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NBA free agents: Team-by-team lists for 2022 and 2023
Still, superstars like Bradley Beal, James Harden, Kyrie Irving and Russell Westbrook could become free agents if they don’t sign extensions between now and June. Here’s our team-by-team look at all the players who can and will hit free agency over the next two seasons. Key: Restricted = restricted free agent; player = player option; […]
Continue readingSales Pitch discussion — How Baylor became Baylor, and can Kansas return to being Kansas?
Follow this link to read what anonymous coaches said about recruiting in the ACC, the Big East, the Big Ten, the Pac-12, the SEC, the AAC and the Big 12. Medcalf: I think it makes sense to put the spotlight on the immediate contributions of the program-altering transfers who led Baylor to its first national […]
Continue readingKentucky climbs to No. 5, Baylor still No. 1 in Way-Too-Early Top 25 update for 2020-21
And while it’s not going to be a smooth ride to the Nov. 25 start date, we’re officially less than one month away from the first games. Several things have changed since that initial top 25 — Creighton was No. 2, for example, while San Diego State and Colorado were also ranked before NBA draft […]
Continue readingWisconsin, Michigan State make moves in college basketball’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020-21
That gives us about a month and a half before we’ll know what the college basketball landscape will look like for the upcoming season, though players will announce their draft decisions before then, too. There are also non-draft decisions that will impact the rankings between now and then, with several noteworthy transfers still on the […]
Continue readingWho’s the top Player of the Year candidate in every conference?
It’s early February, so all of this could change, but we made an attempt to handicap the Player of the Year races in all 32 Division I conferences. Here’s the criteria we tried to emphasize: With at least a month of data to evaluate in most cases, we thought emphasizing individual impact in league play […]
Continue readingCollege basketball picks: Revisiting preseason predictions
In a wild season where not much has gone according to plan, ESPN.com’s college basketball experts this week issued some mea culpas for their worst preseason predictions … while taking a bow for a few that have worked out. Our group also made picks for the best games of the weekend, including the Auburn-Kentucky battle […]
Continue readingCollege Basketball Power Rankings: How the Big Ten could make March difficult
The Big Ten is likely to be the NCAA tournament selection committee’s toughest task come Selection Sunday, not just in terms of how many teams to include — right now, there probably are 12 teams that harbor legitimate hopes of making the dance — but seeding at the top of the bracket too. Because of […]
Continue readingCollege Basketball Power Rankings: Duke falls after win streak ends
It’s unusual when we don’t need to use the intro section to hash out the latest No. 1 debate. We discussed last week why Baylor jumped Gonzaga and moved to the top of the rankings, and a 2-0 week from the Bears didn’t do much to change that decision. But there was a third team […]
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