimism have presented themselves since the regular season ended. All that could change this week. With the NBA draft lottery set to be held Wednesday night, teams that missed the playoffs can step up the healing process by learning their draft positions and, ...

With a dazzling recruiting class set to re-energize Arizona basketball, it’s an ideal time to look back at the ranks of the Wildcat greats the incoming freshmen are hoping to join. Arizona has accumulated quite a collection of stars (especially for a program that didn't win its first NCAA tournament game until 1976), and 41 of them have gone on to play in the NBA.  The most recent addition to that pantheon was 2011 NCAA ...

The NCAA recently declared that it was investigating prized Kentucky Wildcats’ recruit Nerlens Noel. For a program still celebrating a national championship, a Player of the Year award and possible first and second picks in the upcoming NBA draft, the question is whether or not this investigation is putting a damper on their joy.  In short, the answer is no. Kentucky and coach John Calipari have been through their fair share of NCAA investigations. The ...

The coach carousel is practically over. All the big fires and hires have been made, although a pair of schools, Brown and Mississippi Valley State, remain without a head coach.All in all, 45 schools went searching for a new captain to take the helm this offseason. Among the most notable were Frank Martin bolting from Kansas State for South Carolina, Illinois settling for John Groce, and Larry Brown making a return to college basketball after ...

If you are going to pull off an epic come-from-behind victory, you might as well do it with the rarest of style and panache. Vanderbilt pulled off one of the rarest of feats: the triple steal. This is such a magical moment because it takes so many things working together to pull this off. You need three men on, they all need to be swift of foot and the opposition has to pretty much go on siesta ...

Not many months ago the Big 12 conference was considered to be on the brink of disaster. Now, it is one of the premier conferences in the nation and multiple schools are looking to throw their hats into the pool for admission into the club. The most active rumors hail from Tallahassee, Florida, where Florida State has neither confirmed nor denied, in a confusing manner, whether or not the Seminoles are interested in joining the ...

Just a couple of weeks ago the Vanderbilt Commodores were in serious danger of missing the NCAA tournament altogether, but a strong schedule towards the end saved their season from ending in disappointing fashion. The Commodores will now make their 11th appearance to college baseball's NCAA Tournament. Before losing to red hot Mississippi State in the SEC tournament final, the Commodores had won 12 of their last 13 games, including wins over South Carolina, LSU and Florida. Now ...

It's no secret that pitching wins championships, and no one proved that better than Mississippi State's baseball team this weekend. The Bulldogs rolled over Vanderbilt for a 3-0 win on Sunday to win the SEC championship—their first since 2005—behind a stellar pitching performance by Ross Mitchell. The situation couldn't be any better for Mississippi State, which enters the NCAA tournament on the heels of eight wins in their last nine games. You can imagine how ...

The Runnin’ Rebels of Las Vegas continue to impress many around the college basketball world.  The team, led by head coach Dave Rice, strives to be more than a first-round team in the NCAA tournament.  UNLV hopes to dance a bit further this upcoming season, and fortunately, the team has added much-needed backup.  Whether the additions are out of high school or are transfers, the punch that the Rebels pack stirs with deadly force. Recent ...

Devastating. Disappointing. Forgettable.Words that often surface when discussing the 2011-2012 season in review. After coming off their stellar 2010-2011 Elite 8 run, the following season never left the starting gates. The hype would only recycle itself as the Cats would wind up in the preseason rankings, sitting at No. 16. The polls wound up affecting their play, as they were quick to point out, 16 was far too lofty of an expectation. Depth appears to ...