Syracuse basketball is primed for big things next season.In 2011-'12, the Orange had one of the strangest seasons in recent memory.Thirty regular season wins.Six weeks as the No. 1 team in the nation.A 35-year assistant coach fired after molestation allegations.A star seven-footer ruled ineligible for the NCAA tournament without explicit reason.A self-reported violation of university drug policy by past players.And a run to the Elite Eight.Most of the time, controversy and distractions off the court ...

Devonta Pollard is one of the top-ranked recruits in the class of 2012, but unlike many of his fellow high school stars, Pollard is still undecided on which school he will attend in the fall.However, according to Adam Zagoria via zagsblog.com, Pollard has narrowed down his school choices to Texas, Alabama, Georgetown and Missouri. The final deadline in the NCAA signing period was May 16th, but there's no penalty for extending his decision beyond it, ...

Anthony Davis may be off to the NBA Draft, but he was far from the only extraordinary freshman in college hoops last year. Many of the most exciting players in the country next season will be members of a rising sophomore class that still has talent to spare, even after one-and-dones like Davis have departed. One member of that group who’s only begun to show what he can do is North Carolina’s James Michael McAdoo. ...

John Calipari's coaching style makes projecting a starting lineup simple. He's most comfortable with six- or seven-man rotations, and the lack of depth in 2012-13 makes my job that much easier.With the 2012-13 roster all but set in stone, we can now get a glimpse of a squad that looks to be the first Kentucky team to repeat as national champions since the days of Adolph Rupp.Correctly naming all five starters can be a challenge, ...

College basketball fans in the state of Indiana will continue receiving a winter treat.The Crossroads Classic, a one-day doubleheader pitting Hoosier State basketball heavyweights Purdue and Indiana against rivals Notre Dame and Butler, has been extended for two more seasons, the Indianapolis Star reported earlier this week.The event illustrates the sheer power of basketball in the state of Indiana, as few other states in America have four programs of similar stature who aren't all conference ...

Rotnei Clarke is one of the best three-point shooters in college basketball.In three years at Arkansas, Clarke hit 274-of-653 (42 percent) shots from beyond the arc.Two-thirds of his shots from the field were three-point attempts.It's no big surprise that Clarke has also been a sharp-shooter from the free throw line, knocking down 86.3 percent of his FTs.He led the Razorbacks in scoring (15.2 ppg) as a junior, and grabbed national media attention for dropping ...

Momentum stings everything in its path.The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets completed their improbable postseason run by knocking off the Miami Hurricanes in the 2012 ACC Tournament Championship. Not only did they guarantee themselves a spot in college baseball’s Big Dance, but they also guaranteed the fact that their opponents will be bracing themselves the rest of the year. Georgia Tech won four straight games to take home the tourney crown. They entered with the No. ...

Mississippi State is off to a flying start on the road to Omaha, with an SEC Baseball Tournament championship firmly in hand.The 24th-ranked Bulldogs (according to Baseball America) battled their way through the toughest conference tourney in college baseball, beating Arkansas, LSU and Kentucky (twice) before vanquishing a surprising Vanderbilt squad in the final on Sunday, 3-0.The win gives MSU its seventh conference tournament title and first since 2005, securing a second consecutive berth in ...

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets showed just how deep the ACC is with their conference tournament victory as a No. 8 seed.Manager Danny Hall's team beat the Miami Hurricanes 8-5 in Sunday's game, in an impressive victory over the team they beat at the end of the regular season to secure a spot in this conference tournament.The Yellow Jackets had a rough go at it this season, suffering numerous injuries and a tough schedule (RPI: ...

Mississippi State beat Vanderbilt 3-0 in the SEC Championship game to complete its rampage through the conference tournament.It was another dominant performance by the Bulldogs, who couldn't have picked a better time to play their best ball of the season.Although their conference record (17-14) isn't overly impressive, Mississippi State flipped the switch at the perfect time. They've won nine of their last 10 games, and they avenged their only loss during that span by eliminating ...