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Mark Titus’s Triangle NCAA All-Stars: Good Players on Bad Teams

Michael Jordan in Space Jam, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez in The Sandlot, Icebox in Little Giants, and Jimmy Chitwood in Hoosiers all had one thing in common. Can you guess? It’s not that they were all sucked into a golf hole by a cartoon magnet and forced to play a basketball game against aliens so the Looney Tunes wouldn’t get kidnapped. That was just Jordan. No, the thing all those athletes have in common is that they were legendary players stuck on terrible teams.

(To the people who will inev...

Titus’s Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings

I’m starting a petition to have every free throw during college basketball broadcasts to be shown from the perspective of the shooter. Why? Because the hilarity of student sections using props to distract free throw shooters is at an all-time high. San Diego State started the big head ploy in 2002, and it seems that in recent years every college basketball program has caught on. Now, student sections across America are forced to be even more creative with their free throw distractions. During...

Mark Titus's Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings - All hail the ugly glory of MSU-OSU

All hail the ugly glory of Michigan State–Ohio State.

Mark Titus's College Basketball Mailbag, Part 2

Check out Part 1, here. Hit us with your NBA draft big board right now. — Peter J. Excluding Dante Exum, because you're out of your mind if ...

Mark Titus's College Basketball Mailbag, Part 1

Christmas was last week, but everyone knows the holiday essentially runs from Festivus to New Year's, so Merry Christmas everybody! My gift to you com...

Mark Titus's Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings - Ohio State is winning but Arizona stays on top

Ohio State is winning and we don't have to hear about Aaron Craft's toughness every 45 seconds. Is this paradise?

Mark Titus's Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings - The rise of Wisconsin and a crazy week in college basketball

The rise of the Wisconsin Buzzcuts and a topsy-turvy week in college basketball.

Mark Titus's Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings - Is Arizona the best team ever?

Let's get way ahead of ourselves: Is this the best Arizona team ever?

Mark Titus ACC Preview - Duke is hard to hate this year

Duke is hard to hate this year. We are through the looking glass, people.

Kansas looks to win its 10th straight Big 12 championship with Andrew Wiggins

Kansas looks to win its 10th straight conference championship with Andrew Wiggins.