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The transfer portal changes everything, but it's worth looking back on the last teams to repeat as NCAA champions. They fell off the map. Florida won in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, they lost all their starters and were in the NIT. In 2009, NIT again. In 2010, they were back in the tournament and...

Lots of talk about what comes after Drive for Five, Mix for Six. Some random reply on Twitter had it best -- Stairway to Seven. We need it to start trending

For weeks it's been a given on the mock brackets that UNC would be a 2 seed in our bracket. They're the only other eastern team with a shot at it, and they do take geography into consideration. There was a chance that Duke could have overtaken them, but that's out the window. Now, with Arizona...

Hey remember when we lost a postseason that time because the NCAA pretended to care about this for a while? Good times. https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-sp-uconn-sports-high-academic-scores-20220614-20220614-kigohh4advghtkkoxung2lh644-story.html

Kansas and Nova would tie us for titles with a win. Duke is Duke. Can't say I hate Hubert Davis, so I guess they're the choice? Second choice is probably Duke. Yes they're annoying but K is leaving so who cares.

And it was from a 6'0" guy? In the running, at least. This date nine years ago

Woke up my whole house with this one. I think it happened after midnight. Even with all the titles, this is my favorite highlight in UConn history. The pandemonium after the game-winner, Bob Bender's reaction, Raftery and McDonough with the call. This has everything

It's not quite the same as the others, but by my count this is our eighth time in the past 35 years ending our season with a win. Given how almost every team in the nation ends with a tournament loss in some form, that's got to be a record for that time frame. Four national titles One NIT title...

Monday night is about validation. Beating Kentucky is great but ultimately no one will much remember a 38-1 team or the group that beat them unless there's a title involved. Wisconsin has been a top-tier program for years, with conference titles and Final Fours and some really good players, but...

The similarities were pointed out throughout the year -- the post-Final Four letdown, the bad bounces, close losses, fatal flaws. But this team turned out to be nothing like that one. That team went out with a whimper, the loss to St. John's one of the Calhoun-era low points. This team fought...

Our all-time leading scorer is looking for work. Link Went 0-20 this year at Kolbe Cathedral this year after reaching SWC finals and Class L second round last year.

Memo to the rest of college basketball -- If you want to bury UConn, tonight is the night to do it. Because if we come out on top tonight, we've got a winnable game on Saturday at home, then potentially one that could redeem the entire season on Sunday, in front of the home crowd with maybe the...

Less than a minute from taking down Michigan. Derrick Dial memories come flooding back.

That year turned out pretty good. Sorry, that's all I've got.

What a day. Wake Forest falls to Iona, Pitt loses to Hawaii and Clemson goes down to mighty Gardner-Webb. But, you know, East Carolina is funny.

During the season that the UNC men’s basketball team made its run to the 2005 NCAA championship, its players accounted for 35 enrollments in classes that didn’t meet and yielded easy, high grades awarded by the architect of the university’s academic scandal. The classes, some advertised as...

Let's state first off how ridiculous it is that this is the fourth time in recent history we enter a season as defending national champions. And how despite the fact that none of those seasons after have gone great, it's a pretty good problem to have. So, the question is, where will this one...

No doubt a last-ditch effort to talk Daniel Hamilton out of UCLA Kevin Ollie‏@CoachKO_UConn Great to hang out wt the Living Legend @MagicJohnson before the Dodgers game.. Greatness on and off the court!! pic.twitter.com/AjhlKzUTZs

Hey remember when he came out with that "No NBA for me!" statement a while back and everyone was all "Why won't Ollie be like Calipari!!!"? Sources: John Calipari, Cavs were in deep talks before coach signed extension with Kentucky

Any precedent for a player of his caliber just forgetting how to play, basically overnight? It's not even like he's a guard and is missing a lot of jumpers or something. That would at least be comprehensible. But this? And yes, I've considered that it might be karmic payback for that...

Many questions still to answer on returning players, and a lot of good newcomers on the horizon. Still, it's worth wondering how Ollie is ever going to match this year's performance. The motivational speaker stuff, 10 toes in, going to the site of the Final Four halfway through the year, telling...

There isn't one, really, but I hate having to read all these references to the APR all over again. The sheer lack of understanding on this is dumbfounding, and the higher up on the media food chain you get the less coherent they are. UConn is the poster child for bad academics in college sports...

The story is mostly about Florida, but buried in there is this: "For a better parallel to UConn, I'll take Arizona's 1997 national champs, with their hydra-headed backcourt of Mike Bibby, Miles Simon and Jason Terry. The Huskies' Shabazz Napier is a more dominant presence than any of those...

Sad day. Nothing really against him; it's not his fault he won all the awards Kemba deserved. Still, a reminder of the idiocy of teams drafting players on the expectations that they'll be fan favorites, as was reported with this guy. It's not going to work out unless the player is, you know...

They were in it right to the end at Cincinnati a few days ago, and took SMU to the wire tonight, also on the road. Still an objectively bad basketball team and an awful loss on our resume, but they're showing signs of life, at least.

http://www.eurobasket.com/VideoView.asp?video=21516 This is from a year or so ago and it's about the most El-Amin thing ever, right down to the jumping on the scorer's table.

Who was Memphis missing tonight? Their three top scorers? Their top recruit? Some guy who got hurt with three minutes left? There must be something to delegitimize this. Memphis is a contender. Not a Final Four favorite maybe, but they have beaten some good teams. And us winning on their court...

Sure, we put up 13 points in a half, but it could always be worse. Andrea Bargnani took maybe the dumbest shot I've ever seen last night. And they wondered why a former No. 1 overall pick was so readily available this past offseason. Knicks won anyway, lucky for him.

Just end already. I want to see Bazz on SportsCenter.

So we have it now, right?

Providence freshman guard Ricky Ledo has declared for the NBA Draft, according to @2eZGang. And if you can't trust @2eZGang, who can you trust?

Rough start to their ACC tenure Adams to the NBA, Zeigler to transfer Link

Let's not leave the door open for a Syracuse run.

I guess that was the big moment so far, but mostly I'm seeing match-ups between BCS schools I don't care about and blowouts. This postseason ban is the worst. I'd take Northeastern in the NIT right now.

I still don't get it. Two at-large teams play for a 13 seed -- OK. Two others play for an 11 seed. But there are other at-large teams seeded lower than 11 -- Cal, Oregon and Mississippi are 12 seeds. So the committee is saying those potential 11 seeds are better than those teams, yet they...