This is a really interesting Final Four. Obviously Florida has the chance to achieve something unusual if they pull off two wins. Other than Duke’s 91-92 titles, not many other teams have won back to back. San Francisco did with Bill Russell of course, but Russell’s teams always won. And UCLA [...]

As Florida draws closer to the prospect of a repeat, guys like Bobby Hurley are going to get a lot of calls from the media. Hurley has been doing some reminiscing this week, and it’s pretty interesting to hear what he has to say. Unlike a lot of Duke people, Hurley is pulling for [...]

With the rather dramatic changes in basketball these days, Mike Nadel argues that John Wooden and Mike Krzyzewski would never have had a chance in today’s game. He could have added Dean Smith, who overcame a very rocky start at UNC.

It’s a bit early and who knows how he’ll be as a college player, but Trevor Booker’s brother, Devin, has also committed to Clemson. He’s a sophomore. He says he was a Duke fan until his brother became a Tiger.

Former Oklahoma star Wayman Tisdale found out, accidentally and in a blessing, that he has cancer. They caught it early and he expects to recover fully, which is good news. But what surprised us is just how well his musical career has gone: his latest album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s contemporary jazz [...]

Here’s the latest from Cash Michaels on Mike Nifong’s woes and the lacrosse case. Meanwhile, as you probably heard this week, Barack Obama suggested that an investigation into Nifong’s handling of the case was in order, which didn’t go over well with Alton Maddox, one of the attorneys for Tawana Brawley, who was disbarred [...]

Here’s the latest on the arrest of Sidney Lowe, Jr.

Here are some more links about the McDonald’s game, these from the Louisville paper.

In various coaching stories:  Billy Gillispie reportedly has reached an agreement to stay at Texas A&M;  Michigan is pursuing West Virginia’s John Beilein; the underrated Reggie Theus wants more cash to stay in Las Cruces (a stray thought – whenever Lon Kruger leaves UNLV, wouldn’t Theus be a natural there?); Tommy Amaker is getting some [...]

As far as fans are concerned, it’s all over but the waiting as coach Gail Goestenkors decides whether or not to accept an offer from Texas. She is set to meet with officials from Duke. We don’t have any firm inside information, but our sense is that Duke has a shot at retaining [...]