Was it an offensive foul? Yes. Was it Tarik Black's 3rd personal in the first half? Yes. Was it awesome? Oh yeah. Need a slow motion view? Of course you do.  

Typically the day's hustle play involves guys flying around the court, diving out of bounds, recovering and tipping from the back-side…. But the Clemson vs Gonzaga game is different. It's defense vs offense. It's Landry Nnoko vs Guy Landry Edi.  

1. North Florida's Parker Smith is one of the best shooters in college basketball. He's made 54% of his 3s this year, and over 40% for his career. It was an interesting battle in the North Florida – Florida State game, with FSU using Terry Whisnant and Michael Snaer to hound him all night, and […]

5. Grinnell's Patrick Maher played 15 minutes, which was the most played by any of Grinnell's 19 players not named Jack Taylor. Grinnell runs a system where they typically sub five guys at a time, but on this night Taylor played 36 minutes (more on that in No. 3). 4. This was a 123 possession […]

Junior Eric Fromm isn't a star for Butler. But he's a valuable role player. Good teams have role players who buy in. Against UNC the 6-8 Fromm was summoned off the bench and had to guard 6-10 manchild Joel James. In his very first seconds on the floor he bought his team an extra possession […]

1. Jordan Adams, UCLA The 6-5 guard has begun his career on a mission. He's not shy about shooting, but his effort is off the charts. Through four games he's averaging 23.5 points and 4.2 boards. He's struggled from the 3-point line (32%) but has more than made up for it by his ability to […]

1. After a wildly inefficient freshman season at Wake Forest which ended with a DWI, J.T. Terrell spent a season getting his act together at Peninsula Junior College and then transferred to USC. He's leading his new team in scoring, but once again is doing it solely through volume. Terrell is 7-19 on 2s (36.8%) […]

The sixth running of the Old Spice Classic starts on Thanksgiving Day in Orlando at ESPN's World Wide of Sports complex. Gonzaga headlines a bracket that includes Marist, Oklahoma, Clemson, Davidson, UTEP, Vanderbilt and West Virginia. All first-round games will be aired on ESPN2, starting with West Virginia vs. Marist at noon eastern time. At 2 […]

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Butler opened up the Maui Invitational with a 16 hour game against Marquette that had one of the best endings you will see this season. From

1. 5* recruit Marcus Smart had struggled from the field in the first three games of his career. But in front of a national audience he had his best game. He made 5-6 2s (83%) and 3-9 3s (33%). In a 1:12 span in the first half Smart scored eight straight for the Cowboys, giving […]

It's college basketball's longest-running regular-season tournament, and each of the last 46 NCAA Tournament champions has participated in it at some point in their history. But despite big-name tournament MVPs like Isaiah Canaan (2011), Dwyane Wade (2001) and Drew Gooden (1999), the Great Alaskan Shootout, now in its 35th year, is a shell of its […]