My college basketball power rankings for this week are now posted on FoxSports.com. With most teams completing semester exams and other academic work, there weren’t many games last week. Our top 11 teams are all the same as last week. Not much change overall. Kansas cut down on turnovers, beat New Mexico and made the […]

Barry Hinson is a good basketball coach and an even better guy. He had good runs as head coach at Oral Roberts and Missouri State. He’s a Bill Self guy and when he was fired at Missouri State, Self added Hinson to his staff at Kansas as director of men’s basketball operations. Those who follow […]

Pay Heed college basketball, the NCAA has named Allen Fieldhouse the loudest, most intimidating arena in college basketball. That’s not exactly news to Kansas fans – or the opponents who have played there the last two decades or more. The Phog is where I learned to love college basketball. I’ve watched many games at Allen […]

Guard Rodney Purvis, who transferred from North Carolina State to UConn last spring, has been scheduled for shoulder surgery Tuesday morning at the UConn Health Center in Farmington. The UConn athletic department announced Monday afternoon that Purvis needs the surgery for a left labral repair. In a press release Monday UConn announced, “The surgery, a […]

Just want to say thank you to Elissa Walker Campbell and the staff at The Big E Sports Show for inviting me on Yahoo! Sports Radio tonight. We talked about Kansas basketball and the struggles the young Jayhawks are experiencing early in the season, heading into Saturday’s game against New Mexico. And, of course, we […]

Quite a bit of movement this week in my college basketball power rankings, posted today on FoxSports.com. Arizona is the new No. 1, followed by Syracuse, Ohio State, Louisville and Michigan State in the top five. Michigan State, No. 1 last week, dropped four spots after that home loss to North Carolina. The Tar Heels […]

My college basketball power rankings for this week have been posted on FoxSports.com. Michigan State remains No. 1 but Arizona moves up to No. 2. The big winner this week is Syracuse, up six places to No. 3 after winning the Maui Invitational and handling Indiana in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Florida takes a tumble, […]

STORRS, Conn. _ The Florida Gators tugged on Shabazz Napier’s cape. They trapped him, forced him to lose control of his dribble, and then coaxed him into an off-balance jump shot that had zero chance of dropping through the basket. The hopes and dreams of the Connecticut Huskies probably should have died right there. But […]

Sean Levine of Rock Chalk Sports Talk on KLWN 1320 in Lawrence, Kan., interviews author Ken Davis about his new book, “100 Things Kansas Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” Recorded Nov. 27, 2013. Here’s the link: https://soundcloud.com/kendavis55/rock-chalk-sports-talk.