Category: College Basketball
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Most of the quarterback talk heading into the NFL Draft will be on focused on Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. As it should be -- they are the undisputed top two overall picks. But, as is the case most years, there are some other interesting options out there for ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
Former Kansas assistant coach Danny Manning has signed on to become the next head coach of men's basketball at the University of Tulsa. Manning knows the history behind some elite head coaches starting their careers at Tulsa. Tubby Smith, Nolan Richardson and former boss Bill Self all coached at Tulsa ...
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
During his time at Ohio State, Jared Sullinger led Ohio State to back-to-back 30 win seasons and two Big Ten regular season championships. He was selected as a First Team All-American two straight years, and after leading the Buckeyes to the Final Four this season, Jared Sullinger showed that he ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Kentucky hadn't even won the national championship game Monday night and coach John Calipari was already hearing the rumors that after they did win he'd head to the NBA. When the Wildcats did pull it off, winning Calipari his first title and the program's eighth overall, those rumors only escalated.
Calipari ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
When John Calipari arrived in Kentucky he had one goal in mind and that was to bring the Kentucky basketball program back to prominence and compete for National Championships. Mission accomplished. After falling short a few times recently, this year belonged to the Wildcats. They were the best team in ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
It didn't take Bruce Weber long to find a new home. In fact, it sounds like he had his pick of the litter. The Illinois coach was fired immediately after his team bowed out of the Big Ten tournament last month, but he says calls starting heating up about new ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
The biggest stage in college basketball is set for tonight when Kentucky will take on Kansas for the national championship. The nation's best player, however, is doing his best to treat it like any other game. Anthony Davis says he and the Wildcats are preaching that they need to simply ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Despite a slew of upsets and surprises early in the NCAA tournament, two of the most successful programs in college basketball history are meeting for the national title tonight in New Orleans. Top-seeded Kentucky has enjoyed an easier ride to the final, which is why the Wildcats are an obvious ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Suspensions, injuries, departures, losses and an article in Sports Illustrated that delved into it all. That's pretty much what UCLA coach Ben Howland had to deal with this past season. By season's end, Howland's team went 19-14 and didn't make the postseason.
Despite it all, Howland says in the following interview ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Shaka Smart decided not to take the job at Illinois and Brad Stevens wasn't even ready to say that he was contacted by the folks with the Fighting Illini. After a bit of a process and much public debate about whether or not the job was still considered an elite-level ...
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