Team Personality: This may be the toughest team in college basketball. The Bruins aren’t tough in the “I’m going to beat you up,” sense, but rather tough in the way that your father showed you by going about his work, never complaining and carrying a confident (though not cocky) air of “I can whup you [...]

Team Personality: Experienced is a word that immediately springs to mind when thinking of Brigham Young. The Cougars carry six seniors and all of them get significant floor time. Each of the seniors knows his role, and that has allowed their younger teammates to grow into their own as the season has gone on. This [...]

Team Personality: This team is as athletic a team as you will find in college basketball. The problem is that they are still trying to be consistent with what head coach Tim Floyd is asking them to do; namely play superior defense and attack on offense. When Floyd took over for former coach Henry Bibby, [...]

Los Angeles is known for its beaches, its weather, Hollywood, and several less-than-savory items that don’t need to be mentioned.But, for the first time in nearly 30 years L.A. is now known as one of the foci of the college basketball universe. An incredible collection of banners hanging in the Pauley Pavilion rafters has a [...]

Nevada may not have needed the BracketBuster game against Northern Iowa in order to ensure and NCAA Tournament bid, but the Wolfpack surely removed any lingering doubt the NCAA Selection Committee may have had that they belong in the Big Dance. The Wolfpack took care of business with an emphatic second half performance, leading to [...]

A lot can happen between now and March 11, but the teams on this list have, short of an absolute implosion, pretty much ensured themselves a ticket to the Big Dance.  Now, I’m not talking about the so-called “big boys” here.  So, no UCLA’s and Oregon’s in this article; it’s reserved for the teams that [...]

In what has to be considered one of the most exciting games of the year, Stanford came back from 17 points down to defeat previously #2 ranked UCLA on Sunday. The game marked the final battle of the first half of the Pac-10 Conference season.In recent years, largely due to a lack of nationwide television [...]

Team Personality: This is a YOUNG team. Very young. Stanford starts one senior and then relies almost exclusively on freshmen and sophomores. The Cardinal likes to slow the pace down, at least to the point where they feel as if they are in control. The problem is that they can beat Virginia at UVA one [...]

Team Personality: Defense and precision…defense and precision…(say it with me)…defense and precision. An argument can be made that Washington State plays the toughest defense in the PAC-10, which means they play some of the best defense in the country. First-year coach Tony Bennett has continued his father’s tradition of strong, fundamental help-side defense that forces [...]