There comes a time in late November, around the same instant you're picking out your Thanksgiving turkey at the grocery store, when you get a familiar craving. However, it's not one of field turf and pigskin but one of hardwood and nylon. Maybe you've been to your favorite team's Midnight Madness. Maybe you saw them beat Towson by 50 points in their first regular season game. But what you're really missing are meaningful games that ...

The Florida Gators have made the Elite Eight for the past two seasons, and they are a good enough team to do the same or better in the 2012-13 college basketball season. However, the Gators must get through their rough conference schedule before they can even think about the NCAA tournament. Although the season has not even started, let's predict the Gators' 2012 conference record. Here is a look at their schedule for the 2012-13 college ...

Every year, some of the top college basketball prospects come from junior colleges.Last year, Baylor's PG, Pierre Jackson, made a seamless transition from playing at College of Southern Idaho to running the show for the Bears.Jae Crowder developed at Howard Junior College in Big Spring, Texas, before he starred at Marquette.Ricardo Ratliffe moved from dominating at College of Central Florida to being one of the best frontcourt players in the Big 12 for Missouri.The following ...

First it was 20-3 in the first half. Then 27-10 early in the third quarter. Nebraska didn't panic. You saw adjustments, but you didn't see any wholesale changes. All you saw was Nebraska staying Nebraska.And you saw one heck of a comeback as a result.Nebraska scored the last 20 points of the game in a 30-27 comeback stunner as Wisconsin stumbled down the stretch in both teams' Big Ten openers. Taylor Martinez led the resurgence ...

There is some good news and bad news for Texas Longhorn fans after their 41-36 win over Oklahoma State. The good news: You've got yourself a quarterback.The bad news: Your defense has more holes than a chain-link fence.Sure, Oklahoma State has a prolific offense. But Arizona, a 4-8 team last year, must be feeling pretty good that it only allowed 38 points in its 59-38 spanking of the Cowboys. One or two plays where the defense gives ...

Overcoming a 13-0 deficit against reigning conference champion Arkansas State is hard enough to accomplish. Doing that without your starting quarterback? Even harder. The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers did just that though, thanks to the impressive performance from backup quarterback James Mauro. After starting QB Kawaun Jakes suffered an injury to his left knee late in the second quarter and was unable to return to the game, WKU turned to Mauro to start off the second half of play. Only seeing action ...

The No. 22 Nebraska Cornhuskers needed their second-biggest comeback in school history to stave off an upset by Big Ten rivals the Wisconsin Badgers.After a star Badgers running back bobbled the hand off, and ultimately lost the ball, on a 4th-and-1 with less than two minutes, all that was left was for the Cornhuskers to lock in the 30-27 road victory was a couple of kneel-down plays.That was an outcome that 25-football minutes earlier seemed ...

Alabama redshirt sophomore wideout DeAndrew White suffered a right knee injury in the first quarter against Ole Miss, and this creates a scenario with mixed emotions for the Tide and their fans.At this time there is no information beyond the fact that he will not return to the game against the Rebels, but more often than not knee injuries are more than one-week affairs. White is one of the Tide's leading receivers and is tied for ...

The Louisiana State Tigers earned their fifth victory of the season Saturday night, but defeating the Towson Tigers 38-22 was way more difficult than it should have been.If it's possible to have an embarrassing win, this was it.Towson hails from the Colonial Athletic Association. This was essentially a scrimmage for LSU, or at least it was supposed to be. Instead, the LSU Tigers found themselves in a game.This game was closer than expected for multiple ...

At the end of the first half, I was preparing to dethaw some crow and fire up the grill. Kentucky was leading 17-7 and everything seemed to be going their way. Unfortunately, the superior talent on South Carolina was too much for UK in the second half. The GoodDespite an ugly stat line (12-for-23, 114 yards, 2 INT), true freshman quarterback Jalen Whitlow displayed a lot of promise when he was forced into service due to ...