I'm already excited for UK next year - they're probably keeping Brandon Knight and Doron Lamb, also DeAndre Liggins and Darius Miller will be returning. That's four of their six which actually played. They'll probably lose Terrence Jones, though. And Josh Harrelson is graduating.

BUT, they have THIS RECRUITING CLASS coming in for next year. Four five star recruits, all of them in the Top 25 overall. And the #25 recruit, Kyle Wiltjer, is a 6'9" forward who just won the 3 point competition during the McDonald's All-American festivities.

And at the McDonald's All American game...

Gilchrist: 16 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal.
Davis: 14 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 blocks, 2 steals.
Teague: 9 points, 3 assists (but 5 turnovers - ick! Hopefully Knight stays!)
Wiltjer: 11 points, 2 rebounds, 1 block, 1 steal.

Not too shabby! :)

my guess is that many of your rookies are gone. apparently this year's draft class is pretty weak so some so so players could get some decent money. if many manage to stay you guys could be god-like.

The National Championship game was one of the worst ever, I actually turned it at points because it was just awful to watch. I felt embrassed for the sport with how bad the teams were playing, especially Butler. UConn didn't play great, they just sucked less than Butler. Even Kemba didn't have a great game. But Jim Calhoun wins his 3rd title and UConn did deserve it, they did play great throughout the last part of the season and then into the Big East tourney and March Madness. I was rooting for Butler but even though they lost, it's still amazing and awesome what they have done as a small school like that.

Kentucky, UNC, and Duke are going to be absolutely loaded next year. It's always interesting to see who leaves early for the NBA. In my opinion, the 1 year rule is completely retarded and makes no sense at all.

But yes, now time for the NBA playoffs to start soon and I am really excited. It's gonna be one of the best playoffs in a long time. The NBA has already entered a revival of sorts these past few years and it just keeps getting better.

I <3 the NBA playoffs so much. there is so much good bball to see.

Yep same here, I'm gonna have to post in the NBA thread my predictions but I'm still saying Lakers over Celts in 7 again. Everyone I know prefers college and I see the appeal to both games but the skill in the NBA game is just so much greater. It's almost playoff time and every team is gonna be going full throttle for every game. Shaping up to be some pretty good 1st round matchups for once too. I expect most of the higher seeds to win, but after the 1st round is over with it's nothing but great, great matchups.

The thing is, Doron Lamb's draft stock is really low, and I don't know that he'd go when he'd probably not get drafted until the second round this year. Miller and Liggins are the type of guys who are going to play all four years - both of them are juniors right now and will be seniors next year, so I'll wager they'll stay.

Jones probably won't stay. I've pretty much known he was one and done from the get-go.

The thing about Brandon Knight, though, is that he's going to be academically a junior at the end of this semester. He's got a 4.0 GPA, and I don't see that he'd have worked so hard at getting superb grades and pushing himself academically if he didn't intend to stay at least one more year...because I think that he could actually graduate next year, if he takes classes in the summer. I figure UK has one more year out of Brandon Knight. I really can't see him going pro before getting his degree when he's so serious about his academics.

I guess not. Gone are Liggins and Knight, everyone else is back(save seniors and turkish people). I wonder what would've happened if Kanter played this past year.

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Basketball is the most preferable game by youngsters in college days.This is the only sport in which boys is interested in.Most probably boys bunk their lectures to play this game.

Sources: Bruce Pearl, ex-Tennessee Volunteers coach, to receive show-cause penalty - ESPN

This pisses me off so much. The infraction was so minor and 99% of other coaches wouldn't have the integrity to come clean about it. I guess that seals the deal: Pearl will be going to TV.