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Sports Illustrated November 21, 2001 Grant Wahl |
What's going on in Maui? Let's wait until March before we call my preseason college basketball rankings a joke.  |
Sports Illustrated November 28, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Gilbert is key to Mizzou's hot start Why has Missouri started so well? Credit stars Kareem Rush and Clarence Gilbert for co-existing just fine, with bonus points to Gilbert for taking the leadership role that the quieter Rush tends to avoid...  |
Sports Central November 26, 2007 Seth Doria |
2007 College Basketball Preview A look at players, coaches, conferences and playoff predictions for college basketball teams.  |
Sports Illustrated November 8, 2000 |
Ready for tipoff Our annual season-preview journeys for the mag are always a blast, and for all sorts of reasons. Arizona is king of my preseason college basketball top 20...  |
Sports Illustrated December 19, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Perfect possibilities Examining the chances of seeing an undefeated season by a college basketball team...  |
Sports Central February 5, 2008 Seth Doria |
39 Days to Selection Sunday This week in basketball saw one team step above the rest, others move up or down the ladder of momentum, and some individual performances that make your jaw drop.  |
Sports Illustrated November 15, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Some Top 20 surprises My annual preseason college hoops tour has come to a close, but not without some memorable moments...  |
Sports Central January 15, 2008 Seth Doria |
60 Days to Selection Sunday A look back at the last week in college basketball.  |
Sports Central January 29, 2008 Seth Doria |
46 Days to Selection Sunday A look at the last week in college basketball.  |
Sports Illustrated February 7, 2001 Grant Wahl |
More questions than answers Suddenly, in less than a week, a rash of home-court upsets has turned an orderly season chaotic. Duke loses in Cameron to Carolina? Stanford gets whacked in Maples by UCLA? Kansas bites the dust in Allen to Iowa State? What does it all mean?  |
Sports Central March 11, 2009 Seth Doria |
The NCAA Bubble Shuffle With so many conference championships going on this week, it's easy to lose focus on the few games that hold the most meaning. But there are other games that serve as critical dominos in the dance before The Dance - call it the bubble shuffle.  |
Sports Central January 24, 2008 Seth Doria |
51 Days to Selection Sunday A recap of the past ten days in college hoops.  |
Sports Central March 17, 2011 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: NCAA Tourney Bric-A-Bracketology What happens in the dark room once the NCAA Selection Committee convenes?  |
Sports Central November 22, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
NCAA Men's Hoops About to Get Crazy Ask a diehard NBA fan what the true tragedy of the NBA lockout is, and they'll tell you it comes at the worst possible time.  |
Sports Illustrated February 14, 2001 Grant Wahl |
These jucos flamed out More and more, jucos are seen as legitimate springboards to success in basketball, from Division I to the pros. But four juco players I profiled last year haven't exactly proven that point...  |
Sports Central March 17, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Sports Central's Roundball Roundtable Sports writers compare notes and predictions about college basketball.  |
Salon.com March 26, 2001 King Kaufman |
Throat-grabbing excitement The middle two rounds of the NCAA Tournament have just enough thrills and chills to overshadow the return of Bob Knight...  |
Sports Central October 1, 2005 Alan Rubenstein |
College Basketball's Measure of Success The key to long-term success, it seems, is to have a big-name coach who can recruit nationally and build a big-name program.  |
Sports Illustrated December 13, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Sizing up the unbeatens It hasn't happened since 1976 and it may never happen again, which is why undefeated college basketball teams hold such a mystique for me. See, I want another team run the table, to do something historic...  |
Sports Illustrated December 6, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Taking on the Dukies So I pick Duke to go to the Final Four, and what do I get? Angry, angry e-mails from the Blue Devils faithful...  |
Sports Central February 6, 2007 Seth Doria |
Madness in the Making: Part II Between now and the NFL draft, college basketball has the stage to itself: Three on the Way Up... Three on the Way Down... Could Go Either Way... etc.  |
Sports Central February 12, 2008 Seth Doria |
32 Days to Selection Sunday In lieu of a verbal highlight reel of the past week, a look at the general landscape of college hoops with barely more than a month until the madness  |
Sports Illustrated November 13, 2002 Grant Wahl |
When is a forfeit not a loss? If Michigan 'vacates' games, record books don't change.  |
Sports Illustrated March 21, 2001 Alexander Wolff |
And then there were 16 Musings on the first week of NCAA tournament play  |
Sports Central January 22, 2006 Alan Rubenstein |
Lineage Important to Success at Top Programs Kansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina have a basketball lineage that dates back to the sport's founder, Dr. James Naismith.  |
Sports Illustrated November 22, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Best of the last decade College basketball Q&A  |
Salon.com March 19, 2001 King Kaufman |
The beat-down round The upsets of the NCAA Tournament's first two days give way to order being restored over the weekend, but there are still some thrills.  |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2001 |
Chat Reel: SI's Tim Crothers Maryland is still the pick to win it all in the NCAA...  |
Sports Illustrated January 10, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Yet another obstacle for Arizona You don't have to be an Arizona supporter to hope that, for the Wildcats' sake, they're able to simply play basketball for the rest of the season. I spent most of last week in Tucson, and from talking to the players and coaches, the past month has been excruciating...  |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2001 Seth Davis |
Bubble Trouble With so many bids to the NCAAs locked up, the fight for the remaining few will be frenzied...  |
Sports Illustrated January 17, 2001 Grant Wahl |
The country's top gun Whenever he plays, I can't wait to see the box score the next day. Whenever he shoots, which is very, very often, I can safely expect that it won't go in. But you know another one's coming, just as surely as your next breath, and every so often he'll make a few...  |
Sports Illustrated December 11, 2000 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel: SI's Tim Crothers Does Duke have what it takes to cut down the nets in April, without a strong backup for Carlos Boozer when he gets in foul trouble?... It's becoming clear that ACC teams play "softer" than teams from some of its rival conferences... etc.  |
Sports Illustrated February 21, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Forecast has been clear Aside from overrating Arizona and underrating Iowa State, I think I've done all right this season...  |
Sports Illustrated November 29, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Early-season hits and misses I try telling people there's no such thing as a Sports Illustrated jinx, and then it happens again. Beginning with the 1999 national title game, I've now been on hand six of the last seven times the AP's top-ranked team has gone down...  |
Sports Central March 29, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
Final Four: College Hoops Truly Gone Mad This year, we not only have the most unlikely Final Four in the modern tournament era (since 1980), but we have the annual coaching carousel spinning at frantic speed.  |
Sports Illustrated December 3, 2002 Seth Davis |
Kansas' problems are numerous Kansas, like every other college basketball team in America, has some weaknesses. What we didn't know was that those weaknesses were so numerous and so problematic.  |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2001 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel Virginia, Ohio State could do damage in the Big Dance...  |
Salon.com March 16, 2001 King Kaufman |
The Tournament, Day 1 A view from a couch: Three buzzer beaters in the NCAA highlight a day of underdogs hanging around, and sometimes winning.  |
Sports Central October 15, 2005 Seth Berkman |
Preseason Sweet 16 Power Rankings Everybody was raving about Duke this summer and it's hard to argue with the talent they have coming back.  |
Sports Illustrated December 20, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Don't bet on Knight in Vegas In light of the apparent lack of institutional control at UNLV over the basketball program, would the administration have any interest in a certain unemployed teacher/coach/disciplinarian who could still use his red-sweater wardrobe?  |
Sports Central August 11, 2005 Alan Rubenstein |
NBA Draft Changes NCAA Landscape Who enters their name into the NBA draft, who withdraws, and which players return or leave can have an impact on the college basketball landscape for the following two to three years.  |
Sports Illustrated February 8, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Ending the Jacobsen/Dunleavy debate They're both great players and I'm a moron for driving a wedge where there was no need for one...  |
Sports Illustrated January 22, 2001 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel Kansas is still very much in the hunt for the championship...  |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Let's give Stanford its due As a former (recovering?) East Coast basketball writer myself, I know there's a lot of ignorance about West Coast basketball. But some of the statements made about Stanford lately have been as unintentionally hilarious as Digger Phelps...  |
Sports Illustrated February 27, 2001 Seth Davis |
A season in review Before we kick off the greatest month on the American sporting calendar, here's a quick look back at the best and worst of college basketball's regular season...  |
Sports Central March 21, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Coaching the Cause Behind Weak First Weekend I love the NCAA tournament. And that's what makes this that much harder to say: this year's tournament has sucked.  |
Sports Illustrated January 2, 2001 Seth Davis |
Season has had its casualties Coaching major-college basketball has never been the most stable profession, but this is an unusually perilous time to be prowling the sidelines. The season isn't half over and we've already seen an inordinate number of casualties...  |
Sports Illustrated March 5, 2001 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel Trying to predict the NCAA Tournament seedings...  |
Sports Illustrated March 21, 2002 |
Picking through the Sweet 16 So I come home to Seattle for a couple days and they fire Bob Bender at U-Dub. The Huskies are a sleeping giant in the Pac-10, which is why they should hurry up and go after Gonzaga's Mark Few...  |
Sports Central January 30, 2007 Seth Doria |
Madness in the Making: Part I A look at teams from the Pac-10, SEC, Colonial, and Missouri Valley conferences.  |