There are basketball players every year like Shabazz Muhammad and Nerlens Noel, who will certainly be donning their college jerseys for one year and then heading straight to the NBA.  But, some players feel they can use their time in college to develop their game for the next level. Those players obviously aren't looking for stardom just yet, and it could take them some time to get there. Certain freshmen are under-the-radar because they get overshadowed by ...

Rick Pitino had said many times over the past couple years that he was planning on retiring in 2017 (via Matt Norlander of CBS Sports), but things seemed to have changed.The 60 year-old Pitino, who has been a collegiate coach for 27 years, will end his career at the University of Louisville.Pitino has an all-time record of 629-234. In 11 years at Louisville, he has a record of 275-106. He also coached six years ...

The utter dominance of former Kentucky superstar Anthony Davis left little room for anyone to debate college basketball's player of the year in 2011-12.Expect this season's chase for the Naismith Award to be a much more heated race.Shabazz Muhammad and Nerlens Noel headline a crop of talented freshmen primed to shake up the college basketball landscape this season. Before any newbie can take home the hardware, however, he must outshine some of the game's more ...

The AP Preseason Top 25 poll was released last week. While that is of course notable news in the college basketball world, the real fun begins when we take a look at it and determine who is getting too much credit and who is not getting enough. Read on to see four teams that are currently ranked in the AP Top 25 but are not ranked high enough. There are certainly teams that were not ...

College basketball history has no shortage of moments that made fans say, “Wow!” Sometimes, though, the only reasonable response to the events on the floor (or off it) is “What?” One recent example of a thoroughly mystifying decision came courtesy of former Pitt Panther Nasir Robinson. With his team locked in a tie game with Butler in the 2011 NCAA tournament, Robinson committed a last-second foul that served no possible purpose…except to lose the game ...

Several college basketball programs are now training their players through some not-so-conventional means in hopes of reaching a new state of mental toughness. If your own personal routine of TV-remote-control deadlifts, recliner leg lifts and bottom-shelf-of-the-fridge-reaching squats did not get you in the best physical and mental shape of your life this past year, read on to learn about some college basketball strength conditioning workouts that may do just that. To do these workouts you ...

It's fair to deem the University of Utah Men's Basketball 2011-12 season, well, horrid.The Runnin' Utes put up an all-time school-low record of 6-25. Amazingly, they finished second to last in the Pac-12 standings, thanks to USC.Many factors played into the almost comically poor production on the hardwood, including a first-year head coach Larry Krystkowiak, just four total returners and the mid-season dismissal of the team's top scorer and assist leader Josh Watkins.Utes basketball fans, who had become ...

Tennessee received one first-place vote to win the SEC in 2012-13. A majority of the media at SEC media day predicted the Kentucky Wildcats, Missouri Tigers and Florida Gators to beat the Volunteers next season.The Volunteers are pegged as the fourth-best team in the conference by voters across the nation as well. Kentucky, Florida and Missouri are all ranked in the preseason AP Top 25, and Tennessee is on the outside looking in.But why?As the ...

The No. 1 team in the nation heading into the 2012-13 season is the Indiana Hoosiers. Head coach Tom Crean has national player of the year favorite, Cody Zeller, returning with nearly every starter from his Sweet 16 team from last year.Throw in a strong recruiting class, and it goes without saying that Indiana is well deserving of the hype they are currently receiving. The team with the best odds to win the 2013 national ...

Coming into Notre Dame’s game against Oklahoma, Manti Te’o was thought to be a favorite to make the finals list of Heisman Trophy candidates. However, this amazing diving interception not only locked up the Irish’s victory over the Sooners, it also locked up Te’o’s chances to be a Heisman finalist.  As you can see in the video, Te’o had a little bit of luck in being able to make this highlight-reel catch.  If it isn’t ...