Cliff Alexander (Curie HS, Chicago) is this year’s winner of Mr. Basketball USA. Alexander received 7 of the 10 first place votes, becoming the second straight Kansas recruit to win the award after Andrew Wiggins won it last season. Curie HS won the Chicago city title over Jahlil Okafor’s Whitney Young team, and Alexander had […]

Duke’s Jabari Parker declared for the NBA Draft today, using an article he wrote for Sports Illustrated to do so. While I suppose I can’t blame someone for writing in Sports Illustrated when given the chance (and Duke’s basketball banquet was last night, so I can’t blame him for not doing it there) it does […]

Michigan’s Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III declared for the NBA Draft today in a press conference. Of these two, Stauskas’s decision is the easier to address: he was the Big 10 player of the year, shot 44% from three in each of his two years in Ann Arbor, and (in both years, but especially […]

There were questions surrounding Cuonzo Martin’s future at Tennesse all season, with a large portion of Vols fans wanting Bruce Pearl back. Martin certainly quieted that crowd with a run to the Sweet 16 this year (and finishing the season 7th in KenPom). But,

The Nike Hoop Summit took place on Saturday, and after watching the game and re-watching the game, I have some thoughts and impressions on the game, who improved their NBA Draft stock (yep, already time to start thinking about the 2015 Draft) and how the top college teams for 2014-15 stack up. 

Note: I am going off the assumption that pretty much everybody who is any risk at all to leave will leave: 1. Duke A group of teams will be virtually identical at the top, but I am taking the Blue Devils right away. They will be led by Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones, but they’ll […]

It seems like everywhere you look on the internet, you get talk of how tough Kentucky’s road to the title game was. And that’s fair: their opponents, seed wise, does make it the toughest road ever. But if we’ve seen anything lately, it’s how little seeds mean. I’m not here to say Kentucky got an […]

Today, Deadspin ran a story regarding Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim’s appearance on SportsCenter. Boeheim was asked about point guard Tyler Ennis, who recently declared for the NBA Draft, and Boeheim managed to say that Ennis “was a great college player” and “physically, probably could have used another year.” Here’s the thing. Boeheim probably isn’t wrong. […]

via ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, Wake Forest has hired Tulsa head coach Danny Manning to be its next head coach. Manning won’t have a ton to live up to, as his predecessor, Jeff Bzdelik, won just 17 conference games and 51 games overall in four seasons at Wake. Manning’s claim to fame as an assistant was […]

It was always going to happen this way, but today he made it official: Kansas’s Andrew Wiggins declared for the NBA Draft today at a press conference attended by Bill Self, his parents, his older brother Mitchell, and his now former teammates. At his press conference Wiggins remarked that the atmosphere and fan support around […]

The funniest and most frustrating part of the NCAA tournament is when people use three weeks (or in this case, two weeks) of single elimination 40 minute basketball games to completely erase everything from the previous four months. Kentucky shot 31.9% from three in SEC play, good for 11th in the league, but because they […]

The Sweet 16 is finally here, and even though Duke, Kansas, and North Carolina are all out, there are still quite a few compelling teams and games remaining. Below I rank the 8 games in the Sweet 16 using a highly scientific* method based on future pros, seniors who could be playing in their last […]

ESPN’s Brett McMurphy

For full disclosure: I am a Kansas fan so what follows will essentially be the word vomit ramblings of a madman 2nd seeded Kansas bowed out of the NCAA tournament on Sunday to a Stanford team that, while good, was just 5th in the Pac 12 defensively, and yet somehow held one of the best […]

Ohio State Sophomore Amedeo Della Valle