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• #5 Florida 90, Georgia 72. Gators push it to 14-0 by hammering the Bulldogs. Currently, there's not a ranked team on Florida's schedule other than Kentucky, and I'm not sure if they should count. • #12 Maryland 70, Miami 84. Miami hits 12-of-19 three balls to beat the Terps. Nice win, but I'll nee...

by mjdeadspin|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Illinois Joins The Ranks Of The Defeated

That nasty Iowa defense spent the day sweating Dee Brown into a 2-of-14 performance from field, holding him to just six points and polishing off a 63-48 Iowa victory....

by mjdeadspin|Illinois Fighting Illini

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Kentucky Pounded By Kansas

Unlike everyone else, Kansas and Kentucky have refused to play within their conferences today, and in fact, Kentucky appears to have refused to play basketball at all. They're getting absolutely pounded by the Jayhawks, 73-44 with about a minute left to play....

by mjdeadspin|Kansas Jayhawks

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Jamar Smith Fever, People: Catch It

Our father knows us very well, so when we went home for the holidays, he bought us the best gift we can remember receiving: A Illini jersey T-shirt of Jamar Smith. Who's Jamar Smith, you ask? Oh, you'll know very soon. He's the Illini's freshman shooting guard whose 3-point touch is like a tip-in....

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

They Must Draw 6,000 Fans, Or God Will Call Them Home

So we were watching the Illini's 89-64 victory over Southeast Missouri State last night — we have the ESPN Full Court package; you honestly do not want to know how much money we give that network — and when it was over, we flipped around the other games. It was a bad Full Court night; nothing but ...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

End Of Days For Quin Snyder

Well, OK, we're back in brittle, frighteningly cold South Central Illinois right now — where, unlike, New York, we at least didn't have to walk to work — and we watched that Illini destruction of Missouri last night. It was so brutal that we took less joy in the victory than sympathy for Missouri,...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Back Home For Braggin' Rights

Every family has its tradition over the holidays, and this is ours: We go back to our hometown of Mattoon, Illinois to watch the annual Busch Braggin' Rights college basketball game between our beloved Illini and the Missouri Tigers. It might seem silly to those weaned on the opposite coasts, but ...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

The Mind Of The Kentucky Fan

It's noon on a Saturday, you're a junior at the University of Kentucky and the game starts in two hours. You'll be close enough to the court that, if you hit just the right point, you could be on the TV. It's time to make your voice heard by the masses. But what to say? What to say?...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Athlete Run-In: El-Amin And His Sandwich

We always loved former Connecticut point guard Khalid El-Amin, because we always like point guards who are shorter than us yet still weigh more. Today's first athlete run-in story is about our man Khalid. It comes from Eric in New Hampshire....

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Paging Dr. Naismith ...

As you may have heard, they had a basketball game at Princeton on Wednesday night, with Monmouth taking a hard-fought 41-21 victory over the Tigers. It was the lowest-scoring NCAA Division-I game since the advent of the 3-point line in 1986 — and possibly since 1913, when college basketball opened...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

NCAA Basketball - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinAdam Morrison is a hero

"Major onions" was how Bill Raftery described it. The play-by-play guy ended the telecast by calling Morrison "the best college basketball player in the country." He may be that, I don't know, but I think JJ Redick's 41 points against the #2 team in the nation at least leaves the issue open for deba...

by mjdeadspin|Gonzaga Bulldogs

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Mizzou escapes the mighty Islanders

Despite leading for most of the second half, the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders weren't able to pull off the upset against Missouri. Jimmy McKinney hit a jumper with 10 seconds left to put Missouri ahead, but the Islanders couldn't capitalize and missed the potential game-winner at the buzzer....

by mjdeadspin|Missouri Tigers

|Tue Jun 18 2013

An all-around ugly day for Texas

The black jerseys, the blowout against Duke... and it's probably not going to get better when Vince Young comes up short this evening. Sorry fellas. More poetry......

by mjdeadspin|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

#1 vs #2

As a salute to J.J. Redick, all of today's posts about the Duke/Texas game will be in poetry form. You may not know this about me, but I consider myself a master of the limerick....

by mjdeadspin|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Rock (Expletive) Jayhawk

Well, when your supposedly legendary franchise has started the season 2-3, you just lost at home to a team from the WAC and your head coach boss thinks he's actually fooling anyone with that toupee ... sometimes all that will leave you in a foul mood....

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Bruce Weber's Lawn Exploits

Well, we won our bet and we have made our post. It occurs to us that if Illinois can win over Xavier on Saturday, the Illini will likely be in the top 10, and we are less than convinced they belong in the top 10. But that's all technical talk; you can get that from Andy Katz, along with a consider...

by Leitch|NCAA Basketball - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinCollege Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

NCAA Basketball - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinThe Rematch That Isn't, Not Really

The college basketball season really gets going tonight, as our beloved Big Ten takes its ritualistic beating in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, one of the few things ESPN does every year that makes us smile. And the centerpiece game is, of course, the "rematch" of last year's national championship gam...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Our Own, Demented Version Of "Switched At Birth"

Because in a month we're going to be the only people who remember the show, we feel obliged to point out — per a reader's excellent, perceptive eye — that ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas and Will Arnett's ridiculously funny "Gob" from "Arrested Development" look so much like each other t...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Athlete Run-Ins: Another Duke Miracle

Today's first athlete run-in story is one we're sure most of you will enjoy. Why? Because it makes fun of a Duke guy! Everybody loves those!...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Angry Man In A Funny Shirt

We know it's almost holiday time because there's an inexplicable Monday afternoon college basketball game. We're going to try to tear ourselves away from CNN's monthly let's pretend we're not rooting for a live plane crash because it would be outstanding television to watch Michigan State play Cha...

by Leitch|College Basketball

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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