Latest Men's Basketball Stories

• Ohio State's Koufos Enters NBA Draft

  Ohio State U. (April 22) — For the second straight year, Thad Matta's most prized recruit is leaving to enter the NBA draft.

• COMMENTARY: Testing NBA Waters Puts Marquette's McNeal In Great Spot

  Marquette U. (April 22) — There are many reasons to be envious of Jerel McNeal, whom it appears will make the logical decision at some point this week to enter his name into the NBA Draft.

• COMMENTARY: Rose, Beasley Lead NBA Draft Class

  U. Connecticut (April 22) — The bounce of a ping pong ball could alter an NBA franchise's fate for years. Last year, for example, it was pre-determined that two teams in the 14-team lottery would be declared winners while every other team would be losers. This was because Greg Oden and Kevin Durant were considered the only two franchise-saving players in the draft.

• Ex-Marquette Recruit To Follow Crean, Join Hoosiers Next Season

  Indiana U. (April 22) — Convincing recruits to join the 2008-09 IU basketball team was not supposed to be this easy for Tom Crean, but IU's new men's basketball coach has struck again.

• Jazz PG Williams Reflects On Illini Career

  U. Illinois (April 21) — It was arguably one of the greatest comebacks in Illinois history, maybe even NCAA tournament history. For most Illini fans, only the numbers 15 and 4 need to be mentioned when referring to the 90-89 overtime comeback win against the Arizona Wildcats in the 2005 Elite Eight.

• COMMENTARY: Cowboys Moving, But Not Improving

  U. Oklahoma (April 21) — For 18 years, I lived in the same house. My family never left. For 18 years, I never had to deal with the hassle of moving. And then I went to college.

• UCLA's Luc Declares For Draft

  UCLA (April 21) — A day after UCLA's starting center and one of its starting guards declared for the NBA Draft, its starting power forward announced that he'd be joining them.

• UCLA's Love, Westbrook Headed For NBA

  UCLA (April 18) — Kevin Love wore a suit and tie, smiled for the cameras and glad-handed the assembled media. Russell Westbrook wore a polo shirt, and said his piece shortly and succinctly.

• COMMENTARY: NBA Leaps Of UCLA's Love, Westbrook Are Well-timed

  UCLA (April 18) — John Wooden once said, "Be quick, but don't hurry."

• UMass Basketball Coach Replaces Sean Sutton At Oklahoma State

  Oklahoma State U. (April 18) — Travis Ford made a strong first impression as he was introduced as the new basketball coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Thursday afternoon at Gallagher-Iba Arena.

• Crean Names 2 Assistant Coaches

  Indiana U. (April 18) — IU head coach Tom Crean named two assistant coaches to his staff Thursday.

• Louisville's Delk Ready To Make A Name For Himself After Redshirt Season

  U. Louisville (April 18) — For the first time in his life, University of Louisville men's basketball junior guard Reginald Delk is hearing students refer to him as "Reginald" or "Reggie", instead of "Tony Delk's nephew" or "twin".

• Physical Defense Key, TCU Basketball Coach Says

  Texas Christian U. (April 18) — Conversations with players, coaches and future players alike all have one common term used to describe Jim Christian — hard-nosed.

• Mayo Speaks About Decision To Go Pro

  USC (April 18) — With the buzz of his expected decision subsiding, O.J. Mayo officially held his press conference Thursday at the Galen Center announcing that he would forgo his remaining eligibility at USC and enter the 2008 NBA Draft.

• UMass Reacts To Ford's Sudden Departure

  U. Massachusetts (April 18) — One week after saying he was '100 percent committed' to the Massachusetts men's basketball program, Travis Ford left for a higher-paying job at Oklahoma State.