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Kentucky Wildcats Place Three Freshmen on Naismith Award Watch List

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The watch list for the Naismith Award, honoring the nation's top college basketball player, was release today. The Kentucky Wildcats and North Carolina Tar Heels lead the way, as each school had four players make the short list. For UK, three of them are freshmen from their soon-to-be-legendary recruiting class: Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Marquis Teague. All … [Read more...] about Kentucky Wildcats Place Three Freshmen on Naismith Award Watch List

Preseason All-America Hoops Team Released; Buckeyes Sullinger Only Unanimous Choice

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The Big Ten conference as a whole may take a step backward this college basketball season, but their star power will remain high this hoops season. The AP All-American preseason first team was released a few short hours ago, and the league made a very tremendous impact on that very short list. Ohio State's Jared Sullinger was the only unanimous choice of the 65-member … [Read more...] about Preseason All-America Hoops Team Released; Buckeyes Sullinger Only Unanimous Choice

Rapper Fabolous to Rock Penn St. Midnight Madness Event

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Snoop Dogg played the Northwestern Midnight Madness event last year. This year another struggling Big Ten program booked an MC to their college basketball party. “Hoops Madness” at Penn State will feature a special performance by top selling rap artist Fabolous. The Brooklyn-born Fabolous has two Grammy nominations and three million in album sales to his credit. His debut … [Read more...] about Rapper Fabolous to Rock Penn St. Midnight Madness Event

Butler Projected to Win Horizon League, Two Chicago Teams Picked at Bottom

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For the third consecutive year, Butler has been picked as the Horizon League favorite in the annual preseason poll of league coaches, media and SIDs. Makes sense given how they're coming off back to back national title game appearances, and have been far and away the class of the HL the past three college basketball seasons. (Also the only mid-major to earn their own Category … [Read more...] about Butler Projected to Win Horizon League, Two Chicago Teams Picked at Bottom

College Hoops Midnight Madness: Origins, Traditions, Current Highlights

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You know what today is? The official start of college basketball season as Midnight Madness gets underway at numerous schools all across the country. Madness is an annual event on college campuses celebrating the first day in mid-October that the NCAA permits formal, official basketball practices. The event's name originates from those specific events that start at midnight- … [Read more...] about College Hoops Midnight Madness: Origins, Traditions, Current Highlights

2011-12 Basketball ESPN College GameDay On-Site Schedule

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2011-12 ESPN College GameDay/Saturday Primetime Schedule Jan 14: North Carolina @ Florida State (Game at 2pm ET) Jan 21: Louisville @ Pittsburgh (Game at 9pm ET) Jan 28: Washington @ Arizona (Game at 7pm ET) Feb 4: Kansas @ Missouri (Game at 9pm ET) Feb 11: Kentucky @ Vanderbilt (Game at 9pm ET) Feb 18: Ohio State @ Michigan (Game at 9pm ET) Feb 25: … [Read more...] about 2011-12 Basketball ESPN College GameDay On-Site Schedule

Casting My USA Basketball Writers Association Awards Ballot

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A secret ballot? Nah, when it comes to college basketball, I'll shout my opinions and evaluations from the mountain top. I've covered a lot of teams both in the Big Ten and the Big East this past season: Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame and DePaul, so let's begin. We start by choosing my District: V. of course, covering Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and … [Read more...] about Casting My USA Basketball Writers Association Awards Ballot

College Basketball Officially Begins Tonight

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345 NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams begin their journey on the road they hope will culminate at the Final Four, as official practices will be conducted all across the country this weekend. Many teams and their fans will gather across the country in arenas late Friday night to celebrate Midnight Madness, the annual celebration that marks the start to the season.  … [Read more...] about College Basketball Officially Begins Tonight