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If you wanted a big revelation from Saturday, you didn’t get it

In the course of time, the Big 12-SEC Challenge could very easily become an event which reshapes several college basketball seasons. We could sit here in April and realize how much this midseason event — staged in the middle of the conference season — altered the trajectory of a crazy college basketball campaign. Right now, […]

Discovery Saturday: We get to find out a lot about several teams

Yes, Saturday’s Big 12-SEC Challenge is a day for improving resumes and gaining NCAA tournament leverage. LSU, Florida, Georgia, Texas Tech, Texas, Vanderbilt — they could all significantly improve their standing to varying degrees. It is a day to burnish the nitty-gritty profile, with January about to end and March coming ever closer. However, the […]

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The amount of attention you should pay to top-25 rankings? Zero is a high percentage

When the NCAA tournament ends, Jim Nantz tells us about “a tradition unlike any other.” Before the NCAA tournament begins, we are being brought in touch with the possibility that this edition of March Madness could be unlike any other. After Wednesday night’s events, which featured Michigan State’s home-court loss to surging Nebraska (the Huskers […]

New year, old result: Kansas wins a Big 12 epic at home

The Kansas Jayhawks don’t wear any green. They don’t play on a parquet floor. They don’t have a shamrock in their logo. Yet, they really and truly are the Red Auerbach-era Boston Celtics of college basketball. Monday night’s enthralling 109-106 triple-overtime victory over the Oklahoma Sooners, in the 40th 1-versus-2 game in college basketball history, […]

College basketball media roundtable: part I

The Student Section convenes the first part of a college basketball media roundtable, with help from our partners at Awful Announcing. The second installment of this roundtable will be published Tuesday at AA.

Roundtable: the best thing about college basketball

It’s easy to simply say, “The NCAA Tournament,” when asked what’s best about college basketball. However, the sport which will once again become a part of our lives through early April is about more than just the Dance. Yes, casual sports fans view college basketball as a March-only entity, but those who love the sport […]

3 active and amazing college basketball streaks

The new college basketball season begins with a number of amazing streaks intact. In two seasons, Kansas is likely to surpass North Carolina (27, from 1975 through 2001) for the most consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. The Jayhawks sit at 26 and show no signs of slowing down. Currently, Stephen F. Austin is working on a […]

2015 feels a lot like 2007… but will the storm be followed by the calm?

As of Sunday morning — September 27, 2015 — the college football season is still relatively young. A year ago, a wild September was followed by a stability-bearing October and a not-that-crazy November. The march to the first College Football Playoff certainly wasn’t free of clutter or controversy, but that controversy was mostly the making […]

When Bill Callahan came to Nebraska as head coach midway through the first decade of the new century, Nebraska’s defense regularly surrendered video-game point totals. When Colorado posted 62 against Nebraska on Thanksgiving weekend in 2001, the result was hard to put into words… much like “Germany 7, Brazil 1.”

The 10 Longest Bowl Droughts Among Power 5 Schools

With the college football season set to get underway Thursday night, a number of schools have dreams of a conference and in some cases, perhaps a national championship. For some teams however, just making a bowl games would constitute a successful season. Here are the 10 teams from Power 5 conferences with the longest bowl […]

Ranking The Tip Off Marathon Games

Once again, ESPN and its many channels will be broadcasting (more than) 24 hours of college basketball in a row to begin the 2015-’16 season. This will be the eighth year of the tip off marathon and ESPN, and at first glance it looks like one of the best lineups (if not the best lineup) […]

World University Games Triumph Gives Kansas Leg Up For Next Season

The United States won its first gold medal at the World University Games since 2005 on Monday in an effort spearheaded by the Kansas Jayhawks (minus Devonte Graham, who was injured, and Svi Mykhailiuk, Cheick Diallo, and Dwight Coleby, who are not American citizens) plus Nic Moore of SMU and Julian DeBose of Florida Gulf […]

The Most Important Part Of the Big 12-SEC Challenge Is Not The Matchups Themselves

The coming college basketball season has finalized a schedule for the latest Big 12-SEC Challenge. Naturally, the fact that Kentucky and Kansas will meet is the headline story from the event. Wildcats-Jayhawks might receive more publicity than any other non-conference game on the road to the 2016 NCAA Tournament. John Calipari, Bill Self, and two […]

Not-So-Golden Days: 5 Memorable Groups Of Teams That Didn’t Win It All

John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats didn’t win the 2015 national championship, but Calipari won in Lexington in 2012. His groups of great Kentucky teams managed to bring home at least one title when they had a window of opportunity. Several memorably great groups of teams never did bring home a single national crown. On […]

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