North Carolina's 2014 recruiting season has been a work of art. The early verbal commitments of Joel Berry, Justin Jackson and Theo Pinson have propelled the Tar Heels to the top of the class rankings, according to ESPN (subscription required). If Roy Williams can find another scorer in the form of a shooting guard, this class has the potential to rank among the best he has assembled at UNC. The competition will be quite stiff, however. In 2006, ...

How early is too early to start attempting to formulate a vision of who will make the All-ACC team? Well, we’ve made it to August so that seems long enough to wait. All-ACC honors have always been difficult to garner. With the addition of Syracuse, Pitt and Notre Dame there’s even greater competition to earn the honor of being one of the conference’s top five players. The upcoming season is going to be extremely interesting, not just ...

The Indiana Hoosiers are coming off of their first outright Big Ten Championship since 1993, and there will continue to be high expectations for the future despite the loss of seven players from last season's roster.  Tom Crean has put together another highly touted recruiting class for the second year in a row. Last year's four-player freshman class was ranked 11th by ESPN—Yogi Ferrell, Jeremy Hollowell, Hanner Mosquera-Perea and Peter Jurkin. This year's incoming freshmen topped that combination and was ranked fourth ...

Six players with 4-star or better credentials are being heavily recruited by Michigan State.  But there are just three scholarships.  Nonetheless, the Spartans stand to reel in a true blue chip who is capable of immediately contributing on both ends.  Tom Izzo has extended offers to players such as Jahlil Okafor, Cliff Alexander, Devin Booker, Tyus Jones and Kevon Looney, among others. His chances of getting one of his program's next greats look favorable. Begin Slideshow

Without sixth man Luke Hancock, Louisville does not win the national title in 2013.  Hancock proved the value of the sixth man in Atlanta. His contribution—42 points in the semis and title game—was what we have come to value most in that role: a score-first guard off the bench. Other coaches prefer to use the spot for an elite defender or a third big man.   These 10 players do not all look like each other, but they ...

With actual games still multiple months away, college basketball coaches are focused on accumulating their 2014 recruiting classes. While some schools have gotten off to an early start (Ohio State, BYU and Arizona State all have four commitments already), many have plenty of scholarships available to hand out (Kentucky and Duke only have one commit each, while Kansas doesn’t have a single one yet). With powerhouse programs on the prowl, the remaining 13 uncommitted 5-star prospects (per ...

Clifton Garrett is one of the nation's top prospects in the 2014 recruiting class. He's also an enthusiastic and savvy Twitter user, having Tweeted more than 16,000 times. In that way, he's a typical Generation Y college football recruit.   When today's college football coaches and administrators were growing up, teenagers had to keep a journal to record the daily happenings in their lives. Millennial recruits are also doing the same, only in 140-character bursts on their very ...

The clues are everywhere, but they're subtle.  Just like the other 119 teams in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision, the South Carolina Gamecocks will play 11 games in the 2013 regular season. But already the one getting the most national attention is their showdown with the Georgia Bulldogs, scheduled for Saturday, September 7.      ESPN: The Magazine's "2013 College Football Preview," which hit newsstands Friday, diplomatically positions South Carolina and Georgia as "tied" for sixth place in ...

On Thursday, the San Diego Chargers took on the Seattle Seahawks in their first NFL preseason game. Manti Te'o suited up for the Chargers, while Golden Tate looked on from the opposing sideline. One Notre Dame fan came prepared with a custom jersey. Thanks go to College Spun for the photos.  Read more College Football news on BleacherReport.com

To Alabama football fans, Nick Saban is in a world of his own. The man who has led the Crimson Tide to back-to-back BCS National Championships and fostered the team's first Heisman Trophy winner in the process already has a statue in his honor. That's why this should come as no surprise. But that doesn't mean it's not funny. When word apparently broke that Coach Saban would be signing autographs, the race was on. Crimson Tide fan ...