Soloman Alabi should have had a field day against an undersized Iona roster. Instead the seven footer struggled mightily to the tune of only six points on 1-of-7 shooting and four free throws...
ORLANDO-- Some teams are built to succeed even when their best players struggle. Michigan is not one of them. Let's face it, Michigan isn't going to score easily if Manny Harris isn't in the game or even just creating...
Syracuse Strives to Knock off National Champ for Second Consecutive Year Last season, an up-and-coming Syracuse team went to Kansas City, made an unthinkable comeback, and eventually sent the ...
Losing an early non-conference game against a mid-major can be an early death sentence for some teams, but for others it can just be a blip on a radar soon forgotten...
A few weeks after voting Kansas as the No. 1 team in the country, 14 Bleacher Report writers once again ranked the Jayhawks first in almost near unanimous fashion...
Kansas entered the season as the top team in the country, and one week into the season, the Jayhawks didn't disappoint. Bill Self's team dominated its opening game against a tough Hofstra team...
The talk of college basketball made his decision on where he's going to play college ball. Harrison Barnes ended one of the top recruiting circuses of the season with an announcement to play basketball at North Carolina...
It's been well documented that college basketball doesn't really have an "opening day" or in this weekend's case, there are few games that make for a riveting "opening weekend." There are a few notable games that highlight this week's weekend rundown...
You can't see past them. You can't get around them. You can't shoot over them. "Them," of course, refers to the Syracuse Orange defense that has smothered its first two opponents into submission...
The roster turnover at North Carolina and Syracuse has radically changed the way the Tar Heels and the Orange operate on the hardwood...
I've posted most of my projections on my Twitter page, but I'm publishing them as well to have something tangible at the end of the season...
Pretty much the same premise as last year's article: The following statements can be debated, argued, and squabbled over, but in the end the counterarguments against them aren't strong enough to make the statement debatable...
Kansas, as the heavy favorite, projects to receive the top overall seed in the 2010 NCAA Tournament and should stay on that top seed line throughout the season...
The Big East underwent an incredible amount of plastic surgery during the offseason after the majority of the league's best players graduated or left to play professional basketball...
Bleacher Report writers have put together an extensive preview of the upcoming college basketball season. Below are the links to every preview written for the 2009-2010 season...
Several coaches at high-profile major conference teams will be relying on freshmen and transfers to turn their programs around this year...
The two most important positions bookend a basketball court. The point guard runs the offense while the center is the defense's last line of defense...
There has been an extraordinary amount of turnover in college basketball during the offseason. Last year's preseason list of top wings in the country perfectly exemplifies the changing of the guard (or wing, if you want to be literal in this case)...
The Pac-10 has as many NCAA Tournament-worthy teams on paper in the preseason as the Atlantic-10. California and Washington are bound for the tournament, and UCLA has lots of young talent but is no sure bet to go dancing...
Baylor The future looked so bright for Baylor basketball last season. An NCAA Tournament team returned the majority of its talent and was poised to play well into March...
Every year several top 25 teams inexplicably fall apart and don't live up to expectations. Last season, UCLA, Notre Dame, and Tennessee all entered the season as preseason top 15 teams, but none of them fit the bill as elite teams...
Bleacher Report's College Basketball writers ranked the top 25 teams in the nation. If you are interested in participating in future polls, e-mail me at jamesonfleming@gmail.com to receive a ballot...
The year was 1998 and for the first time in a generation the government had a budget surplus. Countless graduates of Ivy League schools played a major role in turning American economics around...
One single freshman can catapult a team from the NIT deep into the NCAA Tournament. Sometimes, just one freshman is the final piece to a Final Four team. Other times, an entire starting lineup of first year players makes a team elite...
Compare a top seven of Jonny Flynn, Eric Devendorf, Paul Harris, Andy Rautins, Wesley Johnson, Rick Jackson, and Arinze Onuaku to any roster in America and it's debatable whether you could find a group of players better than that...
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