The high-profile college basketball analyst waxes poetic _ and offers some picks! _ during lunch in Lakewood Ranch. ...more

March 18, 2009

Leonard Hamilton has been working with an unsigned contract at Florida State the past couple of years, but that's about to change. ...more

March 18, 2009

The University of South Florida women's basketball team were not among the 64 schools to get an invitation to the NCAA tournament. ...more

March 17, 2009

Florida State's women are heading to the NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight year and Coach Sue Semrau has a bigger smile each time. ...more

March 16, 2009

It's NCAA Tournament time. The brackets are out and I couldn't help but smile when I saw the No. 9 seed in the Midwest Region. ...more

March 16, 2009

Southeastern Conference coaches and players spent all week, and a good part of the season, defending their league. ...more

March 16, 2009

A year ago, as they walked off the court after another early exit from the NCAA Tournament, Jon Scheyer and Gerald Henderson made sure to soak it all in. They didn't want to forget how much it hurt. They didn't want to forget how it felt to be denied a championship. ...more

March 15, 2009

My head hurts. Really. I like Dick Vitale, but enough whining that Saint Mary's got jobbed out of an NCAA Tournament bid. If that's the worst thing that happened Sunday when the brackets came out, then the right teams are in and it's going to be a terrific run to the Final Four. ...more

March 15, 2009

Insulted, belittled and ridiculed for a lack of quality throughout the regular season, Southeastern Conference men's basketball did little to change critical opinion Sunday afternoon in the SEC Tournament final. ...more

March 15, 2009

Mississippi State might have ended LSU's hopes of winning the SEC Tournament, but the Tigers triumphed before their 67-57 semifinals loss. ...more

March 15, 2009