Phil Martelli's emotion, Brent Musburger's mistake, Tulsa's sophomore leaps, and other final thoughts on Championship Week. Read more »

Thursday featured 36 games in the nine major conference tournaments. Here is my running summary of all the games. Read more »

Wichita State has become one of the best programs in the country, regardless of conference affiliation. They want to get the game going up-and-down, where they have the advantage in terms of taking care of the ball and knocking down transition 3’s. Read more »

Which teams have performed above the best case I projected in October and which teams have performed below the worst case I projected in October? Read more »

Tubby Smith and Larry Brown's turnarounds, plus meditations on close losses and wins for Tom Crean and Jim Boeheim. Read more »

Jabari Brown has been one of the best players in the country who no one is talking about. Brown leads the SEC in scoring at 19.8 points per game and is making a case for Player of the Year honors within the conference. Read more »

The impact of the new foul rules on Kansas and Kentucky, the new key to Wisconsin's season, and Florida St.'s poor defensive rebounding highlight this week's column. Read more »

As one of only four undefeated teams in the country, Wichita State has the easiest path to an undefeated regular season with only Missouri Valley Conference opponents in the way. Arizona and Syracuse will face much tougher competition in the Pac-12 and ACC respectively. Read more »

Why I hate January NCAA tournament talk, players who should stop taking threes, what happens when you are down five players, Duke's struggles, and more. Read more »

With the best start in school history, Iowa State has been one of the most underrated teams ranked in the AP Top 25. Iowa State has played a quality schedule so far with home wins over Michigan and Iowa in addition to a road win against BYU. Read more »

Explaining how an Iowa vs Iowa St. basketball game can be better than Kentucky vs North Carolina, and how Mike Krzyzewski can show up on a list about coaching disappointment. Read more »

Although there wasn’t a conference crowned the champion of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge because of a tied 6-6 outcome, plenty of story lines and questions emerged from the event. We take a glance into some intriguing aspects seen in the challenge. Read more »

Aaron Gordon isn't putting up other-worldly stats, but he's been doing the little things on an Arizona team that is loaded with the presence of T.J. McConnell, Nick Johnson, Brandon Ashley, Kaleb Tarczewski and Rondae Holis-Jefferson. Read more »

Typically in college basketball, point guards see the most dramatic improvement between their freshman and sophomore seasons. Trey Burke, Michael Carter-Williams and Shane Larkin were prime examples last season. Now it's Marcus Smart, Marcus Paige and Jahii Carson. Read more »

With Joseph Young and a mixture of other key transfers, Oregon is looking like a contender in the Pac-12 conference. Read more »

It’s early in the season, but Adreian Payne might be the most improved returner in the country. With Payne and other key experienced pieces in the mix for Michigan State, the Spartans should hang around the top of the rankings for most of the season. Read more »

Does a team's performance in cupcake games matter? How did Marquette score 35 points at home? Plus a few words of praise for Michigan St.'s Branden Dawson. Read more »

On Obama watching Oregon State, VCU, Trae Golden, the search for upsets, Branden Dawson at the 4, Harvard Watch and more. Read more »

After receiving a ton of questions about how to interpret Best Case and Worse Case Scenarios in the projections, we run models on Kentucky and Michigan from last season as both were outliers. Read more »

Once players leave AAU basketball and enter college, their careers diverge quickly, even those with similar amounts of talent. Some declare too early, others too late. A perfect example of how our perceptions can change is to compare Jeremy Lamb to Victor Oladipo. Read more »