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Exclusive: Drew Gordon on Why He's Leaving UCLA

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. Drew Gordon is a 6-foot-10 college basketball star and NBA prospect, but the player who was once the big hope of UCLA's basketball program is now leaving Westwood. We caught up with him for an...

Gordon's Conduct, Clashes With Howland Led to Transfer

UCLA center Drew Gordon may have worn out his welcome around Pauley Pavilion, which made his seemingly abrupt departure Tuesday from the basketball program all but inevitable.Bruins head coach Ben Howland released a statement saying, "We both have decided that it is in the best interests of our program and Drew that he...

Sports Greats Past and Present Get Together for a Great Cause

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. For the past nine years the Harold Pump Foundation, created by David and Dana Pump (known as the gurus of high school and college basketball) has raised over $3.5 million dollars to fight...

College Basketball's Top 25 Coaches

In an effort to talk about something college basketball-related other than scandals in the summer, let's talk best current coaches. We'll attempt to order the top 25 current coaches in the nation. This is about the present and the future, not the distant past. What a guy did in the mid-90s doesn't matter near as much as...

Bracketology Busters: Beware the Bruins

Each week, ESPN's Joe Lunardi predicts the NCAA tournament field if the season ended today. While he's good at this, Lunardi only focuses on past performance, and wins and losses. Bracketology Busters looks at which teams should be expected to perform significantly better or worse than their projected seeds. This week...

BenHowland News From the Web

05/18/12 A dust-settled forecast for Pac-12 hoops, 2012-13 Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA College basketball's spring - which is just as eventful as the regular season for some teams - is virtually over.
05/07/12 UCLA: Realistic Expectations for the Bruins' 2012-13... Source: Bleacher Report After nearly three seasons of hand-wringing, remote throwing, and yelling at the TV over their team's foundering play, UCLA fans have suddenly had every reason to leap and shout in recent weeks.
04/24/12 CBS Sports: Parker's pick of Bruins boosts Howland's... Source: The Mid-Majority Ben Howland felt good and confident when he gathered with his staff in the UCLA video coordinator's office Monday afternoon to watch the program's final recruiting target announce his college decision via a press conference streamed live on the World Wide Web. But did he know?
04/18/12 UCLA's road to recovery includes two All-USA recruits Source: USA Today If anyone needed to pull a rabbit out of his blue and gold hat, it was UCLA men's basketball coach Ben Howland.
04/16/12 UCLA coach Ben Howland expected at Withrow on Tuesday... Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati OH UCLA men's basketball coach Ben Howland is expected to be at Withrow around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Withrow coach Tyrone Gibert.