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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...

Nation's Best Coaching in Big Ten

In 2008, the Big Ten sent only four teams to the NCAA tournament. None reached the Elite Eight The Big Ten toiled down with mid-majors in conference RPI and were nationally maligned as the "Average 11." This past season, however, the league enjoyed a resurgence. It ranked only behind the ACC in conference RPI. Seven...

Classic Badger Ball Sparks an Upset

So you want to know what Wisconsin basketball is all about? Look no further than the second half of the 12th-seeded Badgers' 61-59 first-round overtime win over Florida State late on Friday night, a win culminated by Trevon Hughes' acrobatic three-point play with just two seconds left in the extra session.Wisconsin trailed...

Badgers Dancing on Michigan's Grave?

For one half, the Michigan Wolverines were all but trying on their dancing shoes. One half later, they were all but watching Wisconsin waltz into the NCAA tournament. Michigan's DeShawn Sims-Manny Harris combo did all it could to build on the Wolverines' win over Purdue Thursday, but Wisconsin turned the Wolverines away...

The Big Ten: Halfway Point Roundup

With just over a month in the books and most teams having played about half their conference schedule, let's check out the big boys of the Midwest. We're seeing a slight upheaval when it comes to traditional powers, as Indiana and Wisconsin sit in the bottom third of the standings, Northwestern is respectable, and Penn...

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05/22/12 Andy Baggot: UW provides test cases for transfer rule... Source: Wisconsin State Journal - Madison WI NCAA president Mark Emmert believes something needs to be done to make transfer rules less onerous for Division I student-athletes, an attitude that likely puts him in conflict with most, if not all, coaches regardless of sport.
05/15/12 Grad transfer rule should be celebratedânot... Source: Sporting News When the hierarchy of the National Association of Basketball Coaches met recently to discuss whether the NCAA should overturn the graduate transfer rule, they held their discussions in private.
05/14/12 Virginia's Tony Bennett will return to Wisconsin for... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC Virginia's Tony Bennett got his start in college coaching working under his father, Dick, at Wisconsin more than a decade ago.
05/14/12 Luke Winn: Defending the three: A study of percentages... Source: Sports Illustrated Twenty-five seasons have elapsed since college basketball added the three-pointer, and still, there is no consensus on the optimal way to defend it.
05/11/12 1990-91 UW-Platteville Men's Basketball Team Inducted... Source: Wisconsin State Journal - Madison WI PLATTEVILLE, Wis. --The 1990-91 University of Wisconsin-Platteville men's basketball team, which was the first Pioneer team to win an NCAA Division III national championship, was the first squad to be inducted in its entirety into the university's Athletic Hall of Fame on Sunday.