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5 Teams That Drove Their Fans Insane This Season

The realization should dawn on you by now: The college basketball regular season is almost over. This is the final week of regular-season play for many smaller (one-bid) conferences, and there are only two weeks left before the power conferences begin their tournaments. We’re only 20 days away from Selection Sunday, six days away from […]

The Kansas-West Virginia Game Could Change College Basketball In Two Big Ways

Monday’s Kansas-West Virginia game is, like many other single games in a season with thousands of them, receding into memory. If Iowa State can surge in the next few weeks, the Mountaineers’ upset of the Jayhawks might affect the final Big 12 standings and become more memorable in the course of time. Yet, for fans […]

The Top 5 College Basketball Stories From Saturday, February 14

We’re four weeks from Selection Sunday, March 15. Saturday’s results in college basketball set up a number of big bubble games this next week, although the next Saturday on the slate, Feb. 21, is noticeably devoid of big contests. Here are just some of the details worth taking from a plot twist-laden Saturday: * 5 […]

Bowl Season: 10 Teams That Made The Strongest Impressions

Before the bowls, we explored the idea of which games meant more to each team; which games mattered to one team in particular; and which games were going to be more central as revealers of conference strength. Now that the bowls are over, though, there’s another exercise to engage in — judging the bowls based […]

Bowl Season: College Football Still Doesn’t Know How To Assess Bowl Games

Now that all the power-conference bowls are over (there’s still the GoDaddy Bowl between Toledo and Arkansas State), what can and should be said about the bowls? You’ll get many different opinions on the subject. Some will say that the bowls — as non-conference games with plenty of time for the coaches and players to […]

Alamo Bowl: Jim Mora, Bill Snyder, And HandshakeGate — The Images You Need To See

You’ve probably heard something about the Jim Mora-Bill Snyder episode at the end of the Alamo Bowl on Friday, won by UCLA over Kansas State. Here are the three relevant images from that larger drama. The play which angered Mora: The first blow-by handshake from Mora: Then, the circle-back reunion with Snyder, involving a longer […]

Baylor, which was torn to shreds by UCF in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl, badly needs to beat Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl — not only to bolster the Big 12 in comparison with the Big Ten, but to avoid an 0-for-2 albatross in premium postseason contests.

Forget The Playoff For A Moment: Baylor Is The Big 12 Champion… If History is Any Measure

The Baylor Bears defeated the Kansas State Wildcats on Saturday night in Waco, Texas, to finish with an 8-1 Big 12 record, atop the conference standings alongside the TCU Horned Frogs. You might have heard this at some point in the past week: Baylor beat TCU head-to-head. The score was 61-58. Just wanted to make […]

TCU Crushes Texas To Set Up An 11-1 Season, And It Feels Like 2011 Again

Remember the 2011 college football season? It was atypical in that it provided a regular-season rematch in the BCS National Championship Game (Alabama-LSU in the Superdome), but it was a rather normal season in this respect: The TCU Horned Frogs won a conference championship. This represented normal business for head coach Gary Patterson and the […]

2014 Maui Invitational Preview: Can Anyone Stop Arizona?

The Maui Invitational has long been the most prestigious and famous tournament during the nonconference season. With moments like Chaminade’s upset over Ralph Sampson led Virginia, or Adam Morrison’s performance in the 2005 Maui Invitational, the tournament has grown into the invitation all schools hope to receive. The weather sure doesn’t hurt either, I bet. […]

Jake Waters and the rest of the Kansas State offense were noticeably sluggish against Iowa State. This Thursday, the Wildcats expect to play several notches better than they did against the Cyclones, and that’s merely a starting point for the showdown against Auburn. KSU must at least come close to its best performance. Anything average from the Wildcats, especially on offense, will almost certainly lead to a loss against Auburn’s turbocharged “Gus Bus.”

Kansas State And West Virginia Play This Thursday Night: What Does It Mean For The Big 12?

The coming Saturday of games in college football is the annual SEC Cupcake Saturday (Non-) Showcase. This takes the air out of the balloon as far as the season is concerned. However, Thursday offers two highly important games: North Carolina-Duke in the ACC Coastal is one. The centerpiece, though, is a Big 12 showdown between […]

John Beilein is a freakin’ wizard, and Zak Irvin might be the newest breakout player at Michigan who will cast a spell over Big Ten opponents this season.

College Basketball Preview: Potential Breakout Sophomores

With one and dones becoming such a prevalent part of major college basketball these days, we often forget there are a lot of elite recruits, and sometimes not so elite recruits, that blossom as sophomores to become one of the best players on their respective teams. This season should be no different, as there are […]

Texas A&M winning, or Auburn losing — which matters more in evaluating the SEC? That’s another topic to argue about in the days and weeks ahead.

The Big 12 Versus The SEC West: One Side Has The Advantage, But The Other Gets More Chances To Change The Debate

Rivalry Week is a few weeks away in college football, but “Scenario Week” is here. After the six top-25 games of Nov. 8 sorted out a lot of issues in college football but created several new problems, it’s necessary to deal with various scenarios one by one. A particularly interesting hypothetical — one which could […]

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