NIU's Dennis Gates in Running for Nevada Job

Scout.com has learned that Northern Illinois associate head men's basketball coach Dennis Gates is a candidate for an assistant coach position at the University of Nevada-Reno.   Full Story

The Reno Gazette-Journal reported Friday that athletic director Cathy Groth and men's basketball head coach David Carter held a press conference Thursday concerning the aftermath of freshman forward Ahyaro Phillips' dismissal from the team.   Full Story

Fresno State is the only team in the WAC that has yet to win a conference game. Nevertheless, the ‘Dogs are showing they can compete with the conference’s best on the road. Despite trailing by 15 in the second half, FS had a chance to beat Nevada in the final minute of the Wolf Pack’s 65-60 win on Saturday night in Reno…   Full Story

Was this the biggest win for Idaho since joining the Western Athletic Conference four years ago? Easily. First-year head coach Don Verlin has done a stellar job getting this rebulding effort for the Vandals (7-7, 1-0 WAC) started on the right foot. Transfer LUCIANO DE SOUZA and point guard Mac Hopson led the Vandals with 16 points each, as Idaho beat five time WAC champion Nevada in Reno.   Full Story

The four top teams at the beginning of the season are also the quartet that's left standing. For the first time in the history of the NCAA tournament, the four No. 1 seeds advanced to the Final Four.   Full Story

The Fresno State Bulldogs are in Las Cruces to take on the Nevada Wolf Pack at 5 p.m. PT tonight in a first round WAC tournament game. The game versus the second seed comes just five days after dropping the regular season finale at home to the Wolf Pack, 76-63. Nevada was able to ruin senior night in Fresno, and now they have the opportunity to finish their season for good.   Full Story

The Fresno State Bulldogs will take on the Nevada Wolf Pack Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno. Nevada brings a 12-7 record into the contest while the Bulldogs enter with a 10-11 overall record. The Wolf Pack has won the last three matchups between the two schools. Nevada has won 31 of its last 34 games at home.    Full Story

Ramon Sessions who formerly starred at Myrtle Beach High is officially headed to the NBA as he was drafted in the 2nd round on Thursday night. Come inside for the details.   Full Story

It seemed almost inevitable that a Billy Donovan departure from Gainesville would be because of an NBA suitor, not a college rival. So where does that leave the University of Florida hoops fortunes? Let's don't forget the Gators went to a Final Four two years before Donovan showed up.   Full Story

Team Six defeated Team Three 89-87 to improve to 2-0 in the Orlando pre-draft camp. The game saw ten lead changes and 13 ties.   Full Story

Six players scored in double figures as Team rolled to a 106-84 win over Team 5 in the Orlando Pre-draft camp. Team 6 never trailed and shot 56.1% from the field in the win.   Full Story

We still don't know which players are departing early for the NBA. And we don't know if one coach of note is leaving his current place of employment. But what we do know better than anyone else is the impact that the young kids coming into the programs will have.   Full Story

Sure, "mid-majors" VCU and Winthrop had some impressive first-rounds. But, for the most part, Thursday and Friday play went according to script. And that means the "power conferences" pretty much ruled the first round.   Full Story

One year after George Mason made its magical run to the Final Four, we're here to tell you that it could happen again. The Patriots didn't make the field this time around and there aren't as many at-large mid-majors, but we still think it's possible.   Full Story

In part one of Bracket Building, Kyle Lamb introduces a six-year mock committee to replicate the NCAA Tournament selection process. In part two, the mock committee discloses the results of the first ballots and also find out some interesting numbers at how the AP poll correlates more closely to seeding in the NCAA Tournament than you probably imagined.   Full Story

Ramon Sessions took his game out West and is seeing a great deal of success for the nationally ranked Nevada Wolfpack. Sessions is now being hailed as one of the country's top point guards. Come inside and find out all the details.   Full Story

Ramon Sessions went almost half way across the country to play D1 college basketball and the youngster from Myrtle Beach High School is having the last laugh as he's become a force for the Nevada Wolfpack. Inside an update on the former SC prep star as he helps Nevada into the upper echelon of college basketball.   Full Story

As conference play is set to get into high gear, there isn't much clarity in college basketball. However, this much is clear: The race for National Player of the Year is wide open.   Full Story

After a week in which North Carolina and then Florida was knocked off, it meant someone else was going to be No. 1 in the Frankhoops.com Top 25 this week. With a EA Sports Maui Invitational championship trophy safely stored away back on the mainland in Westwood, the owner of that rating, for the time being, now resides in Pauley Pavilion.   Full Story

It flew under the radar, off the published schedules of both schools and closed to the public. But we are learning pieces of what transpired when Stanford Men's Basketball drove to Reno on Friday to scrimmage against #24-ranked Nevada. 7'0" freshman center Robin Lopez matched up against 6'11" super senior Nick Fazekas, and Stanford's team captain played fewer minutes than you maybe expected.   Full Story

The Super Bowl, and the sea of hyperbole that engulfed it, has mercifully come to close. That can only mean one thing: It's full-tilt college basketball, all the time, from now until the Final Four! And you will be forgiven if you peruse an NBA box score on occasion.   Full Story

If you're in the moody for some basketball appetizers before the Super Bowl main course on Sunday, you're in luck this week. There are some matchups that good prove "super" in their own right.   Full Story

ATHENS - Josh Kendall's take on Georgia's upcoming game with Nevada.   Full Story

A wide man – either George Bernard Shaw or maybe it was John Wooden – wrote, “Youth is wasted on the young." And sometimes that youth ends up scattered all over a basketball court for their opponent, a national TV audience, and 16,300 people to see.   Full Story

That was a tough one. KU had a big chance for a "coming out" party, and we just couldn't quite get it done.   Full Story