In that year, Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin ran away with both awards, blowing by Pittsburgh’s DeJuan Blair, Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet and the 2008 Wooden Award winner, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough. The top college guard that season, Davidson’s...

Connecticut says three players left school early between the 2007-2008 and 2010-11 academic years to pursue professional basketball. Those players were academically ineligible when they left, thus lowering the program's APR. The names were redacted, but...

Let’s be fair, Jeremy Lin has averaged around 3 points per game for his entire NBA career. To have a 25-7-6 performance is “magical” regardless of his race. I guarantee if Hasheem Thabeet (7’3″, 265lb 2nd pick in 2009 draft) were to have a 25 pt night...

Basketball multi-year Academic Progress Rate score reported during the 2011-2012 academic year would have been 921. The three Connecticut players who left early to turn pro during that timeframe, according to NBA early-entry lists, were Kemba Walker,...

"He's probably one of the most fearless point guards in the league. You watch him play. He's not that big, he's not that strong but he's got the heart of a lion." The 2009 draft will forever be known for Blake Griffin going first overall and for having...

Kevin McHale has given Lowry the ball and he's run with it. He posts big numbers every night despite the likes of Samuel Dalembert and Chandler Parsons starting alongside him, not to mention guys like Jordan Hill and Hasheem Thabeet coming off the bench.