Having earned their fourth SEC Western Division title in the last six seasons and posting their seventh 20-win campaign of the past decade, the top-seeded Mississippi State Bulldogs (21-9, 12-4) will begin competition at the 2008 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament in Game 7 Friday evening by taking on the winner of Thursday's first-round contest between Florida and Alabama.

Greg Oden, an American basketball player, currently signed to the Portland Trail Blazers, has returned on the floor after a microfracture surgery on his ailing right knee.

Campus today is even quieter. Many of my colleagues are at the ACC Tournament to watch our Deacs. They lost to FSU 70-60 today. I know this is not the way anyone wanted our season to end, particularly after the heartbreak of losing Skip Prosser in July. But our team will bounce back, and so will we.

Adam Emmenecker, the benchwarmer turned league MVP for No. 20 at Drake University's men's basketball team, had trouble believing the fans were chanting those three letters for him.

For the William Smith College basketball team, perhaps the hardest part of March Madness is the waiting. In less than 24 hours the worst part of the waiting will be over.

The University of Michigan women's basketball team dropped a difficult 69-67 decision to Wisconsin Thursday evening (Feb. 28) in Crisler Arena. What was more interesting is to see Michigan women's basketball coach Kevin Borseth produced one of the more memorable post-game anger and frustration.

The American Basketball Association announced that the league would return to Nashville, Tennessee next season.

Have you seen how Brittney Griner plays basketball? She is a new high school phenom that has already attracted many funs' hearts. Remembers this name Brittney Griner.

The Los Angeles Lakers bolstered their banged-up front line Friday, acquiring 7-footer Pau Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies.

This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the Harlem Globetrotters, the remarkably gifted and entertaining team known as the "crown princes of basketball."

Mario Chalmers led Kansas (KU Basketball team) with 18 points and made two key defensive plays in the final minutes to lift the third-ranked Jayhawks to a 76-70 win at Missouri in Big 12 basketball action here Saturday night.

VMI junior Chavis Holmes (Charlotte, N.C.) and UNC Asheville junior Kenny George (Chicago, Ill.) have been selected as the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Men's Basketball Co-Players of the Week for games played from Jan. 1-6, while VMI guard Austin Kenon (Virginia Beach, Va.) has been selected as the New Balance Freshman of the Week for the same span, it was announced today by the League office.