Skip Myslenski

Scott May sat there, and watched. He watched Indiana, his alma mater, in a furious struggle with Ohio State, and he watched Calbert Cheaney, his linear descendant, in a similar...

Three months, that`s all. That is all the time that has passed since Michigan State was heralded as a championship contender, ranked right up there with juggernauts like Nevada-Las Vegas...

The one, Michigan`s Steve Fisher, is less than two years away from a magic-carpet ride that ended in a national championship. The other, Minnesota`s Clem Haskins, is less than a...

The date, Oct. 15, is one of college basketball`s totems, the little box on the calender that marks the opening of practice and symbolizes the dawning of a fresh season....

And now, with a break in the action, our annual offering of the arcane from the pages of college basketball press guides . . . - You`ve heard of tongue-twisters...

They rose and spoke, and their words echoed those uttered by the creations of that group of writers known as black humorists. No facts they forwarded, no points they made,...

They are, for college coaches, as necessary as oxygen, as valuable as a victory. That is just how important they view those various summer basketball camps, those camps that gather...

That steamroller propelled by the Presidents Commission hit its only pothole at this convention during votes on restructuring. That issue passed, in principle, but without two important provisos its proponents...

His old boss called shortly after Kevin O`Neill got back from Kansas, where his young Marquette basketball team had been buried by the Jayhawks, 108-71. ''Still alive, huh?'' Arizona coach...

The memory long should have resounded like a klaxon as each new basketball season dawned. For back then, in the fall of 1983, Purdue was picked to finish ninth in...