Paul Suellentrop of the Wichita Eagle begged the question yesterday with the release of the updated AP/ESPN polls: Should Wichita State be ranked?

Last month Michael Rogner wrote about the state of college basketball in Los Angeles. I live in Chicago, and while the second city may be pretty far down the list where college ball is concerned, there are some exciting developments on the Horizon (did you catch that?). The city’s current claims to fame pale in […]

It’s that time of the year. Really, already. Among the 345 D-I teams: 2,183 games have been played, 279,128 points have been scored, 436,600 player-minutes have been logged and selection Sunday is less than 11 weeks away. For most teams the end of the calendar year marks the beginning of conference play. For mid-major teams […]

Frank Haith, meet Meyers Leonard. Leonard is a college hoops oddity. It’s not just that Illinois’ 7-1, 245-pound sophomore big man who has to beat NBA recruiters off with a bat is good at what he does — Leonard’s block rate (10.4 percent) is 35th nationally, only a bit better than his defensive rebounding rate […]

I don’t know of any other mid-major team that, even after losing 54.3 percent of its minutes and 64.1 percent of its scoring in the offseason, could still be picked No. 1 in its conference preseason poll (in a fairly stacked conference) and No. 2 overall in the preseason College Insider Mid-Major Top 25. But […]

Inspired by today’s BuzzFeed post, The 90 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011, I present the 80 best college basketball twitter accounts you should be following. Non-humans and Twitter abusers weren’t included, sorry 330, 3 others 250-300, and a non-DI. They should be 11-1.” Nicole Auerbach (@CrackedSidewlks) Cracked Sidewalks is a Marquetter basketball blog that delves […]

Lots of stuff is at stake this weekend in college hoops: perfect records, intra-state rivalries and resume-builders and breakers. Here’s your look at the games on this weekend’s slate that matter. 1. Kentucky (8-0) at Indiana (8-0), Saturday, 5 p.m. EST, ESPN What’s at stake: Sportswriters love games like this. A storied rivalry (Kentucky leads, […]

Harvard picked up their 19th-straight home win yesterday when they bested Seattle by 10 points in a 70-possession game that was decided at the charity stripe. With some smart play in the paint (see what I did there), Harvard had 36 trips to the line to Seattle’s 18. Now they’re 8-0 for the first time […]

They’re the guys at the bottom of the box score — if they’re lucky to even make it that far. They pay to play the sport they love for precious few minutes when their team is either way up or way down, and they always have a legitimate chance of joining Club Trillion. But sometimes […]

This was the year. The year Northwestern was going to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. As the ‘Cats came off of their winningest season in school history all the pieces were there — kind of. Four starters were back, including an ever-improving John Shurna whose ability to drive inside […]

Somewhere between his tenure as head coach at Ball State and his current job at the helm of the Detroit Titans, Ray McCallum Sr. became a believer in up-tempo basketball. McCallum didn’t talk it up. He didn’t make claims he couldn’t support (unlike first-year Loyola head coach Porter Moser whose “up-tempo” team is averaging the […]